Museums in Poitou-Charente

Musée des Beaux-Arts
17000 La Rochelle

The Musée des Beaux-Arts de La Rochelle, housed in an 18th century mansion, houses European and Asian pictorial collections in New Aquitaine, in La Rochelle.

Musée d'Archéologie et d'Antiquité
86000 Poitiers

The Sainte-Croix Museum, built in 1974 in Poitiers, New Aquitaine, is a brutalist museum with archaeological and artistic collections, from Prehistory to the 20th century, in the former site of St. Croix Abbey.

Musée du cheval et des véhicules hippomobiles
17100 Saintes

The national haras of Saintes, founded in 1846 in a park of nine hectares, was an establishment dedicated to the improvement of equine breeds, located in Saintes in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, before its closure in 2018.

Musée de la Préhistoire
17770 Saint-Césaire

The Paleosite de Saint-Césaire is a prehistory interpretive centre located in Charente-Maritime, near the archaeological site of the Roche in Pierrot, famous for the discovery of the Neandertal skeleton 'Pierrette' in 1979.

Musée d'Art et d'histoire locale
17770 Saint-Césaire

The Bujoliers Museum in Saint-Césaire, Charente-Maritime, is an ethnographic rural museum that reconstructs 19th-century Saintonge life, including the Maison de La Mérine and local collections.

Musée du débarquement et de la libération
17000 La Rochelle

The Bunker de La Rochelle, the Second World War Museum, is a former German underground shelter located in this port town of New Aquitaine. He testified to the occupation and life of submariners between 1940 and 1945.

86000 Poitiers

The Dune Hypogee Museum in Poitiers houses a funeral chapel from the High Middle Ages, remarkable for its re-employment sculptures dating back to the 6th and 7th centuries.

Musée de la mer et de la pêche
17630 La Flotte

The Platinum Museum in La Flotte, New Aquitaine, is a monument dedicated to the Flotilla in Pertuis. Its history and period remain to be clarified.