Museums in Poitou-Charente

Écomusée
79510 Coulon

The Poitevin Marais House, an eco-museum located in Coulon (Deux-Sèvres), traces the history of the Wet Marais and its inhabitants since 1988 in a 16th century seigneurial residence.

Musée des Arts de la ville
17100 Bussac-sur-Charente

The Musée de l'Échevinage, housed in a mansion of the 16th and 18th centuries in Saintes (Charente-Maritime), exhibits 19th-century fine arts and porcelain of Sèvres in the former communal house.

86320 Civaux

The Museum of Prehistory - Raymond Touchard in Lussac-les-Châteaux (Nouvelle-Aquitaine) exhibits paleolithic objects from local excavations, in a Renaissance residence transformed into a modern cultural space.

Musée d'Art et d'histoire locale
17100 Bussac-sur-Charente

The Dupuy-Mestreau Museum, housed in an 18th-century mansion in Saintes (Charente-Maritime), presents ethnographic collections on traditional life in Saintonge, Aunis and Angoumois until the early 20th century.

Musée des Arts de la ville
86000 Poitiers

The Rupert de Chièvres Museum, housed in a 17th-century mansion in Poitiers, houses collections of Dutch, Flemish and earthenware art, offering an immersion in the world of a 19th-century collector.

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.

79000 Bessines

The Donjon Ethnographic and Archaeological Museum, housed in a 12th century medieval fortress in Niort, combines Poitevin collections with local archaeological remains.

86400 Blanzay

The municipal museum of Blanzay, located in New Aquitaine, is home to Magdalenian and Gallo-Roman archaeological collections from 19th-century local excavations in an 18th-century house.