Museums in Poitou-Charente

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 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'Art et d'histoire locale
17410 Saint-Martin-de-Ré

The Ernest Cognacq Museum, housed in a 15th-century mansion in Saint-Martin-de-Ré (Charente-Maritime), traces the history of the island of Ré through archaeological, artistic and historical collections, including a journey on colonial bagnes and Vauban fortifications.

Musée de la moto et du vélo
79500 Melle

The Monet & Goyon Museum in Melle, New Aquitaine, exhibits about 30 restored motorcycles, dating from 1920 to the post-war period, from the Gagnaire family collection.

86100 Antran

The Grand Atelier, a museum of art and industry in Châtellerault, housed in an old 19th century weapons factory, traces local history since Gallo-Roman Antiquity through various collections.

Musée de la céramique
17100 La Chapelle-des-Pots

The Saintonge ceramic museum, housed in a Charentaise house in La Chapelle-des-Pots, traces the ancestral art of pottery from the 13th to the 19th century. Closed since 2014, it preserves an oven classified with historical monuments.

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.

86500 Jouhet

The Montmorillon Art and History Museum, located in Montmorillon, Vienna, has preserved archaeological, artistic and ethnographic collections from donations and local excavations since 1937.