Museums in the Midi-Pyrénées

Musée des hommes d'état et des Présidents
81100 Castres

The Jean-Jaurès National Centre and Museum in Castres, Occitanie, is a 19th-century municipal museum dedicated to the life and work of Jean Jaurès, housed in a historic building in the city centre.

Musée d'Art et d'histoire locale
31800 Saint-Gaudens

The Municipal Museum of Art and History of Saint-Gaudens, housed in a former neo-classical town hall of 1875, houses ethnological, ceramic and artistic collections emblematic of the Pyrénées Centrales, in Saint-Gaudens, Occitanie.

Musée de la poste, du timbre et de la carte postale
46700 Montcabrier

The Musée Le Livre et la Lettre à Montcabrier, in Occitanie, is a space dedicated to the history of books and writing, located in a preserved historical setting.

Musée de l'écriture
46100 Figeac

The Champollion Museum in Figeac, Occitanie, is dedicated to world writings and the memory of Jean-François Champollion, born in this city.

65200 Antist

The Museum of Daily Life in the Pyrenees, located in Bagnères-de-Bigorre, is a museum dedicated to local traditions and ancient crafts, such as pastoral life and weaving. It houses an authentic water mill on the banks of the Adour.

65700 Maubourguet

The archaeological museum of Maubourguet, in Occitanie, houses a Gallo-Roman mosaic of the fourth-fifth century, discovered in 1979 on the site of an ancient villa. The museum's centrepiece represents the ocean god surrounded by marine animals.

46330 Blars

The Musée de Plein Air du Quercy, located in Blars in the Lot, is a 20th century rural ecomuseum with reconstituted habitats and ethnographic collections on 10 hectares.

46330 Blars

The Museum of Prehistory Amédée Lemozi, located in Cabrerets in Occitanie, exhibits prehistoric archaeological collections of Quercy, from the local excavations and linked to the cave of Pech-Merle.