Museums, art and heritage in Occitanie

Cité de l'espace

The City of Space is a scientific museum established in Toulouse, in Haute-Garonne. Located in the Occitanie region, it is dedicated to space sciences and technologies. The museum offers an educational approach to the fields of astronomy, astronautics and space exploration. Its collections and exhibitions are aimed at a varied audience, from the youngest to adults. An institution rooted in Toulouse's cultural and scientific fabric, the City of Space contributes to the dissemination of knowledge in the aerospace sector.

Av. Jean Gonord

Musée Soulages

The Soulages Museum is a modern and contemporary art institution located in Rodez, in Aveyron. It was created from an exceptional donation and is organized around permanent collections comprising paintings on canvas, walnut hull stains and paintings on paper, as well as preparatory drawings for the stained glass windows of Conques and printed works. The museum also offers temporary exhibitions and has a documentation center as well as a bookstore-shop. It offers visits adapted to different audiences: individuals, families, groups and school groups.

Jardin du Foirail, Av. Victor Hugo

Musée Casa Pairal

Casa Pairal is a social history museum dedicated to Catalan folk arts and traditions. Located in the Castillet, a historic monument classified since 1889 that overlooks Place Verdun in Perpignan, the museum offers an overview of daily life and the intangible heritage of northern Catalonia. The original museum design, created in 1963 by Georges Henri Rivière based on the model of the National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions, was revisited in 2014 while preserving evocative spaces such as the kitchen of the Mas Gleix farmhouse. The third floor is dedicated to new forms of mediation and digital content. The institution also has a library and documentation center.

Pl. de Verdun

Château Fort Musée Pyrénéen

The Château Fort Musée Pyrénéen of Lourdes occupies a medieval fortress that successively served as a countly residence, military stronghold, and royal prison. The Pyrenean museum, founded in 1921 by Louis and Margalide Le Bondidier, offers an ethnographic and fine arts collection devoted to the history of the Pyrenees and the Pyrenean movement, which views the mountain experience as inseparable from aesthetic and cultural emotion. The castle grounds preserve defensive architecture that overlooks the city of Lourdes and the Sanctuary. The site also includes a botanical garden landscaped with sculptures and scale models of Pyrenean valley architecture. The museum offers self-guided and guided tours, as well as workshops and regular thematic events.

25 Rue du Fort

Musée des Dinosaures

The Museum of Dinosaurs is a scientific institution located in Mèze, in Hérault, in the Occitanie region. It is distinguished by its open-air operation and its integration into a natural landscape setting, combining museum space and natural park. The museum devotes its collections and exhibitions to paleontology and the history of dinosaurs, offering visitors direct contact with prehistoric themes. Its regional location places it in a geological and environmental context specific to southern France.

Rte de Pézenas

A historic waterway connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea, this 240-kilometer canal was constructed between 1666 and 1681 under the direction of engineer…

Inscribed 1996

This cultural site in the Tarn department of Occitanie comprises the episcopal cathedral, the surrounding fortified city, and the archbishop's palace, representing a remarkable…

Inscribed 2010

Located in the city of Nîmes in the Gard department of the Occitanie region, this Roman temple represents one of the best-preserved examples of Augustan architecture from the 1st…

Inscribed 2023

This cultural landscape encompasses the Causses plateaus and Cévennes mountains in southern France, representing an outstanding example of agro-pastoral land use that has evolved…

Inscribed 2011

Located near Vers-Pont-du-Gard in the Gard department of Occitanie, this Roman aqueduct stands as a significant example of civil engineering from the 1st century CE. Built to…

Inscribed 1985