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Musées Littérature en France
62 muséesFrance is home to 62 museums dedicated to literature and the writers who shaped it. Jules Verne's House, the Museum of Romantic Life, and the Jules Verne Museum are among the major institutions of this heritage. These spaces preserve the worlds of French authors and offer a dive into their creations. Discover below the 62 museums listed on The Artwork Room.
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Maison de Jules Verne
Jules Verne's House, located in Amiens in the Somme, is a museum dedicated to French writer Jules Verne who lived in the city for thirty-four years (1871-1905). The museum occupies…
2 Rue Charles Dubois
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Musée de la Vie romantique
The Museum of Romantic Life is a house museum and literary museum housed in the Scheffer-Renan Hotel, in the heart of the 9th arrondissement of Paris. It is dedicated to the study…
16 Rue Chaptal
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Musée Jules Verne
The Jules Verne Museum in Nantes is dedicated to the writer and his literary universe. Inaugurated in 1978 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Jules Verne's birth, it prese…
3 Rue de l'Hermitage
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Château de la Bâtie d'Urfé
The Château de la Bâtie d'Urfé is a literary museum and house of famous figures located in Saint-Étienne-le-Molard in Loire. It occupies a castle in a rural setting and is part of…
1061 Rte de la Bâtie d'Urfé
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La maison de Colette
Colette's House, installed in the former château of Victor Gandrille in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, in Yonne, is a museum dedicated to the life and work of writer Colette. The museum…
10 Rue Colette
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Musée Arthur Rimbaud
The Arthur Rimbaud Museum is a literary museum located in Charleville-Mézières, in the Ardennes, Grand Est region. It is, in the sense of the Heritage Code. This establishment is p…
Quai Arthur Rimbaud
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Musée Victor Hugo
The Victor Hugo Museum is a house museum established in Rives-en-Seine, in Seine-Maritime, in Normandy. It is dedicated to the life and work of the writer Victor Hugo, falling into…
Quai Victor Hugo
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Maison Jacques Prévert
The Jacques Prévert House is a museum and historic site located in La Hague, in Manche, in Normandy. It is dedicated to the life and work of poet, screenwriter and artist Jacques P…
3 Hameau du Val
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Maison Elsa Triolet-Aragon
The Elsa Triolet-Aragon House is a museum located in the Villeneuve mill, a building from the late 12th century situated in Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, in Yvelines. The site, set wi…
Moulin de Villeneuve, Rue de la Villeneuve
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Musée Jean de La Fontaine
The Jean de La Fontaine Museum, located in the birthplace of the fabulist in Château-Thierry (Aisne), is a literary museum and a House of Illustrious Figures. Completely restored a…
12 Rue Jean de la Fontaine
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Centre Schweitzer
The Schweitzer Centre is a museum dedicated to the life and work of Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), a major figure of the 20th century. Located in Kaysersberg Vignoble, in Haut-Rhin…
126 Rue du Général de Gaulle
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Musée des Ursulines
The Museum of the Ursulines is a literary museum located in Mâcon, in Saône-et-Loire, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. It occupies a historic site marked by the presence of t…
5 Rue de la Préfecture
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Musée des Arts Asiatiques
The Jean Aicard Museum, officially named Museum of Asian Arts, is a house museum and artist's residence located in Toulon in the Var. It falls into the category of literary museums…
169 Littoral Frédéric Mistral
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Musée Colette
The Colette Museum is a literary museum located in Saint-Sauveur-en-Puisaye, in Yonne, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. It is established in rural territory and has held the…
Rue du Château
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Centre National et Musée Jean-Jaurès
The National Center and Jean-Jaurès Museum is a literary museum established in Castres, in Tarn, in the Occitanie region. It holds the label, according to the criteria of the Herit…
2 Pl. Pelisson
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Maison Ecole du Grand Meaulnes
Located in Épineuil-le-Fleuriel, in southern Boischaut (Cher, Centre-Val de Loire), the Maison Ecole du Grand Meaulnes is a museum dedicated to Alain-Fournier's eponymous novel and…
8 Rue Alain-Fournier
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Musée Verlaine - Auberge du Lion d'Or
The Verlaine Museum is located in the Auberge du Lion d'Or in Juniville, in the Ardennes, facing the residence that the poet once rented. It is one of the rare places frequented by…
1 Rue du Pont Pâquis
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Musée Stendhal - appartement Gagnon
The Stendhal Museum, located in the heart of the old town center of Grenoble in Isère, is dedicated to the life and work of Henri Beyle, known as Stendhal, a major figure in 19th-c…
20 Grande Rue
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Musée Européen Ivan Tourguéniev
The European Ivan Turgenev Museum, located in Bougival in Yvelines, is housed in the Datcha, a cottage built by Russian writer Ivan Turgenev from 1874 onwards on the Domain of the…
16 Rue Yvan Tourgueneff
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Musée Nivernais de l'Education
The Nivernais Museum of Education, housed in the former Victor Hugo school in Nevers, is dedicated to preserving and promoting educational heritage. Built up over four decades by e…
54 Bd Victor Hugo
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Musée Marguerite Yourcenar
The Marguerite Yourcenar Museum, located in Saint-Jans-Cappel in the Nord region, is dedicated to the life and work of the writer. Founded in 1985 and visited by Marguerite Yourcen…
55 Rue Marguerite Yourcenar
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Musée James Joyce
The James Joyce Museum in Saint-Gérand-le-Puy, located in Allier in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, traces the little-known stay of Irish writer James Joyce in this rural village. In Decembe…
1 Rue Maurice Dupont
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Musée George Sand et de la vallée noire
The George Sand and Black Valley Museum, established in La Châtre in Indre, is a literary and territorial museum. It preserves a collection of approximately 6,000 works and documen…
Square Raymonde Vincent, 36400 La Châtre, France
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Musée Rabelais
The Rabelais Museum, located at La Devinière in Seuilly in Indre-et-Loire, is the only French museum dedicated to François Rabelais, a major figure in French literature. Listed as…
Musee Rabelais Coteaux de, 37500 Seuilly, France
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Musée-bibliothèque Pierre-André Benoit
The Pierre-André Benoit Museum-Library is a literary museum located in Alès, in the Gard department, in the Occitanie region. It is dedicated to the memory and work of Pierre-André…
Rue Brouzen, 30100 Alès, France
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Musée Edmond Rostand
The Edmond Rostand Museum occupies the Villa Arnaga, the historic residence of the writer and playwright, located in Cambo-les-Bains in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Listed as a Histor…
Av. Dr. A. Camino, 64250 Cambo-les-Bains, France
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Musée Calvin
The Calvin Museum is a literary museum located in Noyon, in the Oise department, in the Hauts-de-France region. It has held the "Musée de France" label under the Heritage Code sinc…
6 Pl. Aristide Briand, 60400 Noyon, France
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Musée Pierre Corneille
The Pierre Corneille Museum is a literary museum and House of Illustrious Figures located in Petit-Couronne, in Seine-Maritime. It is dedicated to the playwright Pierre Corneille a…
502 Rue Pierre Corneille, 76650 Petit-Couronne, France
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Musée municipal Georges Borias
The Georges Borias Municipal Museum is a museum located in Uzès, in the Gard department. Housed in the former Bishop's Palace, it brings together multidisciplinary collections cove…
Pl. de l'Évêché, 30700 Uzès, France
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Museon Arlaten
The Museon Arlaten is a literary museum located in Arles, in Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur. Recognized as a museum of departmental cultural heritage in the Bouches-du-Rhône, it is par…
29 Rue de la République, 13200 Arles, France
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Musée Paul Valéry
The Paul Valéry Museum is a literary institution located in Sète, in Hérault, which honors the memory and legacy of poet Paul Valéry. It stands out for its remarkable contemporary…
148 Rue François Desnoyer, 34200 Sète, France
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Musée militaire et Erckmann-Chatrian
The Military and Erckmann-Chatrian Museum is located in Phalsbourg, in Moselle, in the Grand Est region. It falls into the category of literary museums and fits within a context of…
1 Pl. d'Armes, 57370 Phalsbourg, France
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Maison des Lumières Denis Diderot
The House of Enlightenment Denis Diderot is the only museum dedicated to the philosopher and encyclopedist Denis Diderot, a native of Langres. Housed in a mansion dating from the 1…
2 Rue Chambrulard, 52200 Langres, France
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Château-musée de Cayla
The Château-musée de Cayla is a house museum located in a rural setting in the municipality of Andillac, in Tarn, in the Occitanie region. Recognized as a Historic Monument, it is…
Lieu-dit : Le Cayla, 321 Impasse du Musée, 81140 Andillac, France
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Musée Jean Cocteau
The Jean Cocteau Museum, located in Menton in the Alpes-Maritimes, is a site museum and literary museum. It occupies the Bastion, a building that constitutes a heritage landmark in…
2 Quai de Monleon, 06500 Menton, France
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Musée-bibliothèque Pétrarque
The Petrarch Museum-Library is a literary institution located in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, in Vaucluse. It is among the houses of famous figures and is part of the cultural heritage in…
Rive gauche de la Sorgue, 84800 Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, France
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Musée Frédéric Mistral
The Frédéric Mistral Museum is a site museum and house of notable figures located in Maillane, in Bouches-du-Rhône. It is dedicated to the life and work of Provençal poet Frédéric…
11 Av. Lamartine, 13910 Maillane, France
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Musée Louis Médard
The Louis Médard Museum is a literary museum located in Lunel, in Hérault, in the Occitanie region. Labeled "" since 2017, it is completely free and accessible to people with disab…
71 Pl. Martyrs de la Résistance, 34400 Lunel, France
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Musée Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Jean-Jacques Rousseau Museum is a literary museum located in Montmorency, in Val-d'Oise, in Île-de-France. Labeled and classified among the Houses of Illustrious Figures, it is…
5 Rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 95160 Montmorency, France
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Musée Alexandre Dumas
The Alexandre Dumas Museum is a literary museum located in Villers-Cotterêts, in Aisne, in the Hauts-de-France region. It is dedicated to the life and work of writer Alexandre Duma…
24 Rue Demoustier, 02600 Villers-Cotterêts, France
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Musée du Mont-de-Piété
The Mont-de-Piété Museum is a literary museum located in Bergues, in the Nord department in the Hauts-de-France region. It holds the official label. The museum, whose name evokes t…
1 Rue du Mont de Piété, 59380 Bergues, France
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Bibliothèque-musée Inguimbertine
The Inguimbertine library-museum, established in Carpentras in Vaucluse, is a heritage institution. Located in a former hospital, it brings together collections of ancient literatu…
180 Pl. Aristide Briand, 84200 Carpentras, France
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Musée Tomi Ungerer
The Tomi Ungerer Museum is a center dedicated to illustration, located in Strasbourg in Bas-Rhin. It preserves a collection of 14,000 drawings entrusted by the illustrator to his n…
2 Av. de la Marseillaise, 67000 Strasbourg, France
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Musée des rochers de Sévigné
The Sévigné Rocks Museum is a site museum and literary museum located in Vitré, in Ille-et-Vilaine. Labeled "Musée de France" since 2003, it falls within the heritage framework def…
Les Rochers, 35500 Vitré, France
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Musée d'art et d'histoire Paul Eluard
The Paul Eluard Museum of Art and History is a literary museum established in Saint-Denis, in Seine-Saint-Denis. It is located in a historic building that houses a 17th-century clo…
22 bis Rue Gabriel Péri, 93200 Saint-Denis, France
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Pavillon Flaubert
The Flaubert Pavilion is a house museum dedicated to literature, located in Canteleu in Seine-Maritime. Labeled and recognized as a House of Illustrious Figures, it is part of the…
18 Quai Gustave Flaubert, 76380 Canteleu, France
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Musée Zola-Dreyfus
The Zola-Dreyfus Museum is located in Médan in Yvelines. It combines Émile Zola's house and a museum dedicated to Alfred Dreyfus, two figures linked by their shared commitment to t…
26 Rue Pasteur, 78670 Médan, France
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Musée Alfred Canel
The Alfred-Canel Museum is a literary museum located in Pont-Audemer, in Normandy (Eure). It is housed at 64, rue de la République, in the Cour Canel. The museum offers documented…
64 Rue de la République, 27500 Pont-Audemer, France
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Musée Barbey d'Aurevilly
The Barbey d'Aurevilly Museum is a house museum dedicated to the life and work of writer Barbey d'Aurevilly. Located in Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, in Manche, it is part of Normandy'…
66 Rue Bottin Desylles, 50390 Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, France
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Musée des Charmettes
The Charmettes Museum is a house museum and literary museum established in Chambéry, in Savoy, in a verdant valley near the city center. This beautiful 18th-century building is ass…
890 Chem. des Charmettes, 73000 Chambéry, France
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Maison de Balzac
Balzac's House is a literary museum located in Paris in the 16th arrondissement, at 47 Rue Raynouard. Labeled as a "Notable House" since 2004, it is classified among the Houses of…
47 Rue Raynouard, 75016 Paris, France
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Musée Pierre Corneille
The Pierre Corneille Museum is a literary museum and a House of Illustrious Figures located in Rouen, in Seine-Maritime. Housed in a former family property in Petit-Couronne, the m…
4 Rue de la Pie, 76000 Rouen, France
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Maison de Victor Hugo
Victor Hugo's House is a literary museum located at Place des Vosges in Paris. Labeled as a heritage site, it is among the Houses of Famous Figures. The museum occupies the writer'…
6 Pl. des Vosges, 75004 Paris, France
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Maison natale de Louis Braille
The birthplace of Louis Braille, located in Coupvray in Seine-et-Marne, is a museum that has been labeled since 2003. Classified among the Houses of Famous People, it is dedicated…
13 Rue Louis Braille, 77700 Coupvray, France
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Musée Balzac
The Balzac Museum, located in the Saché castle in Indre-et-Loire, is a literary museum and House of Illustrious Figures dedicated to Honoré de Balzac. It is part of a rural Tourain…
Rue du Château, 37190 Saché, France
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Musée de la franc-maçonnerie
The Museum of Freemasonry is located in Paris. As an institution, it specializes in the presentation and conservation of heritage related to freemasonry. The museum documents the h…
16 Rue Cadet, 75009 Paris, France
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Musée Descartes
The Descartes Museum is a museum space located in Descartes, in Indre-et-Loire, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It stands out as a House of Illustrious Figures and literary muse…
21 Rue Descartes, 37160 Descartes, France
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Musée départemental Stéphane Mallarmé
The Stéphane Mallarmé Departmental Museum is a house museum and historic house dedicated to the 19th-century poet. Located in Vulaines-sur-Seine, in Seine-et-Marne, it occupies the…
4 Quai Stéphane Mallarmé, 77870 Vulaines-sur-Seine, France
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Musée Charles-Louis Philippe
The Charles-Louis Philippe Museum is a house museum located in Cérilly, in Allier, dedicated to the life and work of writer Charles-Louis Philippe (1874-1909). A site museum situat…
5 Rue Charles Louis Philippe, 03350 Cérilly, France
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Musée Marcel Proust
Located in Illiers-Combray in Eure-et-Loir, the Marcel Proust Museum is housed in the house where the writer spent his childhood vacations with his aunt Élisabeth Amiot. This resid…
27 Rue Florent d'Illiers, 28120 Illiers-Combray, France
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Musée-fondation Louis Jou
The Louis Jou Museum-Foundation is a literary museum located in Les Baux-de-Provence, in Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur. Situated in a rural area. A foundation with a literary vocation…
8 Grand Rue Frédéric Mistral, 13520 Les Baux-de-Provence, France
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Musée Champollion
The Champollion Museum – Writings of the World is a House of Illustrious Figures located in Figeac, in Lot (Occitania). It is dedicated to the study of writing systems and explores…
Pl. Champollion, 46100 Figeac, France
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