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Musées Maison d'écrivain en France
44 musées44 writers' houses open their doors in France to bring back to life the creative worlds of their authors. Jules Verne's House, the Romantic Life Museum and the Jules Verne Museum preserve the personal spaces and intimate objects of great writers. These places invite you to immerse yourself in the literary worlds and writing contexts that shaped French culture. Discover below the 44 museums listed on The Artwork Room.
44 musées
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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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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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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Maison de Pierre Loti
Pierre Loti's House is an art and history museum located in Rochefort in Charente-Maritime. It occupies the residence of writer Pierre Loti and offers an exploration of this person…
141 Rue Pierre Loti
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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 Zervos - Maison Romain Rolland
The Departmental Museum of Modern Art - Zervos collection is located in Vézelay, in Yonne, in the house where writer Romain Rolland lived. The museum houses a modern art collection…
14 Rue Saint-Etienne
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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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Maison natale Claude-Debussy - Musée municipal Ducastel-Vera
Claude-Debussy Birthplace is a municipal museum located in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, in the Yvelines, dedicated to composer Claude Debussy who was born there on August 22, 1862. Integ…
38 Rue au Pain
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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 d’histoire de Toulon et de sa région
The Jean Aicard Museum, also known as the Museum of the History of Toulon and its Region, is a house museum and artist's residence with a literary character. Located in Toulon in t…
10 Rue Saint-Andrieux
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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 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 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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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 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 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 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 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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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-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 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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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 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 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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