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55 musées55 museums in France are dedicated to the homes of historical figures and their worlds. The Bonaparte House, the Robert-Houdin House of Magic, and the Joan of Arc Historial allow visitors to discover the living spaces and legacy of prominent figures. These residences transformed into museums offer a particular intimacy with French history. Discover below the 55 museums listed on The Artwork Room.
55 musées
Maison Bonaparte
National museum located in the birthplace of Napoleon Bonaparte in Ajaccio, South Corsica. The museum is recognized as one of the Houses of Famous Persons and is the most visited m…
Rue Saint-Charles
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Maison de la magie Robert-Houdin
The House of Magic Robert-Houdin is a museum located in Blois, in Loir-et-Cher, installed at 1, Place du château. It is dedicated to the history and practice of magic. The museum o…
1 Pl. du Château
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Historial Jeanne d’Arc
The Historial Jeanne d'Arc is a museum dedicated to the life and myth of Joan of Arc, located in Rouen in Normandy. Installed in the archbishop's palace, a historic monument situat…
7 Rue Saint Romain
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Maison Natale Charles de Gaulle
The Charles de Gaulle Birthplace is a local history museum located in Lille, in the North of France. Housed at 9 rue Princaise, it occupies the birthplace of General de Gaulle and…
9 Rue Princesse
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Maison Paternelle de Sainte Bernadette
The Paternal Home of Saint Bernadette is a museum located in Lourdes, in the Hautes-Pyrénées, occupying the historic residence of the Soubirous family. The place preserves period f…
2 Rue Bernadette Soubirous
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La Boisserie, demeure familiale du général de Gaulle
The Charles de Gaulle Memorial, located in Colombey-les-Deux-Églises in Haute-Marne, is a place of remembrance dedicated to the life and legacy of General Charles de Gaulle. The fa…
1 Rue du Général de Gaulle
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Musée Curie
The Curie Museum is a scientific institution located in Paris, in the 5th arrondissement, in the heart of the Montagne Sainte-Geneviève district. Housed in the Curie Pavilion, the…
1 Rue Pierre et Marie Curie
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Musée du Petit Lourdes
The Museum of Petit Lourdes, located in Lourdes in the Hautes-Pyrénées, is a museum dedicated to the history of Bernadette Soubirous and the apparitions of 1858. The museum present…
68 Av. Peyramale
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Maison de Louis Pasteur
Louis Pasteur's House in Arbois is a science and heritage museum located in the residence that the scholar transformed in the 19th century. Owned by the Academy of Sciences since 1…
83 Rue de Courcelles
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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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Musée du président Jacques Chirac - Sarran
The Jacques Chirac Presidential Museum is located in Sarran, in Corrèze, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is part of a heritage context in rural territory. Its collections and…
4 route du musée
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Molino de Boly
The Moulin de Boly is the birthplace of Bernadette Soubirous, born at the mill on January 7, 1844. Located in Lourdes in the Hautes-Pyrénées, this private museum preserves the livi…
12 Rue Bernadette Soubirous
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Musée Pasteur
Louis Pasteur's birthhouse in Dole, classified as a Historic Monument and labeled "Maisons des Illustres" in 2011, traces the scientific work of the French scholar through a journe…
43 Rue Pasteur
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Musée Escoffier de l'Art Culinaire
The Escoffier Museum of Culinary Art is located in the birthplace of Auguste Escoffier, an authentic 18th-century Provençal house situated in Villeneuve-Loubet, between Nice and Ca…
3 Rue Auguste Escoffier
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Musée Jacques Cartier
The Jacques Cartier Museum, located in the Manor of Limoëlou at Rothéneuf near Saint-Malo, is dedicated to the life and expeditions of the navigator Jacques Cartier (1491-1557), di…
Manoir de Limoëlou, Rue David Macdonald Stewart
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Musée Champollion
The Champollion Museum, located in Vif in Isère, is a museum recognized under the Heritage Code. It is dedicated to Ancient Egypt and the Champollion brothers, the illustrious ling…
1 Rue du Portail Rouge
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Maison du Docteur Gachet
The House of Doctor Gachet is a museum located in Auvers-sur-Oise, in Val-d'Oise, in Île-de-France. This historic residence offers access to the intimate world of the Gachet family…
78 Rue du Dr Gachet
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Maison-Musée Jean Monnet
The Jean Monnet House-Museum is a museum located in Bazoches-sur-Guyonne, in the Yvelines, in the Île-de-France region. It is dedicated to the memory and work of Jean Monnet, a maj…
7 Chem. du Vieux Pressoir
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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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NapoRama
NapoRama is a museum dedicated to the life of Napoleon Bonaparte, located in Ajaccio in South Corsica. The specificity of this museum lies in its original approach: it presents dio…
13 Rue Forcioli Conti
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Maison Natale de François Mitterrand
The Birthplace House of François Mitterrand is a memorial museum located in Jarnac, in Charente. Situated at 22 rue Abel-Guy, it preserves the house where he was born in 1916, he w…
22 Rue Abel Guy
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Musée et Parc Buffon de Montbard
The Buffon Museum and Park is a site museum located in Montbard, in Côte-d'Or, labeled "House of Illustrious Figures" and classified as a Historic Monument. It presents the history…
Rue du Parc Buffon
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Manoir des sciences de Réaumur
The Manor of Sciences of Réaumur, located in Réaumur in Vendée, is a scientific and historical museum dedicated to the life and works of 18th-century natural physicist René-Antoine…
8 Rue Ferchault
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Casa San Martín
The Casa San Martín is a museum in Boulogne-sur-Mer (Pas-de-Calais) dedicated to the memory of General José de San Martín, liberator of South America. Installed in the house where…
113 Grande Rue
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Musée Ampère
The Ampère Museum is an establishment dedicated to the life and work of scholar André-Marie Ampère, born in Lyon in 1775, who spent his childhood and adolescence in Poleymieux-au-M…
300 Rte d'Ampère
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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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Musée Clemenceau
The Clemenceau Museum, located in Paris in the 16th arrondissement, is a history museum dedicated to the life and work of Georges Clemenceau. It traces the career of this major fig…
8 Rue Benjamin Franklin
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Musée Jean Frédéric Oberlin
The Jean Frédéric Oberlin Museum is a house of illustrious figures established in Waldersbach, in the Bas-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region. As an institution, it occupies a…
25 Mnt Oberlin
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Musée national Clemenceau-De Lattre
The Clemenceau-De Lattre National Museum is a collection of two birthhouses located in Mouilleron-Saint-Germain in Vendée. It brings together the birthhouse of Georges Clemenceau,…
18 Rue du Temple
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Musée Napoléon
The Napoleon Museum is located in the Pommerie manor in Cendrieux, in Périgord, in a building listed in the Supplementary Inventory of Historic Monuments. It presents a private col…
La Pommerie
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Maison Nicéphore Niépce
The Nicéphore Niépce House is a museum located in Saint-Loup-de-Varennes in Saône-et-Loire, dedicated to the history of the invention of photography. The site preserves the place w…
15 D906
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Musée Claude Bernard
The Claude Bernard Museum is located in Saint-Julien, in the Rhône department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. A natural sciences museum or memorial museum, it is dedicated to…
414 route du musée
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Maison natale du Maréchal Foch
The birthplace of Marshal Foch is a museum located in Tarbes, in the Hautes-Pyrénées, in the Occitanie region. Housed in the residence where Ferdinand Foch was born, it constitutes…
2 Rue de la Victoire
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Musée d'Art et d'Histoire Romain Rolland
The Romain Rolland Museum of Art and History is located in Clamecy, in Nièvre, in a set of historic buildings comprising the 17th-century Hôtel du Duc de Bellegarde, the birthplace…
Av. de la République
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Musée François Mitterrand
The François Mitterrand Museum is located in Jarnac, in Charente, in a former cognac warehouse that belonged to the Bisquit Dubouché house. Arranged according to the wishes of the…
10 Quai de l'Orangerie
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Musée de l'Abbé Grégoire
The Abbé Grégoire Museum is a history museum located in Emberménil, in Meurthe-et-Moselle, in the Grand Est region. It bears the name of Abbé Grégoire, a major historical figure of…
21 Grande Rue
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Maison Louise de Bettignies
The Louise de Bettignies House, located in Saint-Amand-les-Eaux in the Nord region, is a birthplace transformed into a research and exhibition center dedicated to female emancipati…
114 Rue Louise de Bettignies
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Musée Pasteur
The Pasteur Museum is located in the Parisian apartment where Louis Pasteur lived during the last seven years of his life, within the Pasteur Institute. The museum offers an immers…
25 Rue du Dr Roux
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Musée Jean-Mermoz
The Jean-Mermoz Museum is a history museum located in Aubenton, in the Aisne department, in the Hauts-de-France region. It is part of the museum offerings of Thiérache, a territory…
2 Rue du Jeton
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Musée Farcot
The Farcot Museum, established in France since 2003, is located in rural territory in Sainville, in Eure-et-Loir. It traces the life and collections of Eugène Farcot (1830-), a not…
2 Pl. Farcot
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Maison natale de Condorcet
Condorcet's Birthplace is a museum located in Ribemont, a commune in Aisne in the Hauts-de-France region. It occupies the native home of the philosopher and mathematician Condorcet…
11 Rue Condorcet
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Musée Barthélemy-Thimonier
The Barthélemy-Thimonier Museum is an establishment located in Amplepuis, in the Rhône, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Labeled as a museum of France since 2005 under the Code…
Pl. de L Hôtel de ville, 69550 Amplepuis, France
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Musée Murat
The Murat Museum is located in the heart of the Causses in Lot, in the Occitanie region. It is part of an approach to enhancing heritage in rural territory. Classified among the Ho…
Rue Joachim Murat, 46240 Cœur de Causse, France
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Musée départemental Raymond Poincaré
The Raymond Poincaré departmental museum occupies the ground floor of the former summer residence of President Raymond Poincaré in Sampigny, in the Meuse. Located in a Neo-Louis XI…
6-12 Rue du Château, 55300 Sampigny, France
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Musée de l'hôtel d'Espeyran
The Espeyran Hotel Museum is a House of Famous People. Located in Montpellier in Hérault, it occupies a private mansion and is part of the enhancement of Montpellier's heritage. Re…
6 Rue Montpelliéret, 34000 Montpellier, France
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Musée Bernadotte
The Bernadotte Museum is established in Pau, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Labeled as a "Museum of France" according to the Heritage Code since 2003, it is part of the French instit…
6 Rue Tran, 64000 Pau, France
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Musée Bonaparte
The Bonaparte Museum is a site museum located in Auxonne, in Côte-d'Or, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. Labeled as a "Museum of France" according to the Heritage Code since…
Rue du Château, 21130 Auxonne, France
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Musée Hector Berlioz
The Hector-Berlioz Museum is a house museum and historic house located in La Côte-Saint-André, in Isère. It occupies a site in the rural territory of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regio…
69 Rue de la République, 38260 La Côte-Saint-André, France
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Musée départemental Alexandre Franconie
The Alexandre Franconie departmental museum is a House of Illustrious Persons located in Cayenne, French Guiana. It falls into the category of house museums, dedicated to the memor…
1 Rue de Rémire, Cayenne 97300, Guyane française
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Musée Jeanne d'Arc
The Jeanne d'Arc Museum of Vaucouleurs is dedicated to representations of the character of Jeanne d'Arc through the centuries. Its four sections present a collection of drawings, p…
17 Rue Jeanne d'Arc, 55140 Vaucouleurs, 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 municipal Robert Dubois-Corneau
The Robert Dubois-Corneau municipal museum, located in Brunoy in Essonne, occupies the former residence of historian Robert Dubois-Corneau (1876-1951), who devoted his life to the…
16 Rue du Réveillon, 91800 Brunoy, 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 Pascal Paoli
The Pascal Paoli Museum is a site museum located in Morosaglia, in Upper Corsica. It falls into the category of Houses of Illustrious Figures and is part of the heritage in a rural…
16 D71, 20218 Morosaglia, 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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