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Musées Patrimoine maritime en France
56 muséesFrance brings together 56 museums dedicated to maritime heritage and naval culture. The Éric Tabarly City of Sailing, the Maritime Museum of La Rochelle and the National Museum of the Navy illustrate France's relationship with the ocean and its maritime traditions. These institutions celebrate exploration, fishing, merchant and military shipping. Discover below the 56 museums referenced on The Artwork Room.
56 musées
Cité de la Voile Éric Tabarly
Éric Tabarly's City of Sailing is a museum dedicated to sailing and offshore racing, located in Lorient in Morbihan, Brittany. The visit route, lasting two to three hours, offers a…
Lorient La Base, Rue Roland Morillot
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Musée Maritime de La Rochelle
The Maritime Museum of La Rochelle, located at place Bernard Moitessier, preserves and promotes a heritage linked to the city's port history. Its collections include a heritage fle…
Pl. Bernard Moitessier
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Musée National de la Marine
The National Maritime Museum is a heritage institution present at several sites in France including Toulon, Paris, Brest, Port-Louis and Rochefort. The Toulon museum, located at Pl…
Place Monsenergue, Quai de Norfolk
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Musée de Fécamp
Les Pêcheries is a museum established in Fécamp, in Seine-Maritime, labeled under the Heritage Code since 2003. Located in Normandy, it holds a particular place in the region's cul…
3 Quai Capitaine Jean Recher
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Musée maritime et portuaire
The Maritime and Port Museum of Dunkirk is located on a former factory site in the heart of Dunkirk's port. It traces the history of the region's naval and port heritage through do…
9 Quai de la Citadelle
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Port-musée
The Port-Museum of Douarnenez is an open-air museum dedicated to boats and maritime cultures. Located on the port of Douarnenez in Finistère, it offers a nationally significant col…
Pl. de l'Enfer
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Musée national de la Marine de Paris
The National Maritime Museum of Paris, located at the Trocadéro, is an institution dedicated to maritime history and contemporary maritime issues. Its collections explore the relat…
17 Pl. du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre
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Musée d'art et d'histoire de la Ville de Lorient
The Museum of the India Company is a site museum located in Port-Louis, in Morbihan, Brittany. As an institution, it is engaged in a process of preserving and transmitting heritage…
Citadelle de Port-Louis,, Avenue du Fort de l'Aigle
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Musée mémorial international de la Bataille de l'Atlantique
The International Memorial Museum of the Battle of the Atlantic is located in a blockhouse on the Kerbonn cliff in Camaret-sur-Mer, overlooking the sea fifty meters above. Dedicate…
Fort de
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Musée des Marais Salants
The Salt Marshes Museum is located in Batz-sur-Mer in Loire-Atlantique. It is dedicated to highlighting the heritage linked to salt marshes, an ecosystem characteristic of the Atla…
Place Adèle Pichon
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Musée National de la Marine Rochefort
The National Maritime Museum of Rochefort is located in Charente-Maritime and occupies two distinct sites: the Hôtel de Cheusses/Arsenal and the Former Naval Medical School. A nati…
1 Pl. de la Galissonnière
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Musée national de la Marine - Port-louis
The National Maritime Museum of Port-Louis, located in the Citadel of Port-Louis in Morbihan, is dedicated to Breton and French maritime history. Its collections span over four hun…
Citadelle de Port-Louis
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Maison de l'armateur du Havre
The Shipowner's Museum, located in Le Havre in Seine-Maritime, is a museum. Established in a historic house, it is part of the urban and maritime heritage of the Norman port city.…
3 Quai de l'Île
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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 départemental des phares et balises
The departmental museum of lighthouses and beacons is located on the island of Ouessant, in Finistère, in rural Brittany. It has been labeled since 2003 under the Heritage Code. Es…
Île d, Ouessant FR Le Créac'h
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MuséoSeine, le musée de la Seine normande - Caux Seine agglo
MuséoSeine is a museum dedicated to Seine river maritime heritage, located in rural territory in Rives-en-Seine in Seine-Maritime. It is managed by Caux Seine agglo alongside the J…
Av. Winston-Churchill
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Musée des Thoniers
The Tuna Boat Museum is an associative museum located in Étel, in Morbihan, near the port and the Étel Bar. It traces the maritime history of the region, particularly the epic of t…
3 Imp. Jean Bart
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Musée Ernest Cognacq
The Ernest Cognacq Museum is an art and history museum located in Saint-Martin-de-Ré, in Charente-Maritime. It occupies an architectural complex composed of a fifteenth-century man…
13 Av. Victor Bouthillier
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Musée du Pays de Retz
The Museum of the Pays de Retz is a local history museum located in Villeneuve-en-Retz, in Loire-Atlantique. It explores the history, traditions and heritage of the Pays de Retz te…
6 Rue des Moines
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Musée de l'Histoire Maritime de Bordeaux
The Maritime History Museum of Bordeaux, located in the Bassins à flot district, traces twenty centuries of history of the Port of the Moon through its maritime, port, and river di…
1 Quai Armand Lalande
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Musée des Terre-Neuvas
The Museum of Newfoundland Fishermen is an institution dedicated to preserving and promoting the memory of Saint-Malo shipowners and sailors engaged in fishing off Newfoundland. Lo…
67 Av. de Moka
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Musée de la frontière
The Museobar-museum of the border is an establishment located in Modane, in Savoy, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Situated in a major border zone of the Alps, this museum expl…
42 Rue de la République
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Musée de la Marine de Mindin
The Mindin Maritime Museum, located in Saint-Brevin-les-Pins in Loire-Atlantique, is dedicated to the history of the French Navy. It presents four permanent exhibitions devoted to…
Pl. Bougainville
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Musée maritime Argos
Le Portel · Pas-de-Calais
Musée maritime Argos
The Argos Maritime Museum, located in Le Portel in Pas-de-Calais, is a museum dedicated to maritime heritage. It offers guided or self-guided tours, accompanied by audio guides ava…
4 Ctre Radio d'Alprech
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Musée Frédéric Dumas
The Frédéric Dumas Museum is a museum dedicated to the history of autonomous scuba diving, located in Sanary-sur-Mer in the Var. It presents the life and work of Frédéric Dumas, a…
12 Rue Lauzet Aîné
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Musee De La Batellerie
The Inland Waterway Museum is located in Saint-Jean-de-Losne, in Côte-d'Or, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. It is dedicated to the history and practice of inland waterway tr…
5 Rue de la Liberté
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Abri du Marin
Located in the heart of the Sainte-Marine port in Combrit, Finistère, the Musée de l'Abri du Marin is dedicated to the history of shelters for sailors and Breton fishermen. Install…
13 Quai Jacques de Thézac
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Musée de la Pêche
Museum and interpretation center dedicated to maritime fishing, located on Île-d'Yeu in Finistère, Brittany. The museum houses antique objects and collections bearing witness to fi…
Quai de la Chapelle
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Musée de la Marine en Bois du Brivet
The Brivet Wooden Maritime Museum is an open-air museum located in Montoir-de-Bretagne, in Loire-Atlantique. It traces the history of wooden shipbuilding and maritime life in the B…
6 Rue de Châteaubriand
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Bunker Du Phare
The Cap Ferret Lighthouse is a museum dedicated to maritime history and the heritage of the Arcachon Basin, housed within a lighthouse structure 57 meters tall, automated in 1944.…
4 Prom. Tour du Phare Cap Ferret
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Hôtel Jacobsen, Centre des patrimoines maritimes
The Jacobsen Hotel, Center for Maritime Heritage, is a local history museum located in Noirmoutier-en-l'Île, in Vendée. Situated on an island in the Atlantic connected to the mainl…
Rue Saint-Louis
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Musée des Amis du Vieux Lormont
The Museum of Friends of Old Lormont is a local history museum located in Lormont in Gironde, administered by an association under the 1901 law dedicated to the study, promotion an…
1 Rue de la République
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Musée de Quiberon
The Quiberon Museum is a history museum housed in a 17th-century house located in the heart of the Quiberon peninsula in Morbihan. The museum presents exhibitions on three floors d…
11 Rue de Port Haliguen
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Ecomusée de l’ile de Groix
The Écomusée of the island of Groix is located on the island's port in a former fish canning factory. It offers visitors a discovery of the local heritage through collections, exhi…
49 Rue du Général de Gaulle
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Musée Saint Mathieu
The Saint Mathieu Museum is housed in the former residence of the lighthouse keepers at the Saint-Mathieu point in Plougonvelin in Finistère. It is managed by the Association of Fr…
Pl. Saint-Tanguy
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Ecomusee Du Port Des Salines
The Salt Marsh Ecomuseum of Port des Salines is located in Grand-Village-Plage, on the island of Oléron in Charente-Maritime. Dedicated to the history and practices of the region's…
23 Rue des Anciennes Salines
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Musée du Ponant
The Musée du Ponant is located on rue Saint-Mathieu in Saint-Renan, in Finistère, near the Place du Vieux Marché. Opened in July 2019, the museum is housed in a private mansion dat…
16 Rue Saint-Mathieu
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Musee Abri Du Marin
The Abri du Marin Museum is located on the Île-de-Sein, a small commune in Finistère in Brittany, accessible without an automobile. The museum is part of this island's maritime and…
Quai des Paimpolais
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Musée Mémoire d'Islande
The Iceland and Newfoundland Memory Museum, managed by the association PLAERANEG GWECHALL, is an associative museum located in Ploubazlanec in Côtes-d'Armor. It documents the histo…
6 Rue Abbé le Jeune
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Musée de la Batellerie Pierre Mondanel
The Allier River Navigation Museum Pierre-Mondanel, located in Pont-du-Château in Puy-de-Dôme, documents the river history of this commune. Named after the historian Pierre Mondane…
Pl. de l'Aire
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Musée la Maison de la Pêche
The House of Fishing is a local history museum located in La Turballe in Loire-Atlantique, dedicated to the maritime and cultural heritage of the municipality. Managed by the assoc…
Terrasse de la criée
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Musée de la Résidence des Indes
Located in La Rochelle in Charente-Maritime, the Museum of the Residence of the Indies occupies an 18th-century townhouse that belonged to the shipowner-merchant Weiss, the local r…
74 Chem. des Remparts
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Le petit musée du Canot Automobile
The French Motor Boat Center, located in La Teste-de-Buch in Gironde, is a museum specialized in the heritage of motorboating and vintage motor boats. It houses more than 50 except…
401 Av. Denis Papin
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Musée de la Loire
The Loire Museum is located in Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, in Nièvre, in the former Augustinian convent, situated at the confluence of the Loire River and the Nohain River. It offers tw…
Place de la Résistance, 58200 Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, France
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Musée de la marine de Loire
The Loire River Maritime Museum, established in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire in the Loiret, is dedicated to the knowledge and practices related to boating in the Loire basin. It preserves…
1 Pl. Aristide Briand, 45110 Châteauneuf-sur-Loire, France
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Musée d'ethnographie et d'arts populaires et musée de la marine
The ethnography and folk arts museum and maritime museum of Honfleur is a municipal establishment. Located on Quai Saint-Étienne, near the Vieux-Bassin, it presents collections rel…
Rue de la Prison, 14600 Honfleur, France
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Musée régional
The Fouras Regional Museum, established in Charente-Maritime, is a site museum. Anchored in the rural territory of the Fouras peninsula, it documents the tourist and architectural…
Donjon du Fort Vauban, 17450 Fouras, France
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Musée des docks romains
The Museum of Roman Docks is an archaeological site museum located in Marseille, in the Bouches-du-Rhône. It is established at the heart of an archaeological site that preserves th…
28 Pl. Vivaux, 13002 Marseille, France
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Musée du Rhône
The Rhône Museum is a cultural institution located in Tournon-sur-Rhône, in Ardèche, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is dedicated to the history and heritage of the Rhône Ri…
14 Pl. Auguste Faure, 07300 Tournon-sur-Rhône, France
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Musée de l'Arche
The Ark is a museum and archives located in Saint-Pierre, in the Saint-Pierre and Miquelon archipelago. Recognized as a historical monument, it preserves and promotes the historica…
Rue du 11 Novembre, Saint-Pierre 97500, Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon
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Musée du long-cours cap-hornier
The Museum of Cape Horn Long-Distance Sailing is located in Saint-Malo, in Ille-et-Vilaine. Labeled as a "Musée de France" since 2003, it is dedicated to maritime history and long-…
Quai Sébastopol, 35400 Saint-Malo, France
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Musée Eugène Boudin
The Eugène Boudin Museum is located in Honfleur, in Calvados, and holds a heritage label. It is part of the museum complex of Honfleur, alongside the Maritime Museum, the Ethnograp…
Rue de l'Homme de Bois, 14600 Honfleur, France
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Musée de l'Ephèbe
The Ephebe Museum, located at Cape Agde in Hérault, is an archaeological establishment specializing in the ancient and underwater history of the region. It presents collections org…
Av. des Hallebardes, 34300 Le Cap d'Agde, France
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Musée maritime de l'île Tatihou
The maritime museum of Tatihou Island is located on Tatihou Island in Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, in the English Channel. A museum in a rural setting, it is dedicated to collections and…
Tour Vauban de Tatihou, Tatihou, 50550 Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue, France
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Musée de Bretagne
The Brittany Museum, established in Rennes in Ille-et-Vilaine, is dedicated to the history and society of Brittany. Its collections, comprising nearly 360,000 works and documents,…
10 Cr des Alliés, 35000 Rennes, France
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Musée Quentovic
The Quentovic Museum is located in Étaples-sur-Mer in two former 17th-century private mansions situated on Place du Général de Gaulle. The museum takes its name from the ancient so…
8 Pl. du Général de Gaulle, 62630 Étaples, France
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