Histoire & Patrimoine Museums in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Lugdunum - Musée & Théâtres romains

Lugdunum is an archaeological museum located in Lyon. The museum presents collections from the ancient city of Lugdunum through various objects: mosaics, sculptures, ceramics, jewe…

17 Rue Cleberg

Musée de la Révolution française

Vizille Estate, located in Isère, houses the departmental museum of the French Revolution. It is set within a historic estate with a remarkable garden. The museum's collections foc…

Pl. du Château

Palais de l'Île

The Palais de l'Île is a museum-castle located in Annecy, in Haute-Savoie, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It falls into the category of historical museums. The establishment o…

3 Pass. de l'Île

Monastère Royal de Brou

The royal monastery of Brou is a flamboyant Gothic building located in Bourg-en-Bresse, in Ain. It is open to the public and offers a permanent exhibition enriched with works of ar…

63 Bd de Brou

Musée de la Mine - Couriot

The Couriot Museum is a site museum located on the grounds of the Saint-Étienne mine in Loire. Labeled as a "Museum of France" since 2003 under the Heritage Code, it is dedicated t…

3 Boul. Maréchal Franchet d'Esperey

Musée et sites archéologiques de Saint-Romain-en-Gal

The Saint-Romain-en-Gal archaeological museum is a site museum located in the Rhône department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is directly associated with local archaeologic…

D502

Musée archéologique Saint-Laurent

The Saint-Laurent Archaeological Museum is a site museum located in Grenoble, in Isère. The museum presents archaeological collections linked to local heritage and the history of t…

4 Pl. Saint-Laurent

Musée de Gergovie

The Gergovie Museum is an archaeological museum located on the Gergovie plateau, in La Roche-Blanche in Puy-de-Dôme. It is dedicated to the Battle of Gergovie in 52 BC, a confronta…

Plt de Gergovie

Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l'Isère

The Museum of Resistance and Deportation of Isère is a local history museum located in Grenoble. It documents the themes of Resistance and Deportation in Isère during World War II.…

14 Rue Hébert

Palais Lumière

The Palais Lumière is a cultural establishment located in Évian-les-Bains, in Haute-Savoie, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Combining the functions of museum and cultural cente…

Quai Charles Albert Besson

Musée départemental de la Résistance du Vercors

The departmental museum of the Resistance of Vercors is located in Vassieux-en-Vercors, a martyred village that became a Companion of the Liberation. It traces the history of the R…

Rue du Fournat

Musée de l'Ancien Évêché

The Museum of the Former Bishop's Palace, unofficially known as the Dauphinois Museum, is established in Grenoble in Isère. It is located in the former monastery of Sainte-Marie d'…

2 Rue Très Cloîtres

Musée Fantastique de la Bête du Gévaudan

The Fantastic Museum of the Beast of Gévaudan is located in Saugues, in Haute-Loire, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is dedicated to the history and legend of the Beast of G…

Rue de la Tour

Scénomusée la Toinette et Julien

The Scénomusée la Toinette et Julien is a local history museum located in Murat-le-Quaire, at the foot of the Sancy massif in Auvergne. It offers immersive guided tours retracing r…

Cour de la Mairie, 106 Rte de la Banne d'Ordanche

Musée d'histoire de Lyon - Gadagne

The Gadagne Museum is located in Lyon, in the Old Town. It comprises two distinct museums: the Museum of Lyon's History and the Museum of Puppet Arts. Housed in a building classifi…

1 Pl. du Petit Collège

Musée Bargoin

The Bargoin Museum is housed in a neoclassical building inaugurated in 1903 in the heart of Clermont-Ferrand. It preserves archaeological collections mainly from the Clermont basin…

45 Rue Ballainvilliers

Fort de Bron

The Fort de Bron is a history museum located in Bron, in the Lyon metropolitan area. It occupies a detached fort built after the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, designed to defend the…

Fort de Bron, Chem. Vieux

Musée des Troupes de montagne

The Museum of Mountain Troops is located at the Bastille Fort in Grenoble, Isère. It is dedicated to the historical and military heritage of mountain troops, offering a tour coveri…

Fort de la Bastille

Musée de la Résistance du Mont-Mouchet

The Mont-Mouchet Resistance Museum, located in Auvers in Haute-Loire, is dedicated to the history of the Resistance in Auvergne. Set on Mont-Mouchet, a major site of regional resis…

La Devèze

Musée Alpin Chamonix

The Alpine Museum, officially the Mont-Blanc Museum, is an institution certified as a "Musée de France" since 2003, located in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc in Haute-Savoie. It is dedicated…

89 Av. Michel Croz

MuséAl

MuséAl is an archaeological site museum located in Alba-la-Romaine, in Ardèche, which explores the ancient heritage of Alba Helviorum, the former capital of the Helvetii. It is adm…

99 Route de Viviers

Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l'Ain

The Museum of Resistance and Deportation of Ain is housed in a former prison in Nantua, in Ain. It is located in a rural area and is dedicated to the history of Resistance and Depo…

3 Mnt de l'Abbaye

Village-Musée de la Combe de Savoie

The Village-Museum of the Combe de Savoie is an ecomuseum located in Grésy-sur-Isère in Savoie, on the hillside of the right bank of the Isère, between Montmélian and Albertville,…

530 Chem. des Carrières du Salin

Musée de l'École 1900

The 1900 School Museum is located in Saint-Martin-des-Olmes, in Puy-de-Dôme. It occupies an authentic school building dating from the 1880s. The museum offers a retrospective of sc…

134 route des Pradeaux

Château des Rubins - Observatoire des Alpes

The Château des Rubins is an establishment located in Sallanches, in Haute-Savoie, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It combines the functions of museum and cultural center, offe…

105 Mnt des Rubins

MINERAIL : musée de la mine de Messeix

The MINERAIL museum, located in Messeix in Puy-de-Dôme, occupies the industrial complex of the Saint-Louis Pit. It is dedicated to the history of local mining exploitation and the…

2 All. des Sorbiers

Musée de la Préhistoire du Vercors

The Vercors Prehistory Museum is a site museum located in Vassieux-en-Vercors, in the Drôme, in the heart of the Vercors Regional Natural Park. It is dedicated to prehistory and is…

L'hale

Musée Le Prieuré

The Prieuré Museum is a history museum located in Salles-Arbuissonnas-en-Beaujolais, in the Rhône department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Installed in a characteristic buil…

3 Rue de l'Église

Ecomusée Maison de Pays en Bresse

The Écomusée Maison de Pays en Bresse is an association-run museum located in Saint-Étienne-du-Bois, in Ain, dedicated to rural life in Bresse from the 15th to the 19th century. Th…

Montaplan, 100 Route de bourg en bresse

Ouvrage Infanterie Saint Gobain

The Saint Gobain Infantry Fortification is a history museum located in Villarodin-Bourget, in Savoy, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Installed in a military fortification, it d…

Fort Saint-Gobain, Route d'Aussois D 215

Musée école messeix

The Rural School Museum of Messeix, located in Puy-de-Dôme, is dedicated to the reconstruction and promotion of education in rural areas. The museum features a classroom recreated…

30 Rue Louis Aragon

Musée des Eaux de Lyon

The Lyon Water Museum, located in Caluire-et-Cuire in the Rhône, is a space dedicated to highlighting Lyon's industrial and hydraulic heritage. It is organized around the Cornwall…

2 Av. de Poumeyrol

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

Musée de la Résistance, de l'Internement et de la Déportation

Founded in 1994, the Museum of Resistance, Internment and Deportation is located in Chamalières, in the Puy-de-Dôme. It approaches the history of the Second World War from a local,…

7 Pl. de Beaulieu

Château des ducs de Bourbon

The Castle of the Dukes of Bourbon, located in Moulins in Allier, is a building whose construction began between 1375 and 1410 on the initiative of Louis II of Bourbon. The site un…

7 Pl. de la Déportation

Musée de la figurine

The Museum of Figurines, located in Droiturier in Allier, is a local history museum founded by Marie and Hervé Maneval. It presents a collection of hand-painted historical figurine…

Le Champ de, La Garde

Musée du Protestantisme Dauphinois

The Museum of Dauphinois Protestantism is located in the heart of the medieval village of Poët-Laval, in Drôme, in a former 14th-century residence converted into a Protestant templ…

25 Rue de l'Ancien Temple

Musée d'histoire du 20e siècle - Résistance et Déportation -

The Museum of 20th Century History - Resistance and Deportation is a cultural and heritage institution located in Estivareilles, in Haute-Loire. Founded in 1984 by Former Resisters…

456 route du Musée

La Diana

The Diana Museum is an archaeological site museum located in Montbrison, in Loire. It is managed by the Archaeological and Historical Society of Forez, founded in 1862, a publicly…

7 Rue Florimond Robertet

Musée vie en 1900 de Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne

The "Life in Dombes 1900" museum occupies the Hôtel Dieu of Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne and offers an immersion into daily life at the beginning of the 20th century in the Dombes regi…

15 Pl. Saint-Vincent de Paul

Musée du Vieux Pérouges

The Museum of Old Pérouges, housed in the House of Princes, a residence of nobles in the medieval city, presents collections of local heritage and popular traditions. The permanent…

1 Rue des Princes

Musée Archéologique du Pègue

The Archaeological Museum of Pègue is a site museum located in Pègue, a commune in the Drôme. It brings together archaeological discoveries made on the communal territory, rich wit…

2 rue du Donjon

Musée matheysin

The Matheysin Museum is an art and history museum established in 1994 in the Caral House, in the heart of the old town of La Mure in Isère. It brings together collections relating…

Rue Colonel Escallon

Musée d'histoire militaire de Lyon et sa région

The Military History Museum of Lyon and its Region is an institution dedicated to presenting the military history of the Lyon territory and region, from Antiquity to the contempora…

22 Av. Leclerc

Musée-Maison du Patrimoine

The Heritage Museum-House is an archaeological site museum located in Hières-sur-Amby, in Isère, in the rural territory of Isle-Crémieu. The museum presents the archaeology of loca…

Mnt de la Cure

Musée archéologique d'Izernore

The Izernore archaeological museum is a site museum located in rural territory in the Ain, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It preserves and exhibits over 500 pieces of archaeol…

7 Pl. de l'Église

Musée de Feurs

The Feurs museum is housed in a private mansion from the late 18th century, in the heart of the town of Feurs in Loire. The first floor presents a permanent exhibition dedicated to…

3 Rue Victor de Laprade

Musée de la Mine

The Mining Museum is a site museum located on the grounds of a former mine in Champagnac, in Loire, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. This museum bears witness to the local minin…

Rte de Veyrières

Musée de Saint-Martin-de-Belleville

The Saint-Martin-de-Belleville Museum is a local history museum located in the commune of Saint-Martin-de-Belleville, in Savoy, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is dedicated…

54 Rue du Clocher

Musée de Glozel

The Glozel Museum is an archaeology museum located in Ferrières-sur-Sichon, in Allier, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Founded in 1926, it presents collections of local and reg…

Musée de Prat écomusée de la terre et des hommes

The Prat Museum is an ecomuseum located in Labrousse, in the Cantal. It offers an educational approach to natural sciences and local history, presenting the geological formation of…

Lieu dit de, Prat

Musée du Haut Val d'Arly

The Haut Val d'Arly Museum is a rural life museum located in Megève, in Haute-Savoie. It occupies a nineteenth-century farmhouse converted into a space dedicated to the traditions…

84 Rue Dr Charles Socquet

Musée d'Archéologie Tricastine (Musat)

The Tricastine Archaeology Museum (Musat) is located in Saint-Paul-Trois-Châteaux, in the Drôme. Recently reopened after major renovation and expansion, the museum presents human o…

Pl. de Castellane

Musée de Royat

The Royat Museum, located at Place Jean Cohendy facing the portal of Saint-Léger Church, is dedicated to the local history of the Royat thermal spa. It particularly traces the era…

8 Pl. Jean Cohendy

Musée Alfred Douet

The Alfred Douët Museum is an art and history museum located in Saint-Flour, in Cantal. It occupies a Renaissance-style consular house, a restored historic monument, which itself c…

17 Pl. d'Armes

Musée de la résistance et de la déportation

The Joseph Lhomenède Museum of Resistance and Deportation is located in Frugières-le-Pin, in Haute-Loire, a region of major historical significance in French resistance. Installed…

Train Station

Musée de Rumilly

Our History, the Museum of Rumilly and Albanais, is a local history and ethnography museum located in Rumilly in Haute-Savoie. It functions as a place of knowledge and exchange ded…

5 Pl. de la Manufacture

Musée de fessy

The Muséâm de Fessy is a cultural association based in the village of Fessy, in Haute-Savoie, supported by the municipality and the Departmental Council. The museum was born from t…

35 Rue de l'église

Salle du Patrimoine

The Saint-André-le-Bas Cloister Museum, designated, is located in Vienne in Isère. Classified in the category of history museums, it occupies the premises of the historic cloister…

1 Pl. du Jeu de Paume

Maison du Patrimoine de Pellafol

The Pellafol Heritage House is a local history museum located in Isère, in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Managed by the Pellafol-Obiou Heritage Association, it offers a documentary approac…

42 rue de la forge

Musée Trévoux et ses Trésors

The Trévoux and its Treasures Museum is housed in the Hôtel Pierre et Anne de Bourbon, a 15th-century Trévoux residence, and traces the history of the Principality of Dombes, of wh…

Grande Rue

Musée de Chazay-d'Azergues

The Chazay-d'Azergues Museum, managed by the association Les Amis du Vieux Chazay, is a local history museum located in the Rhône department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It…

1 All. des Remparts

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

Préhistorama

Préhistorama is a museum dedicated to prehistory, located in the former railway station of Châtelperron in Allier. The site offers a presentation of the living conditions of the me…

5 Rte de St Léon

Musée des Traditions Bugistes

The Bugiste Traditions Museum is a heritage museum located in Saint-Rambert-en-Bugey, in the Albarine valley in Ain. Managed by volunteers, it traces the life of Upper Bugey betwee…

7 Av. de l'Europe

DIORAMA Saint Bénilde

The DIORAMA Saint Bénilde is a local history museum located in Saugues, in Haute-Loire. It is part of the Auvergne heritage of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. The site appears to…

Rue du Prieuré

De bleu et de sang parcours muséographique

The museum tour "Of Blue and Blood" in Laqueuille offers a self-guided visit focused on the village's local history, centered on two prominent figures: Antoine Roussel and Victor M…

74 rue des pommiers

Musée sapeurs-pompiers de Passy le Fayet

The Passy le Fayet Firefighters Museum is located in Haute-Savoie, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. This history museum is devoted to the heritage and history of firefighters. I…

87 Rue du Plan

Musée du Patrimoine Rural

The Rural Heritage Museum is located in Le Donjon, in Allier, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. This institution is dedicated to preserving and presenting the material and cultur…

Place du Champ de Foire

Musée Maison de L'Araire

The Maison de l'Araire is a local history museum located in Yzeron, in the Rhône department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Founded in 1983 in a former girls' school, it is ma…

23 Rue de la Cascade

Eco-Musée Lou Truel

The Éco-Musée Lou Truel is a museum located in Maurs, a commune in Cantal in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. As an ecomuseum, it is part of an approach to enhance heritage and loc…

15 Rue du Pauverel

Musée d’Histoire et d’Archéologie de l’Alpe d’Huez

The Museum of History and Archaeology of Alpe d'Huez is located at 1,850 meters altitude on the Grandes Rousses plateau in Isère. It offers three permanent exhibitions dedicated to…

70 Av. de Brandes

Musée départemental du château

The departmental museum of the castle is located in the Grignan castle in Drôme, a listed historic monument situated in rural Provençal territory. It is part of a larger ensemble,…

23 Rue Montant au Château, 26230 Grignan, France

Centre d'histoire de la résistance

The Centre for the History of Resistance and Deportation (CHRD) is a museum established in Lyon since 2003. It is dedicated to the history of the Second World War, with particular…

14 Av. Berthelot, 69007 Lyon, France

Musée Louis Jourdan

The Louis Jourdan museum is a museum located in a rural area in Saint-Paul-de-Varax, a commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Labeled as a museum under t…

15 Pl. de l'Église, 01240 Saint-Paul-de-Varax, France

Musée Mainssieux

The Mainssieux Museum is a cultural institution located in Voiron, in Isère, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It complies with conservation and documentation standards applicabl…

7 Place Léon Chaloin, 38500 Voiron, France

Musée du château des Adhémar

The Adhémar Castle Museum is located in the Montélimar Castle in Drôme. A listed historic monument, it is part of the cultural offerings of the castles of Drôme, an emblematic heri…

Rue de Narbonne, 26200 Montélimar, France

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

Musée municipal d'Albertville-Conflans

The Albertville-Conflans municipal museum is located in Albertville in Savoie. A municipal institution registered in the "Town of Art and History" program, it contributes to the en…

Grande Place, 73200 Albertville, France

Musée des antiquités gallo-romaines

The Museum of Gallo-Roman Antiquities is a site museum located in a rural area in Aoste, in Isère, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is managed by the municipality and is amon…

43 Pl. du Musée, 38490 Aoste, France

Musée archéologique et minéralogique Pierre Borrione

The Archaeological and Mineralogical Museum Pierre Borrione is a site museum located on Saint Sigismond hill in Aime-la-Plagne, in Savoy. It presents collections testifying to huma…

Mnt de Saint-Sigismond, 73210 Aime-la-Plagne, France

Musée Jadis Allevard

The Gallery, Allevard-les-Bains museum, is a museum located in Isère in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is dedicated to the history and characteristics of the Allevard territor…

2b Av. des Bains, 38580 Allevard, France

Musée vivarois César Filhol

The Vivarois César Filhol Museum is located in Annonay, in Ardèche, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It falls under the framework of the French Heritage Code. The museum bears t…

15 Rue Jean-Baptiste Bechetoille, 07100 Annonay, France

Musée de la Grande-Chartreuse

Located in the Correrie, a former monastic building in the Chartreuse massif, the Museum of the Grande-Chartreuse presents the history and daily life of the Order of the Carthusian…

670 Rte du Désert, 38380 Saint-Pierre-de-Chartreuse, France

Musée gallo-romain

The Gallo-Roman Museum of Néris-les-Bains is located in a rural area in the Allier department, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It benefits from a label attesting to its integra…

4 Rue Monthyon, 03310 Néris-les-Bains, France

Musées des pays de l'Ain

The Musée des Pays de l'Ain is an institution located in Bourg-en-Bresse, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It has obtained the label, thus recognizing its role in the preservati…

34 Rue du Général Delestraint, 01000 Bourg-en-Bresse, France

Musée des Vallées de Thônes

The Thônes Valleys Museum is established in Thônes, a municipality in Haute-Savoie in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is part of the regional heritage fabric. The museum is loc…

1 Rue Blanche, 74230 Thônes, France

Musée parc archéologique du lac de Paladru

The Paladru Lake Archaeological Park Museum is a site museum located in a rural area in Isère, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is situated within the archaeological and natu…

51 Rue du Musée, 38850 Villages du Lac de Paladru, France

Musée Rural Montacutain

The Montacutain Rural Museum, located in Montaigu-le-Blin in Allier, is a local history museum dedicated to rural life in the 19th and 20th centuries. Housed on the first floor of…

Le Bourg, 03150

Musée de la société d'histoire et d'archéologie

The Museum of the Society for History and Archaeology is a site-based institution located in Briord, in Ain, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Recognized as a museum of France, i…

591-523, D79A, 01470 Briord, France

Musée de Thonon-les-Bains

The Chablais Museum, located at the Sonnaz Castle in Thonon-les-Bains in Haute-Savoie, is an establishment. It offers a permanent exhibition entitled "A Leap Through Time, 7,000 Ye…

2 Rue Michaud, 74200 Thonon-les-Bains, France

Musée régional d'Auvergne

The Auvergne Regional Museum is a public institution located in Riom, in Puy-de-Dôme. Labeled under the Heritage Code, it contributes to the preservation and promotion of Auvergne…

10B Rue Delille, 63200 Riom, France

Musée Savoisien

The Savoy Museum is a museum located in Chambéry, in Savoy, within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Labeled according to the Heritage Code since January 5, 2002, it is housed in th…

Pl. Métropole, 73000 Chambéry, France

Musée lapidaire Saint-Pierre

The Saint-Pierre lapidary museum is located in Vienne in Isère. It is part of a group of four museum sites that trace the history of the city from the Neolithic period to the 20th…

2 Rue Saint-Georges, 38200 Vienne, France

Musée des pénitents blancs

The White Penitents Museum is a chapel-museum located in the rural territory of Marsac-en-Livradois, in Puy-de-Dôme, in the heart of the Livradois-Forez Regional Natural Park. It o…

6 Pl. de l'Église, 63940 Marsac-en-Livradois, France

Musée lapidaire

The Lapidary Museum is a site museum located in Mozac, in Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is situated within the heritage context of this Auvergne commune. As a…

24B Rue de l'Abbaye, 63200 Mozac, France

Musée Saint-Marc

The Saint-Marc Museum is a museum, labeled according to the Heritage Code since 2003, located in Souvigny in Allier, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Situated in a rural area, i…

1 Cr Jean Jaurès, 03210 Souvigny, France