Museums in Centre-Val de Loire

Château royal de Blois

The Royal Castle of Blois is a historic monument located in Blois in Loir-et-Cher. The site hosts several museum spaces: the castle itself with its collections, the Museum of Fine…

Pl. du Château

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

Maison Picassiette

The Picassiette House is a raw art museum located in Chartres, in Eure-et-Loir. This residence, created by Raymond Isidore known as Picassiette, constitutes a hybrid architectural…

22 Rue du Repos

Musée Espace automobiles Matra

The Matra Automobiles Space Museum, located in Romorantin-Lanthenay in Loir-et-Cher, is dedicated to the history and challenges of the automobile. The museum offers temporary exhib…

17 Rue des Capucins

Cité Rétro-Mécanique

The Maurice Dufresne Museum, located at the Moulin de Marnay in Azay-le-Rideau in Indre-et-Loire, is a museum dedicated to retro-mechanical heritage covering the period from 1850 t…

17 Rte de Marnay

Musée du Compagnonnage

The Compagnonnage Museum is located in Tours, in Indre-et-Loire. It is, within the meaning of the Heritage Code. The museum preserves collections dedicated to crafts and artisanal…

8 Rue Nationale

Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours

The Museum of Fine Arts in Tours is an art museum located in Tours, in Indre-et-Loire, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It constitutes one of the main cultural institutions in th…

18 Pl. François Sicard

Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans

The Museum of Fine Arts in Orléans is one of the major centers of the Orléans museum network. The institution houses a collection of more than 90,000 works, of which approximately…

1 Rue Fernand Rabier

Château Saint-Jean desormais des Comtes du Perche

The museum of the history of Perche occupies the second floor of the Renaissance main building of the Castle of the Counts of Perche, in Nogent-le-Rotrou in Eure-et-Loire. It trace…

1 Pl. Emile Maquaire

MOBE - Muséum d'Orléans pour la Biodiversité et l'Environnement

The Orléans Museum for Biodiversity and the Environment (MOBE) is a scientific culture institution dedicated to natural heritage and understanding biodiversity. It preserves more t…

6 Rue Marcel Proust

Musée de Préhistoire du Grand-Pressigny

The Museum of Prehistory of Grand-Pressigny is a departmental museum located in Indre-et-Loire, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It is situated in a rural area and is dedicated t…

Rue des Remparts

Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle de Tours

The Natural History Museum of Tours is a municipal institution dedicated to natural sciences, located in Tours in Indre-et-Loire, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It is part of t…

3 Rue du Président Merville

Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle

The Natural History Museum of Bourges is an institution dedicated to natural history and scientific heritage. It houses collections and offers temporary exhibitions as well as an e…

All. René Ménard

Fondation du doute

The Foundation of Doubt, located in Blois in Loir-et-Cher, is a museum dedicated to modern art and the Fluxus movement. It preserves and presents the collections of Ben and Gino di…

14 Rue de la Paix

Frac Centre-Val de Loire

The Frac Centre-Val de Loire is a contemporary art museum located in Orléans, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. A public institution dedicated to contemporary creation, it offers…

88 Rue du Colombier

Musée de l'Hospice Saint Roch

The Saint-Roch Hospice Museum is located in Issoudun in Indre, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. Housed in a remarkable contemporary architecture building, it welcomes art and her…

Rue de l'Hospice Saint-Roch

Musée archéologique d'Argentomagus

The Argentomagus archaeological museum is a site museum located in Saint-Marcel, in Indre, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It presents collections spanning more than a million y…

Les Mersans

Musée des Transports de Pithiviers

The Pithiviers Transport Museum, managed by an association founded in 1966, is dedicated to local railway history and narrow-gauge transport. Located in Pithiviers in the Loiret, i…

Rue Carnot

Conservatoire de l'Agriculture - Le Compa

The Compa is a museum dedicated to agriculture and agricultural machinery, located in Mainvilliers in Eure-et-Loir. It preserves and presents collections of agricultural objects fr…

Pont de Mainvilliers 28000 Chartres, 1 Rue de la République

Musée Bertrand

The Bertrand Museum is a museum located in Châteauroux, in Indre, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It has been labeled under the Heritage Code since 2003. The establishment offer…

2 Rue Dsc des Cordeliers

Forteresse et Musées de Montrichard

The Fortress and Museums of Montrichard is a medieval site located on a rocky outcrop overlooking the Cher valley, in Loir-et-Cher. The heart of the site consists of the Keep, buil…

4 Mnt P. Degrés Sainte-Croix

Musée de Vierzon

The Vierzon Museum is housed in a former industrial building on the site of the French-CASE Company, which was a major center for agricultural machinery production in the 19th and…

11 Rue de la Société Française

Château de Senonches

Senonches Castle, listed as a Historic Monument, houses an interpretation center dedicated to the forest and mankind. Located in the Perche eurélien region of Eure-et-Loir, near Ch…

1 Rue du Château

Musée de la Chemiserie et de l'Elégance Masculine

The Museum of Shirt Making and Men's Elegance is located in Argenton-sur-Creuse, in Indre. It traces the local industrial history of shirt making, an activity that was born 160 yea…

Rue Charles Brillaud

Maison du Braconnage

The House of Poaching is a museum dedicated to the tradition of illegal hunting in Sologne, located in Chaon in Loir-et-Cher. The museum explores this practice through three angles…

Route de Vouzon

Musée de la guerre de 1870 - Loigny-la-Bataille

The 1870 War Museum is located in Loigny-la-Bataille, in Eure-et-Loir, on the square of December 2, 1870. It is dedicated to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-1871 and its local issu…

Pl. du Deux Décembre 1870

Musée de Sologne

The Sologne Museum is located in Romorantin-Lanthenay, in Loir-et-Cher, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It is situated in a heritage setting in the downtown area of the historic…

Moulin du Chapitre, 2 Quai de l'Île Marin

Centre d'exposition Fabrique Normant

The Fabrique Normant is an exhibition center located in Romorantin-Lanthenay, in Loir-et-Cher. It occupies a former industrial site that has been rehabilitated in the city center,…

2 Av. François Mitterrand

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

Maison du Cerf

The Maison du Cerf is a museum dedicated to cervids, located in Villeny in Sologne (Loir-et-Cher). Unique in France in its specialization, it occupies a half-timbered house and off…

Pl. de l'Église

Musikenfete

Musikenfete is a museum dedicated to traditional world music, located in Montoire-sur-le-Loir in Loir-et-Cher. Housed in a completely restored 15th-century building, it presents ov…

Musée du Théâtre Forain

The Fairground Theatre Museum is a municipal establishment located in Artenay, in the Loiret, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It combines two heritage orientations: fairground t…

6 Rue du Paradis

Maison du Tourisme "Cœur de Beauce"

The Maison du Tourisme Cœur de Beauce is an interpretation center located in Orgères-en-Beauce, in Eure-et-Loir, dedicated to the promotion and understanding of the Beauce region.…

5 Pl. de Beauce

Musée du cuir et de la tannerie

The Museum of Leather and Tanning in Château-Renault, located in Indre-et-Loire, is dedicated to the history and techniques of leather transformation. Housed in the former Tenneson…

Esplanade des Droits de l'Homme

Centre de la Résistance, de la Déportation et de la Mémoire

The Centre for Resistance, Deportation and Memory is a municipal institution located in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, dedicated to the history of World War II. Located since 2019 on Victor-…

6 Pl. Victor Hugo

Musée de la Vallée de la Creuse

The Creuse Valley Museum is a museum of popular arts and traditions housed in the former stables of Éguzon Castle in Indre. It offers an exploration of the daily life of inhabitant…

2 Rte de la Gare

Musée des beaux-arts et d'histoire naturelle de Châteaudun

The Museum of Fine Arts and Natural History of Châteaudun, established under the status of [institutional status], brings together archaeological, artistic and naturalist collectio…

3 Rue Toufaire

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire de Dreux

The Museum of Art and History of Dreux is located in Eure-et-Loir, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It brings together collections covering several historical periods, from prehi…

5 Pl. du Musée

Musée des Meules et Pavés d'Epernon

The Museum of Millstones and Paving Stones is a museum located in Épernon, in Eure-et-Loir, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It is managed by the association Épernon Heritage and…

23 Av. de la Prairie

Musée Ateliers des Pionniers

The Museum of Pioneer Workshops is located in Bailleau-Armenonville, in Eure-et-Loir, in a former SNCF freight hall that has been converted. It explores the history of locomotion a…

Pl. de la Gare

Musée de l'école de Chartres et d'Eure-et-Loir

The Museum of the School of Chartres and Eure-et-Loir is a cultural institution located in Chartres, in the Centre-Val de Loire region, dedicated to preserving local school heritag…

12 Pl. Drouaise

Villa Charpentier

Villa Charpentier is the house and studio of sculptor Félix Charpentier (1858-1924), built in 1897 in Chassant in Eure-et-Loir. Preserved by the same family since its foundation an…

61 Rue Saint-Lubin

Maison des Traditions

The House of Traditions is a museum located in Chassignolles, in Indre, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. This establishment is part of an approach to preserve and promote local h…

Rue des Traditions

Prieuré Saint-Vincent

The Priory of Saint-Vincent is an art museum located in Chartres, in Eure-et-Loir. Situated in the historic center of the city, it is part of Chartres' cultural offerings alongside…

12 Rue de la Prte Cendreuse

Musée des mégalithes de Changé

The Megalith Museum of Changé is an archaeological museum located in the municipality of Saint-Piat in Eure-et-Loir, between Maintenon and the hamlet of Changé. The site comprises…

41 Rue des Dolmens

Musée de l'Artisanat Rural Ancien

The Museum of Ancient Rural Craftsmanship, located in Tigy in Loiret, in the Centre-Val de Loire region, is dedicated to the preservation and presentation of traditional rural craf…

Clos Rolland du Roscoat, 60 Rue de Sully

Musée de l'Ocre

The Museum of Ochre, managed by the association Les Amis du Musée, is located in Saint-Georges-sur-la-Prée in Cher. It is dedicated to the history and uses of ochre, a raw material…

1 Pl. des Tilleuls

Musée du Savignéen

The Savignéen Museum is a museum in a rural area located in Savigné-sur-Lathan, in Indre-et-Loire. The museum offers an exploration of the "Sea of Faluns," a marine environment dat…

10 Rue Fbg de la Rue

Jaroszynski Art Museum

The Jaroszynski Art Museum, located in Loches in Indre-et-Loire, is a museum dedicated to the works of painters Karin Jaroszynska and Tadeusz Jaroszynski. These two artists, of Fin…

1 Pl. Charles VII

Musée Diocésain d'Art Religieux

The Diocesan Museum of Religious Art in Blois is located on the first floor of the former Jacobins convent, founded in 1273, situated between the castle and the Loire River. Create…

6 Rue des Jacobins

Musée d'Art et d'Histoire d'Amboise

The Museum of Art and History of Amboise occupies a townhouse built in the early 16th century by Pierre Morin, a wealthy merchant and treasurer of Louis XII. The building, listed a…

5 Rue François 1er

Musée hôpital militaire 14-18 du château de Chenonceau

Installed in the Chenonceau Castle in Chenonceaux (Indre-et-Loire), this historical museum recreates the military hospital that operated in the castle during the First World War. F…

Rue du Château

Maison de l'Homme et de la forêt d'Orléans

The House of Man and Forest of Orléans is a museum located in Loury, in the Loiret, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It explores the relationships between man and the forest, wit…

Pl. Antoine Masson

Musée Émile Chénon

The Émile Chénon Museum, located in Châteaumeillant in the Cher department, is a rural territorial museum. It is dedicated to archaeology and ancient heritage of the Centre-Val de…

10 Rue de la Victoire

Le Grand Coteau - Demeure Francis Poulenc

Grand Coteau is a 16th-century residence located in Noizay, in Indre-et-Loire, in the Loire Valley. Listed in the supplementary inventory of historic monuments, it is associated wi…

269 Chem. Francis Poulenc

Cave Yuccas

The Yuccas Cave is an ecomuseum located in Trôo in Loir-et-Cher, in a former troglodytic dwelling carved into tuffeau stone. This residence, inhabited until 1965, has been fully re…

14 Rue Gouffier

Maison Saint-Simon

The Saint-Simon House is a history museum located in La Ferté-Vidame, in Eure-et-Loire, in the heart of the Centre-Val de Loire region. The museum is housed in the Saint-Dominique…

Pavillon Saint-Dominique

Musée Promenade Louis Derbré

The Louis Derbré Museum-Walk is located at Conon Castle, a 13th-century residence situated in Cellettes, in Loir-et-Cher, near Blois. This museum is dedicated to the work of Louis…

Château de Conon

Musée des Montils

The Museum of Ancient Tools of Montils, located in Loir-et-Cher in the Centre-Val de Loire region, is managed by the Terrouenne association. It is dedicated to the presentation and…

18 Rue du Vieux Porche

Galerie des attelages (dans la ferme du XVIe)

The Carriage Gallery is located in the 16th-century Farm of the Chenonceau estate in Indre-et-Loire. This historic building, which includes the Stables of Catherine de Medici, also…

Musée des outils et objets d'hier

The Museum of Tools and Objects from Yesterday is a rural museum located in Rouziers-de-Touraine, in Indre-et-Loire. Located at 17 rue du 11 novembre, it offers exhibitions and act…

17 Rue du 11 Novembre

Musée Gare de Trôo

The Trôo Station Museum is a railway museum located in Montoire-sur-le-Loir, in Loir-et-Cher, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. Operating as a non-profit organization, it dedicate…

990 La Filletière rue de

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

Musée des sapeurs-pompiers de Loir-et-Cher

The Loir-et-Cher Firefighters Museum is located within the main emergency response center in Vendôme. It offers more than 600 m² of exhibition space dedicated to the history and eq…

Rue du Tertre

Musée de Lavardin

The Lavardin Museum is located in the village of Lavardin, in Loir-et-Cher, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. Situated in the only "Most Beautiful Village of France" in the depart…

Musée de

Musée des Fours Banaux

The Museum of Common Ovens is located in Vierzon, in Cher, at the foot of the city's Belfry. It houses two ovens dating from the 15th century, remarkable and unique architectural e…

7 Rue du Château

Ecomusée du Ferblantier de Salbris et l’habitat traditionnel Solognot

The Tinsmith Ecomuseum of Salbris is housed in an 18th-century farmhouse that has accommodated since 1784 the workshop and home of a family of tinsmiths. It constitutes the only he…

Rue du Général Giraud

Hôtel Cabu, musée d'histoire et d'archéologie

The Hôtel Cabu, Museum of History and Archaeology, is housed in a Renaissance building constructed in 1550 for Philippe Cabu, whose façade decorated with three superimposed orders…

Square Abbé Desnoyers, 1, 45000 Orléans, France

Musée de la Guerre 1870

The 1870 War Museum is located in Orgères-en-Beauce, in Eure-et-Loir, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. Situated in the House of Public Services, it is dedicated to the history of…

2 Rue de l'Arsenal

Musée du Véron

The Véron Museum is an ecomuseum located in a rural area in Savigny-en-Véron, in Indre-et-Loire, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. Labeled with the official designation, it is par…

80 Rte de Candes, 37420 Savigny-en-Véron, France

Atelier-musée de l'imprimerie, Le Malesherbois

The Atelier-Musée de l'Imprimerie, located in Le Malesherbois in the Loiret, is an institution. The museum explores the history of printing and its techniques, from the origins of…

70 Rue du Gén Patton, 45330 Le Malesherbois, France

Musée du Berry

The Berry Museum is a multidisciplinary museum located in Bourges, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It preserves collections covering a broad chronology, from prehistory to conte…

5 Rue des Arènes, 18000 Bourges, France

Musée du château Charles VII

The Charles VII Castle Museum, located in Mehun-sur-Yèvre in the Cher department, occupies a "keep" restored at the end of the 19th century. A major defensive site in the Yèvre val…

2 Pl. du Gén Leclerc, 18500 Mehun-sur-Yèvre, France

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

Collections du musée de la société archéologique de Touraine

The museum of the Archaeological Society of Touraine, located in Tours in Indre-et-Loire, brings together archaeological and historical collections relating to Touraine and the reg…

37 Av. André Malraux, 37000 Tours, France

Musée ornithologique

The Écomusée de la Brenne, located in Blanc in Indre, occupies the Naillac castle, a fortress overlooking the Creuse for over eight centuries. Founded in 1986, it is built around a…

Château Naillac, 36300, France

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

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

Musée Estève

The Estève Museum, housed in the Hôtel des Échevins in Bourges, is dedicated to the work of painter Maurice Estève (1904-2001), a major figure in twentieth-century abstract paintin…

13 Rue Edouard Branly, 18000 Bourges, France

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

Musée Saint-Vic

The Saint-Vic Museum is located in Saint-Amand-Montrond, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. It benefits from a label attesting to its registration within the French regulatory fram…

Cr Manuel, 18200 Saint-Amand-Montrond, France

Musée des sapeurs-pompiers d'Eure-et-Loir

The Museum of Firefighters of Eure-et-Loir is located in Bonneval, in the Centre-Val de Loire region. This establishment is dedicated to the history and heritage of firefighters, h…

108 Rue de Chartres

Musée Lansyer

The Lansyer Museum, established in Loches in Indre-et-Loire, occupies the former residence of Emmanuel Lansyer, a 19th-century landscape painter. Opened in 1902 according to the ar…

1 Rue Lansyer, 37600 Loches, France

Le Carroi, musée d'arts et d'histoire

Le Carroi is a museum of arts and history, located in Chinon in Indre-et-Loire. Established in the heart of the Loire Valley, it is part of the local cultural offerings of this reg…

44 Rue Haute Saint-Maurice, 37500 Chinon, France

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

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

Musée Girodet

The Girodet Museum is a museum located in Montargis, in Loiret (Centre-Val de Loire region), which has held the label since February 2003. It is dedicated to Anne-Louis Girodet-Tri…

2 Rue du Faubourg de la Chaussée, 45200 Montargis, France

Musée de la Corbillière

The Corbillière Museum is located in the heart of Corbillière Park in Mer, in Loir-et-Cher. It presents collections of works dating from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, hig…

Parc de la Corbillière, 3 Rue Fortineau, 41500 Mer, France

Musée Daniel Vannier

The Daniel Vannier Museum, located in Beaugency Castle, is a digital art center. Housed in a medieval and Renaissance building dating back to the Middle Ages and modified from the…

2 Pl. Dunois, 45190 Beaugency, France

Château-musée de Gien : chasse, histoire et nature en Val-de-Loire

The Gien Castle-Museum, located in Loiret in the Centre-Val de Loire region, is a museum. Situated in the Valley of the Kings, it combines the history of the castle with a collecti…

1 Pl. du Château, 45500 Gien, France

Château de Blois

Blois Castle has housed the city's Fine Arts Museum in the Louis XII wing since 1869. The collections, formed through donations from individuals, artists, and successive acquisitio…

Pl. du Château, 41000 Blois, France