Histoire & Patrimoine 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

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

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

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

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 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 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 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 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

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

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

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 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 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

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…

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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

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 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

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

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 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

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 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

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

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