Histoire & Patrimoine Museums in Normandie

Mémorial de Caen

The Caen Memorial is a history museum dedicated to major events of the twentieth century. Located in Caen in Normandy, it offers permanent exhibitions centered on World War II, the…

Esp. Général Eisenhower

Musée du Débarquement

The D-Day Museum in Arromanches-les-Bains, in Calvados, is dedicated to the operations of June 6, 1944 and the Battle of Normandy. The first museum created on this subject in the a…

Place du 6 Juin, 14 Pl. du Six Juin 1944

D-Day Experience

D-Day Experience is a military history museum located in Carentan-les-Marais, in Manche, dedicated to the Normandy Landings and the Battle of Carentan. The site offers an immersive…

2 Vge de l'Amont

Centre Juno Beach

Juno Beach Centre is the Canadian museum dedicated to World War II, located in Courseulles-sur-Mer in Normandy. Founded in 2003 by veterans and volunteers, it preserves the memory…

Voie des Français Libres

Musée Mémorial d'Omaha Beach - Saint Laurent sur Mer

The Omaha Beach Memorial Museum is located on the very site of the American naval landing of June 6, 1944, in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer in Normandy, in the immediate vicinity of Omaha…

Av. de la Libération

Musée de la Bataille de Normandie

The Normandy Battle Memorial Museum is located in Bayeux, in Calvados, at the gateway to the Landing beaches. It presents the military operations that took place in Normandy during…

Bd Fabian Ware

Abbaye de Jumièges

Jumièges Abbey is a landmark monument of Norman heritage located in Seine-Maritime. Founded in the 7th century, it embodies the religious and architectural history of the region. T…

24 Rue Guillaume le Conquérant

Musée de Dieppe (Château)

The Dieppe castle-museum, listed as a historic monument, is established in a fortified building located in Seine-Maritime, in Normandy. Its collections encompass local history and…

Rue de Chastes, Bd de la Mer

Musée de la bataille des haies

The Normandy Victory Museum is a museum dedicated to World War II and the Battle of Normandy, located in Carentan-les-Marais in the Manche department. Over 2,000 m², the museum off…

Parc d’Activités La Fourchette Catz Sortie

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

Le Tourp, maison de la Hague

Le Tourp, House of the Hague, is a heritage interpretation center located in Normandy, in the Manche department, at the heart of the Hague Geopark. Housed in a manor set within a p…

Manoir du Tourp

Mémorial de Falaise - Les Civils dans la Guerre

The Falaise Memorial – Civilians in War is a history museum located in Falaise, in Calvados, in Normandy. It is dedicated to the experience of civilian populations during armed con…

12 Pl. Guillaume le Conquérant

Musée de la Libération au Fort du Roule

The Museum of Liberation is located at Fort du Roule, in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, in Normandy. It falls into the category of local history and general history museums. The museum is…

Mnt des Résistants

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

Musée des Sapeurs Pompiers de France

The Museum of French Firefighters, located in Montville in Seine-Maritime, was created in 1993 at the initiative of André Martin, former mayor of the municipality. It is the result…

Rue Baron Bigot

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

Hôtel de Beaumont

The Hôtel de Beaumont is an 18th-century castle located in Valognes, in the Manche department, which functions as a heritage site and tourist attraction. The site offers guided tou…

9 Rue Barbey d'Aurevilly

Les Muséales de Tourouvre

The Muséales of Tourouvre, located in Normandy in the Orne department, constitute a museum complex dedicated to local heritage and regional history. The site brings together two mu…

15 Rue du Québec

Manoir de Donville-Mémorial de Bloody Gulch

The Bloody Gulch Memorial, located at Donville Manor in Méautis in Manche, is a museum dedicated to the history of the manor and the events of World War II. The manor, a cob buildi…

1 route de la chapelle

Musée d'art et d'histoire de Saint-Lô

The Museum of Art and History of Saint-Lô, also known as the Museum of the Norman Bocage, is located at the Bois Jugan farm. It operates according to the ecomuseum and open-air mus…

5 Pl. du Champ de Mars

Musée d’Art et d’Histoire de Lisieux

The Museum of Art and History of Lisieux is located in one of the last half-timbered houses in the city, a historic building that is an integral part of the visit. The collections…

38 Bd Pasteur

Musée gallo-romain de Lillebonne

Juliobona is a Gallo-Roman museum located in Lillebonne, in Seine-Maritime, in Normandy, in a rural territory. The museum is dedicated to the history of the ancient city establishe…

Pl. Félix Faure

Musée Nicolas Poussin

The Nicolas Poussin Museum is housed in an 18th-century bourgeois residence in the heart of the town of Les Andelys, in Eure. It traces local history from the prehistoric period to…

Rue Sainte-Clotilde

Musée de la Préhistoire

The Museum of Prehistory is an establishment located in Rânes, in Ariège, in the Occitanie region. Recognized as such under the Heritage Code, it falls into the category of museums…

le château

Musée Connaissance du Cotentin

The Cotentin Knowledge Museum is a local history museum located in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, in Manche. Its collections are housed in the buildings of a former 19th-century farm, pres…

Ham. Luce

Espace Hamilton-Levaufre

The Hamilton-Levaufre Space is a history museum dedicated to the liberation of Périers in Normandy, which took place on July 27, 1944 by the 90th American Infantry Division. Locate…

1 Bis Pl. du Général de Gaulle

Musée Jean-de-Béthencourt

The Jean-de-Béthencourt Museum is located in Grainville-la-Teinturière, in Seine-Maritime, in the Normandy region. It is part of the local and regional museum heritage. The museum…

13 Pl. du Marché

Chateau de la Fée d'Argouge

Rânes Castle, built from 1404 on the foundations of a former manor, constitutes a complex architectural ensemble combining a medieval keep and building structures from the 16th, 17…

Musee de la Guerre Mondial

The World War Museum, located in Tosny in Eure, is a private history museum dedicated to the Second World War. The museum houses a rich and varied collection including period docum…

Musée du Clou

The Nail Museum is a local history museum located in Saint-Cornier-des-Landes, in the new municipality of Tinchebray-Bocage, in Orne (Normandy). It bears witness to the heritage an…

Musée de la bataille de Tilly-sur-Seulles

The Tilly-sur-Seulles Battle Museum is a museum in a rural setting, located in Calvados in Normandy. It has been open since September 17, 2003. Dedicated to a major historical even…

18 Rue du 18 Juin 1944, 14250 Tilly-sur-Seulles, France

Musée de l'abbaye

The abbey museum is a museum in a rural area located in Cerisy-la-Forêt in Manche. It occupies the site of the historic abbey, of which it presents the history and heritage. The mu…

50680 Cerisy-la-Forêt, France

Château de Saint Germain de Livet

The Château de Saint-Germain de Livet is a building listed as a historic monument, located in Normandy near Lisieux in Calvados. Dating from the 15th and 16th centuries, it is dist…

D268, 14100 Saint-Germain-de-Livet, France

Musée municipal le vieux manoir

The Municipal Museum of the Old Manor is an institution located in Orbec, in Calvados, in the Normandy region. It falls into the category of museums in rural territory. Its collect…

107 Rue Grande, 14290 Orbec, France

Musée Louis-Philippe

The Louis-Philippe Museum is located in the Château d'Eu in Seine-Maritime, a former summer residence of the Kings of France. Labeled and classified as a House of Illustrious Figur…

Pl. Isabelle d'Orléans, 76260 Eu, France

MAHB musée d'art et d'histoire Baron Gérard

The Bayeux Tapestry Museum is currently closed for renovation work, with reopening scheduled for October 2027. Located in Bayeux in Calvados, in Normandy, it is one of three museum…

37 Rue du Bienvenu, 14400 Bayeux, France

Musée du prieuré de Graville

The Graville Priory Museum is located in Le Havre, in Seine-Maritime, in Normandy. Housed in the historic buildings of the priory, it constitutes a museum of France, labeled since…

53 Rue de l'Abbaye, 76600 Le Havre, France

Maison des templiers

The House of the Templars is a museum in a rural setting located in Caudebec-en-Caux, in the new municipality of Rives-en-Seine (Seine-Maritime, Normandy). A building dating from t…

1 Rue Thomas Bazin, 76490 Rives-en-Seine, France

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

Musée de l'ancien Havre

The Museum of Old Le Havre is a museum recognized under the Heritage Code. Located in Le Havre in Seine-Maritime, it is part of the history and heritage of this Normandy municipali…

1 Rue Jérôme Bellarmato, 76600 Le Havre, France

Musée du prieuré

The Priory Museum is located in Harfleur in Seine-Maritime, in the Normandy region. It occupies a historic building linked to the former priory of the site, reflecting the religiou…

50 Rue de la République, 76700 Harfleur, France

Musée et sites archéologiques de Vieux-la-Romaine

The museum and archaeological sites of Vieux-la-Romaine is a site museum located in a rural area, in the municipality of Vieux in Calvados, Normandy. It is, in the sense of the Her…

Route de feuguerolles, 14930 Vieux, France

Musée des antiquités de la Seine-Maritime

The Museum of Antiquities in Rouen is located in Seine-Maritime, in Normandy, and is part of the network of metropolitan museums in Rouen. Its collections span a broad chronologica…

198 Rue Beauvoisine, 76000 Rouen, France

Musée municipal de l'Avranchin

The Avranchin municipal museum, located in Avranches in Manche, occupies a historic building in the old town that served as a residence for the bishops of Avranches in the 12th cen…

Pl. Jean de Saint-Avit, 50300 Avranches, France

Musée de Normandie

The Normandy Museum is established in Caen, in Calvados. It is part of the network of heritage institutions recognized by the State. Located in the Normandy region, it is part of t…

Le Château Ducal - Musée des Beaux-Arts, Château de Caen, Château, 14000 Caen, France