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Museums in Pays-de-la-Loire
90 museumsExplore museums in Pays-de-la-Loire: art, history, sciences and heritage.
90 musées
Musée d’arts de Nantes
The Nantes Museum of Fine Arts is located in Nantes in Loire-Atlantique. It presents nine centuries of visual arts, from the Middle Ages to the contemporary period, through its col…
10 Rue Georges Clemenceau
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Château de Noirmoutier
Noirmoutier Castle, built at the end of the 12th century by Pierre V de la Garnache, has dominated the island of Noirmoutier for more than eight hundred years. Listed as a historic…
Pl. d'Armes
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Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle
The Natural History Museum of Nantes is a research and conservation institution. Its collections cover several fields: zoology, earth and space sciences, botany, ethnology, and his…
12 Rue Voltaire
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Muséum du Coquillage
The Shell Museum, located in Les Sables-d'Olonne in Vendée, is a museum dedicated to collections of shells, corals and marine minerals. It houses approximately 50,000 pieces organi…
8 Rue du Maréchal Leclerc
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Musée Jules Verne
The Jules Verne Museum in Nantes is dedicated to the writer and his literary universe. Inaugurated in 1978 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Jules Verne's birth, it prese…
3 Rue de l'Hermitage
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Musée Robert Tatin
The Robert-Tatin Museum is an open-air museum and house-museum located in Cossé-le-Vivien, in Mayenne. It falls into the categories of Illustrious Houses and museums in rural terri…
La Maison des Champs
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Musée du Blockhaus Hôpital
The Blockhaus Hospital Museum is located in the heart of Les Sables-d'Olonne, in Vendée. It is housed in a German blockhouse built in 1943, which has remained intact and been conve…
Rue de Verdun
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Musée de Préhistoire - Vallée des Grottes de Saulges
The Museum of Prehistory of the Saulges Caves Valley, located in Thorigné-en-Charnie in Mayenne, offers an immersion into Prehistory through the visit of two caves and a dedicated…
650 La Roche Brault
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Musée Automobile de Vendée
The Vendée Automobile Museum is an establishment located in Talmont-Saint-Hilaire, in Vendée, in the Pays-de-la-Loire region. It is dedicated to the presentation and preservation o…
D949 Avenue des Sables
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Musée d'histoire de Nantes
The Nantes History Museum, located in the Castle of the Dukes of Brittany, traces the evolution of the city from its origins to contemporary times through 32 rooms and more than 1,…
4 Pl. Marc Elder
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Musée Jean-Lurçat et de la tapisserie contemporaine
The Jean-Lurçat and Contemporary Tapestry Museum is an Angers institution dedicated to contemporary tapestry. Located in Angers in Maine-et-Loire, it is part of the Angers Museums…
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Musée de l'illusion Nantes
Illusion Nantes is a museum located in Nantes, in Loire-Atlantique, in the Pays-de-la-Loire region. It is dedicated to the study and presentation of visual phenomena related to ill…
3 Rue Contrescarpe
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La Maison de l'Eau (Arche de la Nature)
The House of Water, main component of the Ark of Nature in Le Mans, is a natural history museum integrated into a 500-hectare complex dedicated to nature and local heritage. Its ap…
51 Rue de l'Estérel
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Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Angers
The Museum of Fine Arts in Angers, officially named the Museum of Fine Arts and David-d'Angers Gallery, is an establishment. Located in Angers in Maine-et-Loire, it is one of the c…
14 Rue du Musée
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Galerie David d'Angers
The David d'Angers Gallery is a museum dedicated to the work of sculptor Pierre-Jean David, known as David d'Angers (1788-1856), a major artist of the 19th century. Located in the…
33 Rue Toussaint
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Musée Dobrée
The Dobrée Museum is a public institution located in Nantes, in Loire-Atlantique. The museum presents multiple collections covering more than 500,000 years of history and originati…
1 Pl. Jean V
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Pierre et Lumière
Pierre et Lumière is a sculpture museum set up in a troglodyte site in Saumur, in Maine-et-Loire. It presents around twenty sculptures carved in tuffeau stone, a material character…
9204F Rte de Gennes
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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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Muséum des sciences naturelles
The Museum of Natural Sciences in Angers is a labeled establishment. It occupies two major sites: the Demarie-Valentin mansion and the former comtal palace in the city center, as w…
43 Rue Jules Guitton
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Centre Minier de Faymoreau
The Faymoreau Mining Centre is an ecomuseum located in Vendée in the Pays-de-la-Loire region. It is dedicated to the history of mining extraction in Vendée and Deux-Sèvres, territo…
la Cour
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Ecomusée de Saint Nazaire
The Écomusée of Saint-Nazaire traces the singular history of this port city located at the estuary of the Loire River in Loire-Atlantique. Its permanent collections document the ra…
15 Av. de Saint-Hubert
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La Cité du Lait
The Milk City is an interpretation center and museum dedicated to the world of milk, located in Laval in Mayenne. An establishment with educational and cultural purposes, it combin…
18 Rue Adolphe Beck
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Le Chronographe
The Chronographe is an archaeological museum located in Rezé, at the gates of Nantes, in Loire-Atlantique. Built on the remains of the Gallo-Roman city of Ratiatum, it offers an ex…
21 Rue Saint-Lupien
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Musée Jean-Claude Boulard - Carré Plantagenêt
The Jean-Claude Boulard Museum - Carré Plantagenêt is a museum located in Le Mans, in Sarthe, in the Pays-de-la-Loire region. Housed in a historic setting, it constitutes a major t…
2 Rue Claude Blondeau
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Musée du Château de Mayenne
The Mayenne Castle Museum is a site museum located in Mayenne, in Pays-de-la-Loire. It occupies the castle whose history it traces and presents associated collections. The museum o…
Pl. Juhel
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Musée Bernard Boesch
The Bernard Boesch Museum is an art museum located in Le Pouliguen, a coastal town in Loire-Atlantique in the Pays-de-la-Loire region. It is part of the local cultural landscape as…
35 Rue François Bougouin
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L'Hélice Terrestre de l'Orbière
The Terrestrial Helix of Orbière is a contemporary visual arts space located in the troglodytic village of Orbière, in Maine-et-Loire. The site is centered on a monumental sculptur…
161 L'Orbière route de
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Musée Atelier de l'Imprimerie de Nantes
The Museum Workshop of the Nantes Printing House, located on the Fosse Quay, is a repository of materials, techniques and printing trades. It offers daily guided tours with demonst…
24 Quai de la Fosse
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Manoir des sciences de Réaumur
The Manor of Sciences of Réaumur, located in Réaumur in Vendée, is a scientific and historical museum dedicated to the life and works of 18th-century natural physicist René-Antoine…
8 Rue Ferchault
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Musée des Métiers de St Laurent de la Plaine en Anjou
The Museum of Trades is located in Saint-Laurent-de-la-Plaine, in Mauges-sur-Loire (Maine-et-Loire). Since 1970, it has displayed its collections over approximately 5,000 m² spread…
Place de l'Église
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MANAS | Musée d'Art Naïf et d'Arts Singuliers
The MANAS, Museum of Naïve Art and Singular Arts, is located in the Old Castle of Laval, in Mayenne. It is one of four museum establishments managed by the city of Laval. The museu…
Pl. de la Tremoille
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Musée Charles Milcendeau
The Charles Milcendeau Museum, located in Soullans in Vendée, is an artist's house dedicated to the life and work of Charles Milcendeau. The museum occupies the artist's historic b…
Chemin du Bois Durand
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Zoom - Centre de culture scientifique, technique et industrielle
Zoom is a center for scientific, technical and industrial culture located in Laval, in Mayenne. It was created in 1996. The center offers exhibitions, activities and traveling tool…
21 Rue du Douanier Rousseau
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Musée national Clemenceau-De Lattre
The Clemenceau-De Lattre National Museum is a collection of two birthhouses located in Mouilleron-Saint-Germain in Vendée. It brings together the birthhouse of Georges Clemenceau,…
18 Rue du Temple
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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 des traditions de l'île de Noirmoutier
Located in La Guérinière in Vendée, the Museum of Traditions of the Isle of Noirmoutier offers a documented approach to the daily life of the island's inhabitants in past centuries…
Place de l'Église
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Prestige et Collection
The Prestige et Collection museum is located in Beaupréau-en-Mauges, a municipality in Maine-et-Loire in the Pays-de-la-Loire region. As a general-purpose museum, it houses collect…
10 Rte d'Andrezé
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Musée du Mange-Cailloux
The Stone-Eater Museum, located in a former school in Mortagne-sur-Sèvre in Vendée, is dedicated to mineralogy. It offers a modern and recreational approach to mineral science, com…
1 Rue Belle Allée
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Musée Joseph-Denais
The Joseph-Denais Museum is a museum located in Beaufort-en-Anjou, in Maine-et-Loire. Founded in 1894 from the personal collection of Joseph Denais, a local scholar and passionate…
5 Place Notre Dame
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Musée de la Résistance de Châteaubriant
The Museum of Resistance in Châteaubriant, created in 2001, is located on the site of the Quarry of the Executed, a major place of memory from World War II. Managed by the Associat…
La Sablière
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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 des Métiers de la Chaussure
The Shoe Crafts Museum is located in a former shoe factory in Sèvremonie, in Maine-et-Loire. It documents the industrial expertise that marked the history of the Mauges and Choleta…
6 Rue Saint-Paul
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Musée de la 2ème Guerre mondiale Roger Bellon
The Roger Bellon World War II Museum is located in Conlie, in Sarthe, in the Pays-de-la-Loire region. Housed at the Camp, it is dedicated to the history of World War II. The museum…
Camp, 1 Rte de Sillé
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La Cave aux Sculptures
The Cave of Sculptures is a sculpture museum located in Dénezé-sous-Doué, in Maine-et-Loire. It occupies a cavern whose history remains partly enigmatic and constitutes a singular…
7 Rue de la Caverne
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Musée de La Roche-sur-Yon - Espace Malraux
The La Roche-sur-Yon Museum – Malraux Space is a municipal museum located in La Roche-sur-Yon in Vendée. Since March 2023, it has been housed in the former André-Malraux kindergart…
17 Rue du Président de Gaulle
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Maison de la Meunerie
The House of Milling is a heritage site established in 1728 in Rives-d'Autise in Vendée, in the Poitevin Marsh. It comprises a functional water mill and constitutes a place of memo…
16 Rue du Moulin
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Musée Aéronautique Presqu'île Côte d'Amour
The Aéronautique Presqu'île Côte d'Amour Museum (MAPICA) is an association dedicated to the restoration and preservation of French aeronautical heritage, founded in 1980. Located a…
All. de l’Aéropostale
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Musée Jules-Desbois
Noyant-Villages · Maine-et-Loire
Musée Jules-Desbois
The Jules-Desbois Museum, located in Noyant-Villages in Maine-et-Loire, is dedicated to the work of sculptor Jules Desbois (1851-1935). The museum presents approximately one hundre…
1 Pl. Jules Desbois
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Musée Château de Villevêque
The Villevêque Museum-Château is a fortress built in the 12th century, located in Rives-du-Loir-en-Anjou in Maine-et-Loire. It houses the collection of medieval and Renaissance art…
44 Rue du Général de Gaulle
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Ecomusée Rural du Pays Nantais
Vigneux-de-Bretagne · Loire-Atlantique
Ecomusée Rural du Pays Nantais
The Rural Ecomuseum of the Nantais Region is a site museum established in Vigneux-de-Bretagne, in Loire-Atlantique. It is organized around several distinct locations: the Pâquelais…
81 Rue Anne de Bretagne
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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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Maquis de Saffré
The Maquis of Saffré is a memorial site dedicated to the French Resistance during World War II. Located in the Saffré forest in Loire-Atlantique near Nantes, it commemorates the ev…
Le Pass. du Houx
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Musée de la France Protestante de l'Ouest
The Museum of Protestant France in the West is located at the Bois-Tiffrais château in Monsireigne, in Vendée. A regional museum of Protestant history, it is managed by the Society…
Le petit Bois Tiffrais
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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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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 de la Fève et traditions populaires
The Blain Museum, located in Loire-Atlantique, is an institution dedicated to several heritage fields. It houses an important collection of Epiphany cake charms and nativity scenes…
2 Pl. Jean Guihard
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Musée d'art et d'histoire de Château Gontier
The museum of art and history of Château-Gontier, also referred to as the museum of art and archaeology, is located in Château-Gontier-sur-Mayenne, in the Pays-de-la-Loire region.…
2 Rue Jean Bourré
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Musée de l'Ardoise et de la Géologie
The Slate and Geology Museum is a site museum established in rural territory in Renazé, in Mayenne, in the Pays-de-la-Loire region. Labeled as a "museum of France" since 2003 under…
Longchamps
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Le Conservatoire des Vieux Métiers
The Conservatory of Old Trades is a local history museum located in Saint-Père-en-Retz, in Loire-Atlantique. Occupying an area of 1500 m², it brings together approximately 3200 too…
14 Chem. Sainte-Opportune
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Maison de la Mariée
Saint-Joachim · Loire-Atlantique
Maison de la Mariée
The House of the Bride is a museum dedicated to the workshops for creating waxed flowers in Saint-Joachim, located on the island of Fédrun in Loire-Atlantique. The museum presents…
182 rue du Pouët
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Maison de la Nature de la Grenouillère
Saint-Benoist-sur-Mer · Vendée
Maison de la Nature de la Grenouillère
The House of Nature at La Grenouillère, located in Saint-Benoist-sur-Mer in Vendée, is a scientific museum dedicated to the biodiversity of aquatic environments in the Vendée Grand…
18 Rue de l'Église
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Musée du Point de Beauvais
The Beauvais Point Museum is located in Bourg-le-Roi, in Sarthe, in the heart of this historic city in the Pays-de-la-Loire region. Entirely devoted to the art of Beauvais Point, i…
76 Rue du Point de Beauvais
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Musée André Deluol
The André Deluol Museum is a sculpture museum located in Saint-Michel-en-l'Herm in Vendée, in the Pays-de-la-Loire region. As an establishment dedicated to sculpture, it contribute…
4 Rue de l'Étendard
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Musée de la Coiffe
The Museum of Headdresses, located in Fresnay-sur-Sarthe in Sarthe, is dedicated to traditional headdresses formerly worn by women in the region. The collection features a wide sel…
3 Rue Saint-Sauveur
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Musée horlogerie de tiffauges
The Tiffauges Clock Museum is housed in a building dating from 1898, a former workshop for the construction of mechanical clocks intended for bell towers, train stations and châtea…
8 bis Rue des Moines
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Musée de l'Imprimerie Ancienne
Blain · Loire-Atlantique
Musée de l'Imprimerie Ancienne
The Museum of Ancient Printing is a workshop-museum founded in 1997 in Blain, Loire-Atlantique, in the former stables of the Groulais castle. Managed by the Amagraph association (F…
6 All. Olivier V de Clisson
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L'Orangerie, lieu d'exposition historique
The Orangerie is a historic exhibition venue located in Mortagne-sur-Sèvre, in Vendée. The building, a former orangery of the Beaussire family that subsequently became public baths…
Rue Nantaise
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Ecomusée de Brecé
The Brecé Ecomuseum is located on the ground floor of the presbytery, at Church Square, in the municipality of Brecé in Mayenne. It is dedicated to rural life at the end of the 19t…
Le presbytère, Pl. de l'Église
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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 des allumettes
The Matchstick Museum is located in Treillières, in Loire-Atlantique. Founded at the initiative of a passionate creator, it presents a unique collection of works made entirely from…
6 Rue de l'Alambic
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Musée vert Véron-de-Forbonnais
The Véron-de-Forbonnais green museum is established in Le Mans, in Sarthe, in the Pays-de-la-Loire region. It is, under the meaning of the Heritage Code, which attests to its compl…
204 Av. Jean Jaurès, 72100 Le Mans, France
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Château-musée de Saumur
The Saumur Castle-Museum is located on a promontory overlooking the Loire in Maine-et-Loire. A representative edifice of medieval princely architecture, the castle has experienced…
Esp. Hubert-Landais, 49400 Saumur, France
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Musée des arts et d'histoire et des guerres de Vendée
The Museum of Arts, History and Wars of Vendée is located in Cholet, in Maine-et-Loire. It occupies a contemporary architecture building situated in the heart of the city. The inst…
27 Av. de l'Abreuvoir, 49300 Cholet, France
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Musée ornithologique Charles-Payraudeau
The Charles-Payraudeau ornithological museum is established in La Chaize-le-Vicomte in Vendée, in the Pays-de-la-Loire region. It falls into the category of museums in rural territ…
Rue des Noyers, 85310 La Chaize-le-Vicomte, France
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Musée d'art moderne de Fontevraud - collection Martine et Léon Cligman
The Museum of Modern Art of Fontevraud - Martine and Léon Cligman Collection is an art museum located in rural territory, in Fontevraud-l'Abbaye in Maine-et-Loire. It bears the lab…
Rue Saint-Jean de l'Habit, 49590 Fontevraud-l'Abbaye, France
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Musée du vignoble nantais
The Museum of the Nantais Vineyard is a museum in a rural area located in Le Pallet, in Loire-Atlantique. It is dedicated to the history and heritage of the Nantais vineyard, with…
82 Rue Pierre Abélard, 44330 Le Pallet, France
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Musée espace faïence de Malicorne
The Espace Faïence Museum in Malicorne is dedicated to earthenware and ceramics, two areas of excellence in the region. Located in Malicorne-sur-Sarthe in Pays-de-la-Loire, this si…
Rue Victor Hugo, 72270 Malicorne-sur-Sarthe, France
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Muséum des sciences naturelles
The Museum of Natural Sciences is located in Angers, in Maine-et-Loire. As a public institution, it is governed by the Heritage Code. The museum offers collections and content rela…
43 Rue Jules Guitton, 49100 Angers, France
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Musée Pincé
The Pincé Museum is located in Angers in Maine-et-Loire. It is part of the network of Angers Museums, which brings together several heritage institutions covering fine arts, natura…
32 Rue Lenepveu, 49100 Angers, France
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Musée du textile
The Textile and Fashion Museum has been located since 1995 in a former bleaching factory built in 1881 by Calixte Ouvrard, one of the last witnesses to Cholet's textile activity, t…
Rue du Dr Roux, 49300 Cholet, France
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Musée du château des ducs de Bretagne
The museum of the castle of the Dukes of Brittany, located in the heart of the medieval district of Nantes, occupies a castle built at the end of the 15th century by Francis II and…
4 Pl. Marc Elder, 44000 Nantes, France
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Historial de la Vendée
The Historial de la Vendée is a museum located in Lucs-sur-Boulogne, in Vendée, in a rural setting of the Pays-de-la-Loire territory. Recognized as a museum of France, it offers an…
All. Paul Bazin, 85170 Les Lucs-sur-Boulogne, France
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Musée de la porte Saint-Michel
The Saint-Michel Gate Museum is a site museum located in Guérande, in Loire-Atlantique. It is part of a heritage approach recognized and supported by the Heritage Code. Located in…
Rue Saint-Michel, 44350 Guérande, France
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Musée des tisserands mayennais
The Museum of Mayenne Weavers, established in Ambrières-les-Vallées in Mayenne, is a rural territorial museum dedicated to textile practices and regional heritage. Labeled accordin…
Pl. Billard de Veaux, 53300 Ambrières-les-Vallées, France
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Musée de Tessé
The Tessé Museum is a cultural institution located in Le Mans, in Sarthe, in the heart of the Pays-de-la-Loire region. Labeled as a "museum of France" under the Heritage Code since…
2 Av. de Paderborn, 72100 Le Mans, France
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Musée de l'abbaye Sainte-Croix
The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Sainte-Croix Abbey, located in Les Sables-d'Olonne in Vendée, is dedicated to modern and contemporary art. Founded in 1963 by Pierre Ch…
Rue de Verdun, 85100 Les Sables-d'Olonne, France
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Musée de Fontenay-le-Comte
The Fontenay-le-Comte museum, founded in 1875 from the bequest of Eugène de Mouillebert, a collector and scholar from the town, is. Its permanent collections cover several fields:…
Pl. de Verdun, 85200 Fontenay-le-Comte, France
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Musée de la vigne et du vin d'Anjou
Ecomuseum located in the rural territory of Val-du-Layon, in Maine-et-Loire, the Museum of Vine and Wine of Anjou is devoted to the history and practices of viticulture in the regi…
Place des vignerons - Saint-Lambert-du-Lattay, 49750 Val-du-Layon, France
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Musée La Bourrine du Bois-Juquaud
The Bourrine du Bois-Juquaud is an ecomuseum and site museum located in Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez, in Vendée. It is part of an approach to preserve and promote local heritage. Its stat…
47 chemin bois Juquaud, 85270 Saint-Hilaire-de-Riez, France
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Musée de la reine Bérengère
The Queen Bérangère Museum is located in Le Mans in Sarthe. It is part of the institutional heritage of the Pays-de-la-Loire region and falls under the French Heritage Code. Its na…
7 Rue de la Reine Bérengère, 72100 Le Mans, France
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