Pays-de-la-Loire
Histoire & Patrimoine Museums in Pays-de-la-Loire
31 museumsPays-de-la-Loire offers 31 museums dedicated to history and heritage. Noirmoutier Castle, the Blockhaus Hospital Museum and the Prehistory Museum - Saulges Caves Valley offer varied perspectives, from prehistory to modern fortifications. This region offers a unique journey through time across the periods that have shaped the territory. Discover below the 31 museums listed on The Artwork Room.
31 musées
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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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 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 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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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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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 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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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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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 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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