Museums: the finest sites in France

Le musée d'Orsay

The Musée d'Orsay is a national museum in Paris, on the left bank of the Seine, in the 7th arrondissement.

Le musée du Louvre

The Louvre is the largest museum in Paris by area. Located in the heart of the city, between the right bank of the Seine and the Rue de Rivoli, in the 1st arrondissement, the building is a former royal palace.

Pointe du Hoc

A steep rocky promontory stormed by the American Rangers on 6 June 1944, whose ground, shattered by craters, and blockhouses still bear witness to the fighting.

Bibracte

Bibracte is at the summit of Mont Beuvray and the panorama is superb. You arrive by a fortified gate in the middle of a mysterious forest of twisted "queules" beeches.

Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais

Located in the heart of Paris, on the Avenue des Champs-Élysées, the Grand Palais is the emblematic monument of the Rmn-GP.

Mines de Bruoux

The Bruoux ochre mines are in the commune of Gargas.

Musée et sites de Saint-Romain-en-Gal- Vienne

The Saint-Romain-en-Gal archaeological museum is in Saint-Romain-en-Gal in the Rhône département above the archaeological site of the same name, in the heart of the ancient Roman city of Vienna.

Muséum national d'histoire naturelle

Seat of the natural history museums of France, the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle is in Paris.

Mémorial des enfants d'Izieu

In this house where 44 Jewish children and their educators were arrested in 1944 before being deported, a museum labelled Musée de France passes on their memory.

Palais des Beaux Arts de Lille

The Palais des Beaux-Arts is one of the leading French museums after the Louvre, thanks to its top-class collections.

Aeroscopia

Visiting Airbus is better understanding the challenge of the men and women who, every day, combine their skills in the service of one ambition: European civil aeronautics. Open all year round.

Aquarium de Biarritz

ArchéoMusée Coriosolis (ex-Centre d'interprétation du patrimoine Coriosolis)

Argentomagus

Arromanches 360

Overlooking the Arromanches site, the circular cinema "Arromanches 360°" projects on 9 screens the film "The Price of Freedom".

Atelier du musée de la soie

Base sous-marine de Lorient

The Lorient submarine base, or Keroman submarine base, is a complex of Second World War bunkers in Lorient in the Morbihan.

Batterie Todt

Batterie d'Azeville

Near Sainte-Mère-Église, a guided visit of a German coastal defence battery.

Blockhaus d'Éperlecques

Listed as a historic monument, the Éperlecques Blockhaus with its 90,000 tonnes of concrete is the largest blockhaus in the north of France, a witness of that dark period that was the Second World War (1939–1945). A 1h30 visit to discover and know the history of the Éperlecques Blockhaus…

CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux

Bordeaux offers one of the richest contemporary collections in France, in a unique place, the Entrepôt Lainé, a former colonial warehouse inseparable from the history of the city and its port.

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Cairn de Barnenez

The Barnenez cairn (Karn Barnenez in Breton) is a megalithic site in the commune of Plouezoc'h (in Brittany, France).

Carnuta, Maison de l'Homme et de la forêt

Carrière Wellington

Carrières de Lumières

In the heart of the Alpilles, the monumental Carrières de Lumières host multimedia shows unique in the world. Each year a major new show is offered presenting the greatest names in art history.

Carré d'art

Carré d'Art is a cultural facility in Nîmes bringing together the contemporary art museum and the classified municipal library.

Cathédraloscope

Caves de Roquefort Société

Visit of the Roquefort "Société" caves all year round including public holidays. The guided visit lets you discover the original site of Roquefort, its making and ageing in caves.

Centre Eden

Centre Georges Pompidou

The Georges Pompidou cultural and art centre, built on the Beaubourg plateau, aroused fierce controversy through the boldness of its architecture due to the architects Rogers, Piano and Franchini.

Centre Juno Beach

A place of remembrance in homage to Canadians and a cultural centre, the Juno Beach Centre, which opened its doors at Courseulles-sur-Mer on 6 June 2003, presents the civil and military war effort of the whole population of Canada and different faces of contemporary Canadian society.

Centre National de la Bande dessiné

The imaginary museums of comics. Library: 35,000 albums and monographs, 2,300 periodical titles representing 100,000 issues. Bookshop, children's workshops, cinema. Temporary exhibitions.

Centre Pompidou Metz

Centre d'art Le LAIT

Centre d'interprétation de la Marne

Set on the former Champagne front, the Marne 14–18 Interpretation Centre is at the crossroads of the Verdun and Chemin des Dames sites.

Centre de création contemporaine Olivier Debré

The main art centre in the Centre-Val de Loire region, the Contemporary Creation Centre of Tours now incorporates a historic collection of the painter Olivier Debré.

Centre de la Nature Montagnarde

Centre de la mémoire d'Oradour-sur-Glane

Centre historique minier de Lewarde

In the heart of the Mining Basin, the Lewarde Mining History Centre plunges you into the mining culture of Nord-Pas-de-Calais.

Centre international du Vitrail de Chartres

The International Stained Glass Centre is set in Chartres in one of the most remarkable Gothic cellars in France, a thirteenth-century building, listed as a Historic Monument.

Centre national du costume de scène

Chemin de fer miniature

One of the largest miniature railway installations in Europe in HO scale (1/87).

Chocolatrium

The Chocolatrium, a place for initiation to cocoa and chocolate.

Château Musée

Witness of the glorious or difficult hours of Dieppe, the only monument – with the churches of Saint-Rémy and Saint-Jacques – to survive the Anglo-Dutch bombardment of 1694, the Old Castle houses the town's maritime memory and one of the finest ivory collections in Europe.

Château de Montbéliard

The château de Montbéliard (also called the Château des ducs de Wurtemberg) dates from the thirteenth century.

Château de la Verrerie

Château-musée de Boulogne-sur-Mer