So focused on local history, our museums can fill you in not just on the traditions and customs of the area but also it’s flora and fauna too. By gum, what are all these sharks’s teeth around the place? Find out why they’re there !


Château of Montpoupon

CERE-LA-RONDE

This furnished château tells the story of the owners’ family life on a free tour with audio commentary, including a...

Maurice Dufresne Museum

AZAY-LE-RIDEAU

Maurice Dufresne Museum lies in a stunning former mill on the banks of the Indre in Azay-le-Rideau whose restored...

Loire Sailors Museum

CHOUZE-SUR-LOIRE

Sailors' artefacts, models of famous Loire boats. A museum packed with memories of the golden days of the port at...

House of the Regional Natural Park...

MONTSOREAU

Discovery of the evolution of this territory through the centuries: the Loire, hedged farmland, forests, hillside, etc....

L’Espace Muséal

DESCARTES

Located in southern Touraine, on the border with Poitou, this unique museum is a great place to learn about the history...

Royal Abbey of Saint Pierre de Bourgueil

BOURGUEIL

13 & 18th-century buildings. 10th-century ruins. Particularly remarkable are the refectory of the infirmary with its...

Le Saut aux Loups

MONTSOREAU

In Montsoreau, between Saumur and Chinon in the Loire Valley, Saut aux Loups is a troglodyte site on a hillside...

Street Art Parc

CANDES-SAINT-MARTIN

The museum of Urban Art in Candes-Saint-Martin is a unique place where nature and art meet and flourish. Les Oeuvres,...

Rochemenier, musée du village...

LOURESSE-ROCHEMENIER

Visit 2 of the 40 former underground farms in the village. Discover this troglodytic habitat: farm life, underground...

Quarry Museum

CHANNAY-SUR-LATHAN

The site has been set up in a former falun quarry (the result of a long transformation of petrified marine remains...

Véron Ecomuseum

SAVIGNY-EN-VERON

In the heart of the countryside, at the confl uence of the Loire and the Vienne, the écoMusée (museum of...

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