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 !


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...

Art and History Museum

CHINON

Le Carroi is an art museum located in a 15th century historic building. Inside you can discover the "Cape of Saint...

Mushroom Museum

SAUMUR

Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent. Cultivated mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, blewitts and Shii-Take are grown in the mysterious...

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...

Maison du Souvenir – Memory House

MAILLÉ

On 25th August 1944, while Paris celebrated its liberation, 124 inhabitants of the village were tracked down and...

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...

The steam train of Rillé

RILLE

For everybody: take a ride in an old steam train. For members of the association: railway maintenance workshops and...

Musée Joseph-Denais

BEAUFORT-EN-ANJOU

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