Museums in France

17 museums holding antiquities, coins and archaeology collections.

Musée départemental Arles antique
Arles — Roman Arles and the Rhône barge.

Musée Calvet
Avignon — Egyptian and Classical antiquities.

Musée d'Aquitaine
Bordeaux — Aquitaine from prehistory to the wine trade — home of the Laussel Venus.

Musée de Normandie
Caen — Norman history and archaeology in William the Conqueror's castle.

Musée Vivant Denon
Chalon-sur-Saône — Regional archaeology.

Musée Champollion
Figeac — Writing systems and Egyptology.

Louvre-Lens
Lens — The Louvre's northern outpost — its Galerie du Temps spans 5,000 years.

MuCEM
Marseille — Mediterranean civilizations.

Musée de la Romanité
Nîmes — Roman Nîmes.

Musée du Louvre
Paris — Near Eastern, Egyptian, and Classical antiquities.

Musée Rodin antiquities
Paris — Rodin's antiquities collection.

Vesunna Gallo-Roman Museum
Périgueux — A Roman townhouse preserved under glass by Jean Nouvel.

Musée de Bretagne
Rennes — Brittany's history from menhirs to modern times.

Musée d'Archéologie Nationale
Saint-Germain-en-Laye — Gaulish and Merovingian finds.

Musée Archéologique de Strasbourg
Strasbourg — Alsace's archaeology beneath the Palais Rohan.

Musée Saint-Raymond
Toulouse — Roman antiquities.