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Bayeux
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Musée Baron Gérard
- Collection of fine art, porcelain
Musée de la Dentelle -
Lace Museum
Battle
of Normandy Memorial Museum
Baron Gerard Lace.
Porcelain Museum
Museum of Religious Art,
Clock Workshop.
Bayeux Lace Conservatory |
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Bernay |
Abbey Church Museum |
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Caen
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Memorial Peace Museum
Musée des Beaux Arts
Musée de Normandie not to miss
Mémorial
de Caen: explains the history of Caen from 1918 until nowadays but
especially the WWII.
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Cherbourg
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Thomas Henry Fine Arts Museum
Paintings by artists such as Millet, Fra Angelica, Filippo Lipi, David,
Brueghel de Velours and Guillaume Fouace. It is the third largest museum
of Normandy and has a collection of 300 paintings and sculptures of the
XVth to the XIXth centuries
Liberation Museum at the Fort du Roule |
Coutances |
L’Art du Bois -
Wooden
sculptures
Musée Tancrede: -
History
of Norman kings from Sicily
Musée du Manoir de Saussey |
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Dieppe |
Château-Musée
Built between XV and XVIII century
The Cité de la Mer
Museum and scientific and technical centre dedicated to fishing
techniques, naval construction and aquariums |
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Etretat
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Clos Lupin
Museum dedicated to the gentlemen burglar
Arsène Lupin . This character of Maurice Leblanc is very popular and
considered a combination of Robin Hood and Don Juan with an eye for the
ladies. Like the
English Raffles he is at both times a gentleman and burglar . Go to
http://www.arsene-lupin.com
to find out more. The Museum is
surrounded by lovely gardens and the house is beautiful.
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Falaise |
Automates
Avenue
Museum. |
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Fecamp
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Musée Centre des Arts
Exhibits porcelain, tiles and paintings
Musée des Terre Neuvas et de la Pêche
Dedicated to the French fishermen who went to Newfoundland
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Granville
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Christian Dior Museum.
Situated in the designer’s childhood home
Wax museum
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Honfleur
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Musée Boudin
Dedicated
to Eugene Boudin and those forming “Rencontre de Simeon” avant-garde of
Impressionism |
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Ile
de Tatihou |
Musée Maritime
Displays of boats and fishing equipment plus a bird watching observatory,
a shipyard and marine botanical gardens |
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Le Havre
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Musée de l’Ancien
Details the city’s history from 1517
Andre Malraux Fine Arts Museum:
Art collection.
Andre Malraux Fine Arts Museum
The museum has an impressionist exhibition which includes the work of
local artist and "Fauvist", Raoul Dufy.
Musée de l’Ancien Havre
Details the city’s history from 1517. |
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Lisieux |
Le Musée d’Art et d’Histoire
Beautiful building as well.as a museum. |
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Rouens
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Musee Flaubert
Museum of the 19th century writer Flaubert
Musée des Beaux Arts
European painting from the 14th century to nowadays |
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Vernon |
The Poulain
Museum
Massive amount of information regarding prehistory and also has a huge
collection of impressionist paintings including Monet. |