Espace enfants
Art and History Museums
Musées d'Art et d'Histoire are three museums and monuments listed as historic buildings because of their outslanding. There are composed of two mansions (one of the 17th century, the other of the 18th century) and an abbey (11th century - 18 th century).
Shipowner's mansion
TEMPORARY CLOSURE
Around 1790, Paul-Michel Thibault (1735 – 1799), the architect of le havre fortifications and hydraulic engineer, decided to build a mansion in the wealthy and coveted district of the city.
In 1800, Martin Pierre Foache, a wealthy merchant, bought the house as a winter residence and installed his trading office there. He asked another architect, Pierre Adrien Pâris, former designer for the king, to decorate the interior.
The façade is typical of the architecture of the Louis XVI period. It is extremely carefully designed ; the parquet flooring of rare and exotic wood adjoins stone-tiled floors with geometric designs. The rooms are laid out around a central octogonal light-well.
Graville Abbey
1er April to 1er November 2026
Graville Abbey, located between Deauville and Etretat, overlooks Le Havre and the Seine estuary. Its abbey church, a masterpiece of Romanesque art in Normandy, underwent several periods of construction between the 11th and 13th centuries. The convent buildings (11th–18th centuries) house a museum with some of the finest religious statuary in Normandy. Medieval stonework, liturgical objects and a collection of models of houses from the late 19th and early 20th centuries illustrating human habitation complete the ensemble. The Abbey is surrounded by terraced gardens that are freely accessible for walking and leisure activities.
Dubocage de Bléville Hotel Museum
LITTLE SAILS
From 8 February 2025
To celebrate the Year of the Sea, and in conjunction with the "Grandes Voiles" event in summer 2025, Le Havre's Museums of Art and History invite you to plunge into the fascinating world of Le Havre's maritime collections.
These "little" sails, displayed on the first floor and in two rooms on the second floor, celebrate the great hours of sailing and the city of Le Havre from the 16th to the mid-19th century. Shipbuilding, ship typologies and portraits, maritime activities: fishing, military, merchant, sporting and artistic worlds will be evoked through a selection of graphic works, paintings, models and objects of art or curiosity. Never-before-seen acquisitions, recently-restored drawings and old heritage collections examine the image of the sailboat in its many dimensions: functional, aesthetic, artistic, poetic and symbolic.
Gathered in the heart of a historic district, in the home of Michel Joseph Dubocage, ship?s captain, privateer and explorer, they make up, for the duration of their exhibition, a rich and surprising fleet, reflecting the history of our port city.
