Museums

Museums in Vézère Périgord Noir

Our selection of museums in Vézère Périgord Noir, Dordogne. Our museums are sometimes national in stature, such as the Centre International d'Art Pariétal - Lascaux 4 and the History of Medicine Museum in Hautefort, or more unusual, such as the Kings of Araucania Museum at Tourtoirac or the Harmonium Museum in the church at Bars. Some of our museums serve our culinary culture with the Bovetti Chocolate Museum or the Cellar Museum in Lardimalie…

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Moulin à huile de noix de Maneyrol

Close to Terrasson and its magnificent "Jardins de l'Imaginaire", come and visit our mill specialising in walnut oil production. We use traditional methods to produce a fine and tasty oil so much sought after by both connoisseurs and amateurs of our region. Come and discover our production know-how...

Pazayac

Musée du Chocolat Bovetti

Chocolates and goodies. The museum tells the story of both cocoa and chocolate. For children, we propose a playful and educational visit adapted to the age of the children. Because "chocolate doesn't grow on trees... ", we explain all the stages from the harvest of the pod to the manufacture of the...

Terrasson-Lavilledieu

Site Néandertal de Regourdou

Located 800 metres above the Lascaux caves in Montignac in the Dordogne, the prehistoric deposit Le Regourdou is known as the burial site of the oldest Neanderthal ever discovered in Europe, dating from 80,000 years B.C. In 1957, Roger Constant revealed this archaeological treasure as he was searchi...

Montignac-Lascaux

Musée de l'industrie

Le Lardin-Saint-Lazare

Musée de l'Harmonium

Installed in the renovated church of Bars, the Museum of Harmonium presents a collection of instruments unique in France. A presentation of the main 19th century harmonium makers and the possibility to play on certain instruments. Open in July and August and during school holidays or by appointment....

Bars

Musée du Patrimoine Agricole et Automobile

Located in the Lot, this magical place is home to the collection of a true enthusiast who, from the age of 14, has never ceased to accumulate and preserve the mechanical and traditional heritage of his region. Benoit Jouclar has pushed his will to the limit to build one of the most important collect...

Salviac

Lascaux IV - Centre International de l'Art Pariétal

Lascaux reveals itself to you in the new setting of Le Centre International de l’Art Pariétal: more than 8500m2 of exhibition area, including a complete, unprecedented replica of the Lascaux prehistoric cave and six galleries tracing the history of its discovery, its place in the world's cave art, a...

Montignac-Lascaux

Musée d'Histoire de la Médecine

A 17th century Hôtel-Dieu, listed as a Historic Monument in 1931, featuring typical Renaissance Greek cross architecture. The central chapel has a pisé floor. Within it is a Mausoleum classified as a Historic Monument in which lie the body of Charlotte, Countess of Hautefort and the heart of her par...

Hautefort

Maison du Patrimoine

Terrasson-Lavilledieu

Musée des Rois d'Araucanie

Discover the extraordinary saga of Antoine de Touneins; born in 1825 in Chourgnac d'Ans, son of a Perigordian peasant, he left his native Dordogne in 1860 and managed to join the tribes of the far south of America. The Mapuche, a people of pre-Columbian origin, saw in him a hope of autonomy and proc...

Tourtoirac

Forge de Savignac Lédrier

This foundry on the banks of the Auvézère River, with water rustling in the background, is one of the most remarkable sites in the Périgord. Overlooked by the castle of the Masters of the Forge, the blast furnace still bears witness to bygone activity, and was the last in France to run on charcoal....

Savignac-Lédrier

Les pans de Travassac

Donzenac