La Saga du Rhum, Rum museum in Saint-Pierre, Réunion, France

La Saga du Rhum is a museum on the Isautier distillery site in Saint-Pierre, Reunion Island. Its permanent route starts on the former cane delivery yard, where about twenty sugar cane varieties grow around a restored cane mill kept in place. Visitors then enter the working Isautier distillery and continue through an exhibition hall with archival documents, films and objects on the island's rum production.

The idea of a rum museum on Réunion took shape in 2001; in 2004 the distilleries Isautier, Savanna and Rivière du Mât signed an agreement to create a single reference site, built on the Isautier estate at Frédeline. The first stone was laid in October 2005, work was delayed by the chikungunya crisis, and the museum was inaugurated on 5 December 2008, opening to the public two weeks later. In 2012 it passed 36,000 annual visitors and was classed a remarkable tourist site; its permanent tour was redesigned in 2025.

The museum is run by a SAS that unites Réunion's three working industrial distilleries: Isautier, Savanna and Rivière du Mât. Its shop, Le Dépôt de Rhums, sells their bottles. Outside the sugar-cane harvest, an old copper still distils fruit macerated in rum to make the alcoolats that flavour Isautier's punchs and rhums arrangés.

The visit starts on the former cane delivery yard, now the museum forecourt, where about twenty sugar cane varieties grow around a restored cane conveyor and mill. From August to December the working Isautier distillery adds smells of molasses, fermentation and distillation; the rest of the year a copper still is used. Allow time for the exhibition halls and tasting area.

The sugar-cane conveyor preserved in the middle of the museum parvis leads to a cane mill kept in situ and restored for the displays; it is the centrepiece of the collection. The visit then continues into the working Isautier distillery, the oldest still operating on the island.