Cité du Volcan, Volcanology museum in Le Tampon, Réunion Island, France

The Cité du Volcan is a museum in Bourg-Murat, a village of the Plaine des Cafres in the Hauts of Le Tampon, Réunion. Its building has a tall, sharply pointed central form clad in offset rows of light grey or beige rectangular panels, with a dark ridge line running from the peak down the left edge. A lower wing on the right is faced with square stone blocks in varied pale tones, and a low wall in front carries a sign reading "MAISON DU VOLCAN" in pink capital letters.

The museum opened in 1992 as the Maison du Volcan, driven by volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft, who studied Piton de la Fournaise eruptions and died together on 3 June 1991 in a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen, Japan. Between 2011 and 2014 the site was fully rebuilt, growing from 1,600 to 6,200 m2 under Patrice Huet, named scientific director in 2013. It reopened on 5 August 2014 with a new museography by Nathalie Chauvier and Nicolas Béquart of the agency Les Crayons.

The museum owes its existence to volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft, who studied Piton de la Fournaise's eruptions and died together on 3 June 1991 in a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen, Japan. Its name changed from Maison du Volcan to Cité du Volcan in 2011, and the sign reading "MAISON DU VOLCAN" still stands at the entrance.

The museum lies at Bourg-Murat in the Plaine des Cafres, in the highlands of Le Tampon, reached by road from the coast. The building covers 6,200 m² after the 2011–2014 rehabilitation, so allow time for the permanent exhibitions on world volcanoes and the Piton de la Fournaise. The entrance is at the base of the central pyramid, where the maroon lattice meets low white walls.

The museum's existence is largely owed to volcanologists Maurice and Katia Krafft, who studied Piton de la Fournaise eruptions and died together on 3 June 1991 in a pyroclastic flow on Mount Unzen, Japan. The 2011–2014 rehabilitation, led by Patrice Huet, expanded the site from 1,600 to 6,200 m².