Musée de la batellerie, Maritime transport museum in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, France
The Musée de la batellerie is a maritime transport museum in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine dedicated to river boat history. It displays ship models, tools, and equipment that show how people used rivers and canals as shipping routes.
The museum was founded in 1965 by Louise Weiss and is housed in the Château du Prieuré. It received official recognition as a national museum in 2003.
The place draws visitors interested in river shipping heritage and serves as a repository of memories about this vanished way of working life. The displays show how barges and tugboats once shaped daily commerce and trade along French waterways.
The museum has a documentation center for researchers and offers learning programs for school groups. Most visitors should allow time to explore the vessels and exhibition spaces.
Visitors can explore actual historic tugboats such as the Jacques and Triton 25, with the latter built in 1954 as the last of its type. These working vessels give a direct sense of how people navigated these waterways.
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