Musée des Terre-Neuvas, Maritime history museum in Fécamp, France.
The Musée des Terre-Neuvas is a maritime museum in Fécamp that displays extensive collections of fishing equipment, boat models, and nautical artifacts. These objects document the story of the local fishing industry across several centuries.
The museum was founded in 1988 and documents the fishing tradition that shaped Fécamp over hundreds of years. The collection shows how the city was built through its connection to the sea and the fishing industry.
The museum preserves memories of generations of fishermen who sailed from Fécamp to Newfoundland, showing their tools, techniques, and daily experiences. These stories come alive through objects and photographs displayed throughout the rooms.
The museum building stands facing the sea in Fécamp, with a low red brick wall in front bearing its name and a large black anchor lying on the grass. It has been closed since 31 December 2012; the collections are now shown at Les Pêcheries, quai Capitaine-Jean-Recher, in the heart of the port.
The museum's centrepiece was the caïque Notre-Dame de Bonsecours, a 9.48 m clinker-built boat launched in 1948 at the Jouan-Fiquet yard in Fécamp for the Yport skipper Marcel Ebran. It fished for herring and mackerel with lines and could reach the Isle of Wight in ten hours. Bought by the town in 1984, it was restored to its original rig.
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