Musée d'Aquitaine, Regional museum in Bordeaux, France.
The Aquitaine Museum is a regional museum in Bordeaux displaying more than 70,000 objects from prehistoric times to the modern era across two exhibition floors. The collection ranges from everyday items to significant artworks and documents the region's development over millennia.
The site held the Feuillants and Visitation convents, destroyed during the Revolution; a high school built there burned down in 1871. The present building, the former Faculty of Letters and Sciences, was erected in the 1880s by municipal architect Charles Durand. The museum, formed in 1962 from the 1783 Lapidary Museum and other collections, moved in on 9 January 1987.
The museum holds African and Oceanic art objects that reflect Bordeaux's role in maritime trade and global connections. These pieces show how the city remained linked to distant cultures through its harbor activity.
The museum stands on cours Pasteur in central Bordeaux, near Tour Pey-Berland and Saint-André Cathedral. Tram line B stops at the Musée d'Aquitaine station, opened in May 2004, and line A at Hôtel de Ville. The permanent collections occupy two floors, with prehistory, protohistory, Roman and medieval pieces on the ground floor and the 18th- to 20th-century rooms upstairs.
The building itself is a lesser-known exhibit: it was built in the 1880s by municipal architect Charles Durand on the site of the former Feuillants and Visitation convents, and the museum moved in on 9 January 1987. Look for the carved relief panels between the upper windows of the facade.
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