Le Roc des Curiosités, Aquarium and curiosity museum at Pointe du Roc, Granville, France

Le Roc des Curiosités is an aquarium and natural science museum at Pointe du Roc in Granville. Its exhibits include the Mineral Palace, the Shell Gallery, and displays of butterflies, arachnids, and marine life. The site is not accessible to wheelchair users.

The facility began in the 1960s as a simple aquarium and gradually expanded over several decades into a comprehensive natural science museum. This growth allowed it to develop increasingly diverse collections and exhibitions.

The museum's marine route is staged as a walk through Captain Nemo's world, with the Nautilus and Jules Verne's novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas as its reference points. Granville, on the Cotentin coast facing the Chausey islands, has its own link to that seafaring imagination, and the displays invite visitors to read the tanks alongside the fiction.

Le Roc des Curiosités stands at the Pointe du Roc, on Boulevard de Vaufleury, at the end of the coastal road above the sea. The site is wheelchair inaccessible: the visit involves stairs and uneven paths, so plan accordingly. Parking is available near the Pointe du Roc; check opening hours before setting out, as the museum does not open every day of the year.

The museum sits at Pointe du Roc, the headland that closes the Bay of Mont Saint-Michel to the north; the site is reached by a coastal road above the cliffs. Its name, "Rock of Curiosities", refers to the granite point itself, where the collections were installed. Visitors arriving on foot pass the Pointe du Roc semaphore and lighthouse before reaching the entrance.