The BnF Museum, also known as the Cabinet des médailles and Cabinet du roi, preserves numismatic and antiquities collections of the Bibliothèque nationale de France. It is one of the oldest French museums and is located in Paris.
CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux is a museum dedicated to contemporary and conceptual art. Opened in 1984, it is located in Bordeaux’s Chartrons district in the former Entrepôt Lainé.
The Muséum d'histoire naturelle de Bordeaux is a natural history museum in Bordeaux, Gironde, Nouvelle-Aquitaine. It is controlled by the Ministry of National Education, Higher Education and Research and supported by the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs of Aquitaine.
MO.CO. is a contemporary art institution in Montpellier. It was established as a public cultural cooperation establishment and operates as a multi-site structure with educational and exhibition functions.
The Musée départemental de l'Arles antique is an archaeological museum complex in Arles, opened in 1995. It is housed in a modern building designed by Henri Ciriani on the peninsula where the ancient Roman circus once stood.
Auditorium Maurice-Ravel is a performing arts building in Lyon, in the Part-Dieu district on Place Charles-de-Gaulle. Designed by Delfante and Pottier, it serves as the residence hall of the Orchestre national de Lyon.
Domaine de Grammont is a château and former Grandmont priory on the east side of Montpellier, near the Lez and the boundary with Saint-Aunès. It later became a viticultural property and, since the 1980s, a place for spectacles and sports.
Théâtre Jean-Deschamps is an open-air theater inside the medieval city of Carcassonne, in Aude, France. It has 3,097 seats and a removable translucent roof, and it is used for a summer multidisciplinary festival.
Grand Bazar de Lyon was an ancient department store located at 31, rue de la République in Lyon’s Cordeliers district. Founded in 1856 as À la ville de Lyon, it later became known as the Grand Bazar and was demolished in 2005.
The Roman amphitheatre of Purpan-Ancely is an archaeological site in west Toulouse that preserves the ruins of a Roman amphitheatre. Built in the middle of the 1st century, it is one of the few practically intact Roman buildings in the city.
The Musée national de l'Éducation is a national museum formed from educational collections that began in Paris under Jules Ferry and were later united in Rouen. Its holdings include books, pedagogical materials, scientific materials, and old school objects.
École supérieure d'art et design Le Havre-Rouen is an art academy and public cultural cooperation establishment with roots in the 18th and 19th centuries. Its history includes foundations in Rouen and Le Havre, periods of closure and reopening, and several relocations.
The Saint-Trophime cloister is part of the former cathedral of Arles. It has an approximately rectangular plan and communicates with the choir by a staircase of twenty-five steps. Its galleries combine Roman and Gothic construction, reflecting work from the 12th to the 14th century.
The château de la Briantais is a 19th-century château in Saint-Malo, Brittany, built between 1850 and 1864 for Eugène Sully-Brunet. It stands in a 27-hectare English-style park overlooking the Rance estuary.
The Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Dijon, also known as the Conservatoire Jean-Philippe Rameau, is a regional conservatory in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. It is a state-approved artistic education establishment offering music, choreography, and dramatic art.
Les casernes de la Part-Dieu are military barracks in Lyon’s 3rd arrondissement. Built on the former Part-Dieu redoubt site, they were designed for cavalry and artillery regiments and later housed successive cavalry units until the army left in 1962.
The Louis-Nucéra Library is the central municipal library of Nice, inaugurated as a library with regional vocation. It is named after writer Louis Nucéra and forms part of a complex beside the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art.
The Jules Verne Museum is a museum in Nantes established in 1978 in a large bourgeois house built from 1872 to 1878 by architect Ernest-Marie Buron. It was opened by artist-painter Jean Bruneau and Luce Courville.
The Municipal Casino of Cannes was a casino commissioned by the Cannes municipal council and designed by architect Camille Mari. It was later modernized in 1930 and demolished in 1979, when it was replaced by a gaming establishment in the Palais des festivals et des congrès de Cannes.
Centre hospitalier Saint-Jean-de-Dieu is a psychiatric hospital in Lyon’s Moulin-à-vent neighborhood, founded in 1824 by Paul de Magallon and Xavier Tissot. It serves the south of the Rhône department and had 517 beds in 2008.
The Musée national Eugène-Delacroix is located in Eugène Delacroix’s last apartment and studio in Paris. Founded in the late 1920s, it first opened with an exhibition on Delacroix and his friends and became a national museum in 1971.
The Bibliothèque nationale et universitaire de Strasbourg is an academic library located at Place de la République in the heart of Neustadt. It holds more than three million documents and is housed in a historic monument designed by August Hartel and Skjold Neckelmann.
Aquitaine Museum is a history museum in Bordeaux, located on cours Pasteur in the city centre. Its collections span prehistory, ancient and medieval periods, world cultures, Atlantic trade, and slavery.
Les Abattoirs is a cultural institution of modern and contemporary art in Toulouse. It brings together the city’s musée de France collections and regional contemporary art collections, and is housed in the preserved former municipal slaughterhouses.
Tour Silex 2 is an office tower in Lyon’s Part-Dieu business district. Completed in 2021, it was built against the former EDF tower and continues the Silex1 office building project. It is also known as tour newcleo.
Fort Saint-Jean is a fort in Lyon on the left bank of the Saône River. Originally called bastion Saint-Jean, it is part of the first belt of Lyon and occupies a site overlooking the river.
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Carcassonne was founded in 1836 and is located in the old city presidium. Its collections include paintings from the 16th to the 20th century and an important archaeological collection.
Villa Florentine is a 5-star luxury hotel in Lyon, located at the top of montée St-Barthélémy on Fourvière heights. It has a terrace, 34 rooms and suites, and a gastronomic restaurant.
Musée Saint-Remi is located on rue Simon in Reims, in the former abbey Saint-Remi, also known as the former Hôtel-Dieu. It presents collections ranging from prehistory to the Renaissance.
Hôtel de Murat is a private mansion in Carcassonne, Aude, on boulevard Camille Pelletan and several adjoining streets. Built from 1729 for Jean II Murat, it later served as the bishopric seat and now houses part of the Maison de la Région Occitanie.
Château de Flaugergues is a folly from 1696 in Montpellier, Hérault. Classified as a historical monument, it belongs to the Colbert family and forms the center of a vineyard estate in an urban setting.
Casino Municipal de Nice was a historic entertainment complex in Nice, at Place Masséna, built over the Paillon river between 1882 and 1884. It included gaming rooms, a restaurant, a grand hall, and performance spaces.
Maison Millière is a half-timbered house in Gothic style at 10 rue de la Chouette in Dijon. Built in 1483, it was classified as a historic monument in 1943.
Théâtre Montparnasse is a theatre building with a three-story facade designed by Charles Peigniet. Its decoration includes cornices, masks, balustrades, a tondo with Henri Larochelle, and caryatid herms.
The Odeon of Lyon, also known as the Odeon of Lugdunum, is a Roman archaeological site on Fourvière Hill. It stands beside the ancient Fourvière Theatre and forms a notable archaeological pair with it.
The Regional Conservatory of Lille is an artistic education institution in Lille, Nord, France. Approved and controlled by the French State, it offers training in music, choreography, and dramatic arts.
The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg is an art museum whose collections include paintings by Italian, Flemish, Dutch, French, and Spanish artists. Its holdings present a homogeneous collection and include works from the early Italian primitives to 17th-century painters.
The Musée de l'Œuvre Notre-Dame in Strasbourg is dedicated to arts from the Upper Rhine territories from the High Middle Ages to 1681. It is housed in the historic Œuvre Notre-Dame building near the Rohan Palace.
Villa Méditerranée is a public building in the 2nd arrondissement of Marseille, on the esplanade du J4 in the Joliette district. Designed by Stefano Boeri, it was inaugurated in 2013, closed in 2016, and reopened in 2022.
The Hôtel de Mademoiselle de Condé, also known as the hôtel de Bourbon-Condé, is a grand private townhouse at 12 rue Monsieur in Paris’s 7th arrondissement. Commissioned by Louis-Joseph, prince de Condé, it was designed by Alexandre-Théodore Brongniart for his daughter Louise-Adélaïde de Bourbon.
Académie Colarossi was a private art school founded around 1879 in Paris by the Italian sculptor Filippo Colarossi. It offered progressive instruction, including coeducational classes and access to nude models.
Château Thorenc is a château domain built around 1870 for the Duchess of Bedford. It later changed ownership, was divided into two villas in 1926, and was reconstructed by architects Louis Süe, Léon Le Bel, and Jean-Baptiste Dental.
Le Grand T is a performance hall in Nantes, France, mainly intended for theatre. Formerly called Espace 44, it is managed by EPCC Le Grand T, théâtre de Loire-Atlantique.
Salle Rameau is a municipal concert hall in Lyon’s Terreaux quarter, on rue de la Martinière. Inaugurated in 1907, it was built in Art Nouveau style and was among the first French halls designed specifically for symphonic music.
Cap Sciences is a Centre de culture scientifique, technique et industrielle in Bordeaux. Located on the banks of the Garonne near the Pont Jacques-Chaban-Delmas, it presents exhibitions and public activities on scientific phenomena, industrial applications, and technological know-how.
Château de Courtrai is an ancient castle built northeast of Lille on the order of Philippe le Bel after the siege of 1297. It was part of a wider system of fortifications linked to the Flemish War and later control of the city.
The Musée des beaux-arts de Marseille is the city’s oldest museum. Located in Palais Longchamp, it holds European paintings, drawings, and sculptures from the 16th to the 19th century, with a focus on artists from Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur.
The Nantes Museum of Arts is an art museum in Nantes, formerly known as the musée des Beaux-Arts de Nantes. Its collections offer an overview of major French and European artistic movements from the 15th century to the present.