The Estève Museum
In the heart of Bourges, the Hôtel des Échevins, a 10th and 22th century building, houses the Estève museum. Under renovation work, it will exceptionally be accessible free of charge to visitors from July 2024 to September XNUMX, XNUMX, in the afternoons. Visitors will be able to discover works by the famous contemporary artist Maurice Estève.
Esteve Museum
13 rue Édouard Branly, 18000 Bourges
+02 48 24 75 38 XNUMX
Open Tuesday to Sunday from 14h to 18h
Free admission
The House of Museums
The museums of Bourges are being transformed. To support this development, the Maison des Musées opened on May 10, 2023, place Etienne-Dolet. At the same time, a program outside the walls has started.
The City of Bourges has embarked on an ambitious program to renovate its museum offer. Its objective: more inclusive 21st century museums, more open to the territory and meeting the new expectations of the public and societal and environmental issues. This strategy for the future is supported by the City with all the more ambition as it is fully in line with Bourges's candidacy for the title of European Capital of Culture.
The Musée des Meilleurs Ouvriers de France becomes “the House of Museums”: workshops, conferences, debates, presentations of the collections will introduce the world of museums and the renovation project to tourists and Berruyères and Berruyers alike. On the mezzanine, the windows are reused to deploy a thematic presentation highlighting objects and works rarely, if ever, exhibited.
This year, the Maison des Musées team is aligned with the Paris 2024 Olympic Games and offers you an exploration of the museum collections which takes us to the fields and sports halls of Antiquity at the beginning of the 20th century. In a subjective and offbeat selection, numerous objects illustrate the Berruyer sporting world. The exhibition “Muses and athletes, sport comes out of its reserves” has been visible since March 13 and will close on January 4, 2025.
House of Museums
Place Etienne Dolet, 18000 Bourges
+02 48 57 82 45 XNUMX
maisondesmusees@ville-bourges.fr
Open from March 13, 2024 to January 4, 2025 from Wednesday to Saturday from 14 p.m. to 18 p.m.
the 1er July to August 31, 2024, open Monday to Saturday from 14 p.m. to 18 p.m.
Free admission
The Natural History Museum
Like many museums of its kind, it stands out for its impressive collection of naturalized species (more than 200.000 in reserve). OIn particular, he finds Hans, the oldest naturalized elephant in France in 1802. The Museum also has a section dedicated to the history of Man, a specialization on bats and also prestigious exhibitions hosted each year.
Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle
The banks of Auron
18000 BOURGES
+02 48 65 37 34 XNUMX
The Resistance and Deportation Museum
In Berry, the Second World War had a profound effect on the territory and its inhabitants as in many French regions. This modern museum with scenography pointed is there to remind it. Here and more than elsewhere, the emphasis is on history singular of the department of Cher, cut in 2 by the line of demarcation. Numerous testimonials and anecdotes tell us about this dark history and contribute to fulfilling our duty to remember.
Museum of Resistance and Deportation
Departmental Archives website
Rue Heurtault de Lamerville, 18000 Bourges
+02 48 55 82 60 XNUMX
Museum of Trains and Military Crews
The Bourges military schools house the Museum of Trains and Military Crews, belonging to the network of fifteen military museums under the responsibility of the Army Heritage Delegation. (In August, open by reservation).
The route of the permanent exhibition of the Train collection was transferred in 2020 / 2021 to a more spacious and bright building to welcome you in a modern setting. This visit, intended for children (with its children's route) as well as adults, will reveal the evolution of the weapon of the Train in the service of France, since its creation in 1807, by the Emperor Napoleon 1st, until nowadays.
Museum of trains and military crews
Avenue de Dun, 18000 Bourges
+02 48 68 74 50 XNUMX
