Château-musée Henri IV

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The castle-museum Henri IV, formerly the museum of Nerac, founded in 1872, is a municipal museum of history, art and archaeology located in Nerac (Lot-et-Garonne). The first museum in the Lot-et-Garonne, created under Armand Fallières' mandate, is rapidly enriched with diverse collections thanks to donations from the premises and national depots. It offers a typical 19th century encyclopedic museum.

The boundaries of the first place allocated to the museum (the former town hall) are felt and the restoration project of the Nerac castle was launched in 1919. The museum settled in the castle and opened to the public in 1935. After the war, on the occasion of the exhibition commemorating the fourth centenary of the birth of Henri IV, the museum abandoned the encyclopedic aspect of which it had inherited and focused on the history of Henri IV and his family (the Albrets) and the local archaeology before proposing, from 2016, a museum entirely oriented towards the Renaissance.