Musée de Normandie

About

The Normandie Museum is a municipal museum of the city of Caen in the department of Calvados in the Normandy region. Founded in 1946, it was opened in the enclosure of Caen Castle in 1963. Originally dedicated to ethnography, the museum extends to archaeology, with a room opened in 1968, and collections that enrich themselves with the numerous archaeological excavations carried out in the department until the 1980s.

The Museum of Fine Arts in Caen is housed in the castle and opened in June 1970. In 2001, more than 80,000 objects were preserved and the material and cultural evolution of the populations of the historical region of Prehistory in the 20th century was illustrated. To accompany a sustained policy of temporary exhibitions since the end of the 1970s, the museum is the subject of special attention with the construction, in the enclosure of the castle, of the so-called halls of the rampart in the early 2000s and the presentation of the church Saint-Georges as a central reception place for museums and the castle, as well as as as a place of interpretation of the site.

The Normandy Museum is a member of the Normandy museum network.