Museums in Aveyron

Aveyron museums

Aveyron offers several museums presenting different themes, including archaeology, arts and popular traditions, history and the prehistoric era, religion, geology, and more.

1. Le musée Fenaille de Rodez
2. Le musée Denys Puech de Rodez
3. Le musée de Millau
4. Le site de la Graufesenque à Millau
5. Le musée François Fabié à Durenque
6. Les 3 sites du Musée du Rouergue
7. Le Trésor de l'Abbaye de Conques

This Musée d'Archéologie et d'Histoire du Rouergue presents an exceptional collection of menhir statues.
Average visits last 1 hour. Open all year-round. Self-guided visits, with possibility of guided tours .

Just a few feet away from the musée Fenaille, you can visit the musée Denys Puech. Sculpture is what link both museums. It was founded in 1903 by the Aveyronnais sculptor Denys Puech (1854-1942), winner of the prix de Rome in 1884 and one of the official sculptors of the French Third Republic. Since 1989 it has been the relay for modern and contemporary creations through a number of exhibitions and purchases, which include works by François Bouillon, Michel Cure, Martine Damas, Rolino Gaspari, Bernard Pagès, Carmen Perrin… François Morellet thus created « Intégration », a sculpture adorning the south and north facing gables of the museum.

Here there is combined archaeological and leather museum, covering geology, prehistory, regional archaeology, and tracing the history of glove making. Visits last about 1 hour. Open throughout the year.

Archaeological site, pottery workshop, dwellings and sanctuaries. Duration of the visit: 45 minutes. Open throughout the year.

A museum dedicated to the life and works of poet François FABIÉ (1846-1928), set in a typical Rouergat room of the 19th century.

Montrozier : Musée archéologique du Rouergue
This departmental archaeological museum houses exhibitions of the local archaeological heritage. Duration of the visit: 45 minutes.

Salles la Source : The Musée des Arts et Métiers traditionnels du Rouergue is organised in 4 sections: Agricultural Machinery from the Past (mills and presses), The Relationship between Man and Nature (museum of agriculture forestry and wood transformation), Man and Minerals, and finally Man and the Animal Kingdom (hunting, fishing, rearing).
See the Reconstruction of a Traditional Winery, a Woollen Spinning Workshop of the 19th century, and the Planetarium.
Duration of the visit 1h 30.

Salmiech : The Museum of Rustic Carts (Musée du Rouergue) focuses on rural transport before motorization, with a large collection showing the history of the wheel, horse and ox-drawn vehicles, local crafts relating to transport, and objects from agricultural life in Ségala). Duration of the visit 1h.

Treasures of the abbey include gold work and religious art from the Middle Ages to the 18th century, and the famous reliquary statue of Sainte Foy.
Duration of the visit: 2h. Open throughout the year. Visits unaccompanied.
Possibility of group tours by appointment.