The best museums Var

This cannon tower was built in 1634 and reinforced by Vauban, and served as protection in Toulon harbour crossing its fire with those of the Royal tower. Since 1970, the fort became a naval museum with local maritime history, with permanent exhibitions dedicated to the history of the prison in Toulon and overseas, life convicts, plus temporary exhibitions to discover (inquire by phone).

The Var is one of the few French departments to have a Natural History Museum dedicated to the development of its natural heritage. It allows us to discover in its permanent exhibitions the natural Riches of Toulon and Var through the various disciplines that make up the Earth and Life Sciences. The challenge is to raise public awareness of the diversity of spécimens specimens (27 000 insects listed), herpétologie (61 species) and mammologie (of the 250 terrestrial mammals represented, 70 are present in Var). In its collections, the museum has 978 species of birds, many of which are present in this department which is among the richest in France (167 breeding bird species). With a palette of about 2500 plants, the flora of Var is also one of the most notable in France. The museum also gathers windows dedicated to Prehistory, mineralogy, ethnology or paleontology, allowing the observation of a skeleton of ptérosaure, fossils and remarkable agrarian tools.

Built between 1880 and 1887, this museum offers ancient and modern art collections on the theme of Provence from the 17th to the 20th century, contemporary and photographic. The temporary exhibitions are taking turns and they differ from one another, the museum gathers some parts of the 17th-century Italian School, the series of portraits of the 18th and 19th centuries French School, as well as the 19th-century French Landscape School, which is one of the major themes of the collection.