The best museums Picardy

The Academic Society, which is essential for historical research as well as the preservation of the local heritage, has housed in its premises a little known museum, which presents an important collection of more than 300 silex, Pointes and Levalllois points, but also microlithes and pointes pointes, or even polished stone axes of the Neolithic.

Set in the old mill of the village, this museum presents the result of excavations carried out in the territory of the commune, the Gallo-Roman site. There are also collections of fossils and an exhibition of objects from the excavations of a Gallo-Roman necropolis. Religious art is represented here with his sacerdotal clothes accompanied by objects of worship and piety, and presentation of uniforms of soldiers, officers and civilians from 1870 to the present. The Musée des métiers d'antan re the workshop of the carpenter, the blacksmith, the marshal-farrier. A not miss: a real Ali Baba cave of the 1950 s.

The birthplace of Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794) was built at the end of the th century by the family of Gaudry, the maternal branch of Condorcet. It remains private property until 1989, the date of its acquisition by the commune of Ribemont. Opened in 1994 to 1998, and fully restored from 1998 to 1999, it has been reopened to the public since June 2000. This museum is composed of seven rooms, the life of Condorcet and other famous native Hommes. The visitor will also find a history of the municipality.

The Museum of Old Corbie exhibits documents and objects of art on corny life: If you love literature, archeology and history, you will find reproductions of very famous manuscripts, evoking the remarkable library of the Abbey. The museum also evokes the fate of the city's figures: Saint Colette and Eugene Lefebvre, a pioneer of aviation born in 1878 in Corbie, who was the first pilot killed in an airplane accident.