The best museums Poitou-Charentes

Rurart is a contemporary art center located in Rouillé, Vienne. Rurart offers several exhibitions a year, accompanied by extensive educational work with school audiences. The art center also supports contemporary creation by producing works by renowned artists such as Michel Blazy, Eva Kotatkova, Eduardo Kac and Koen Vanmechelen. In addition to its exhibitions, Rurart is also a multimedia center offering workshops, training courses and personalized support in the use of new technologies. For some years now, the art center has been exploring more specifically issues related to electronic play, and offers workshops throughout the year, such as the creation of a sound Escape Game. Finally, Rurart is part of a regional network of cultural initiatives in rural areas, developing projects for the dissemination and production of exhibitions, live performances, artist residencies and international cultural cooperation.

Rural museum with over 1 000 ancient objects, the agricultural universe of animal traction. In this house of bees, we discover the manufacture of honey and also taste it.

Prestigious Cognac house that saw itself succeeding ten generations over three centuries. There are also pineau, country wines, cocktails and liqueurs.

Monique Mas offers a superb collection of pedal cars, as well as old cars and other unique vehicles. She bought the first small car for one of her small children, and then he had to be satisfied with the following, and then the little malins blew the idea of making a collection! Since then, 400 pedal cars have landed in one of its four exhibition barns. This little museum is pretty well appointed.

After clearing the feudal motte of the commune in the s, the collected objects were stored in a small municipal hall. You can discover this modest collection by calling the mayor of Barbezière who will open the room.

Keith Hubbard offers in this little house of Piazza Ludovic Trarieux some very popular puppet shows from his collection. Performances are offered in English and French in July and August.

In a corner of the square of Tusson, the museum of Stained Glass offers a journey of discovery stages of production of the stained-glass windows and an exhibition of stained glass windows from the 19th and 20th centuries. The productions of Anne Pinto are also visible, just as the trainees as the museum welcomes all year round.