Museums & art galleries

Museum - Interpreting centre
Lansyer House LOCHES
1 rue Lansyer 37600 LOCHES
02 47 59 48 21 https://www.ville-loches.fr/musee-lansyer-article-3-21-91.html
  • Categories
    • Musées de France
    • Municipal library
  • Equipment
    • Shop
    • Luggage storage
    • Play area
    • Reading area
    • Indoor children's games
  • Autres services proposés
    • Activities
    • Adult workshop
    • Junior workshop
  • On-site activities
    • Activities
    • Junior workshop
  • Visits
    • Educational Visit on request
    • Individual Guided Tour on request
    • Guided Group Tour on request
  • Other information
    • No coach park
    • Interior shop
Family home of landscape painter Emmanuel Lansyer (1835–1893), a student of Viollet-le-Duc and G. Courbet. Using sensory displays, explanatory texts accessible to all, and tailored guided tours, the museum presents the artist's works and life in a simple and easy-to-understand way.
Historical sites and monuments
Saint-Pierre Abbey Church PREUILLY-SUR-CLAISE
Place de l'abbaye 37290 PREUILLY-SUR-CLAISE
06 83 46 14 87 https://www.preuillysurclaise.fr
  • Categories
    • Listed or registered (CNMHS)
  • Equipment
    • Picnic area
    • Bar / refreshment bar
    • Electric charging station for vehicles
    • Shop
    • Play area
    • Accommodation
    • Parking
    • Catering on site
  • On-site activities
    • Activities
    • Conferences
    • Sound & Light
  • Parking
    • Bike parking
    • Coach park
  • Visits
    • Educational Visit on request
    • Individual Guided Tour on request
    • Guided Group Tour on request
  • Other information
    • No coach park
    • Playground
In 1001, the Lord of Preuilly Effroy founded the abbey, although most of the current edifice was built during the first part of the 12th century.It is one of the finest examples of Romanesque architecture in the Southern Touraine.Its floor plan is unique and its capitals are richly decorated.
Historical sites and monuments
Eglise Saint-Vincent CHEMILLE-SUR-INDROIS
Rue Maria 37460 CHEMILLE-SUR-INDROIS
02 47 92 60 75
  • Other information
    • No coach park
    • Playground
Museum - Interpreting centre
La Chancellerie LOCHES
  • PMR
8 rue du Château 37600 LOCHES
02 47 59 48 21 http://www.ville-loches.fr
  • Categories
    • Municipal library
    • Listed or registered (CNMHS)
  • Equipment
    • Picnic area
  • On-site activities
    • Activities
    • Adult workshop
    • Junior workshop
    • Temporary exhibitions
  • Visits
    • Guided Group Tour on request
  • Other information
    • No coach park
In the heart of the medieval city, welcome to the Chancery. Centred on the theme 'Town of Art and History', the ground floor of this building has 5 decorated rooms which tell the story of Loches.
Historical sites and monuments
Seigneurial Manor and Monastery of la Corroirie MONTRESOR
  • Pets admitted
  • Wifi
4 La Corroirie 37460 MONTRESOR
06 80 43 38 75 https://www.corroirie.com/corroirie-histoire-monastere-chartreux-touraine-loches/
  • Categories
    • Herbs / medicinal plants
    • Vegetable garden
    • Listed or registered (CNMHS)
  • Equipment
    • Picnic area
    • Bar / refreshment bar
    • Accommodation
    • Hall hire
    • Catering on site
    • Wifi
  • Autres services proposés
    • Temporary exhibitions
  • On-site activities
    • Activities
    • Adult workshop
    • Conferences
    • Temporary exhibitions
  • Parking
    • Bike parking
    • Coach park
  • Visits
    • Educational Visit on request
    • Individual Guided Tour on request
    • Guided Group Tour on request
  • Other information
    • No coach park
    • Rental room
    • Interior shop
Located on the road from Loches to Montrésor, the Château-Monastère de la Corroirie was a feudal stronghold, seigneury and Carthusian monastery until the Revolution. It features a mill, large cellar, church founded in 1206, prison, moat and fortified gate with drawbridge.
Museum - Interpreting centre
Wivisites - Loches LOCHES
  • Pets admitted
37600 LOCHES
02 47 59 48 21 https://www.ville-loches.fr/
  • Parking
    • Bike parking
    • Coach park
  • Audioguides
    • French
    • English
  • Other information
    • No coach park
Historical sites and monuments
Le Louroux Priory LE LOUROUX
Centre bourg 37240 LE LOUROUX
02 47 92 82 07
  • Categories
    • Listed or registered (CNMHS)
  • Equipment
    • Picnic area
    • Bar / refreshment bar
    • Parking
    • Catering on site
  • Visits
    • Individual Guided Tour on request
    • Guided Group Tour on request
  • Other information
    • No coach park
This fortified 13th century village, dependent on Marmoutier Abbey, housed monks who dug the lake (14th century) to provide themselves with fish during Lent. The artist Delacroix stayed here on several occasions.
Museum - Interpreting centre, Historical sites and monuments
L'Espace Muséal DESCARTES
  • PMR
21 rue Descartes 37160 DESCARTES
02 47 91 42 00 https://museedescartes.wixsite.com/museedescartes
  • Categories
    • Musées de France
    • Municipal library
    • Listed or registered (CNMHS)
  • Equipment
    • Picnic area
    • Shop
    • Parking
  • Autres services proposés
    • Activities
    • Adult workshop
    • Junior workshop
    • Conferences
    • Temporary exhibitions
  • On-site activities
    • Activities
    • Adult workshop
    • Junior workshop
    • Conferences
    • Temporary exhibitions
  • Parking
    • Bike parking
    • Coach park
  • Visits
    • Educational Visit on request
  • Audioguides
    • French
    • English
  • Other information
    • No coach park
    • Interior shop
Located in southern Touraine, on the border with Poitou, this unique museum is a great place to learn about the history and works of philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650), writer and academician René Boylesve (1867-1926), and electrical engineer Gustave Trouvé (1839-1902).
Historical sites and monuments
Saint-Laurent Church BEAULIEU-LES-LOCHES
  • PMR
Rue Foulques Nerra 37600 BEAULIEU-LES-LOCHES
02 47 91 94 94 http://www.beaulieulesloches.eu
  • Categories
    • Listed or registered (CNMHS)
  • Equipment
    • Picnic area
    • Bar / refreshment bar
    • Electric charging station for vehicles
    • Play area
    • Hall hire
    • Parking
  • Autres services proposés
    • Activities
    • Temporary exhibitions
  • On-site activities
    • Activities
    • Temporary exhibitions
  • Parking
    • Bike parking
    • Coach park
  • Other information
    • No coach park
    • Rental room
    • Playground
This church was constructed in the 13 & 16th centuries. Located to the north of the abbey, it combines charm and originality with its large, flamboyantly decorated windows and its square clock-tower. A fine example of Romanesque vaults in the Plantagenet style.
Museum - Interpreting centre
Minerve Museum YZEURES-SUR-CREUSE
  • PMR
Place F. Mitterrand 37290 YZEURES-SUR-CREUSE
02 47 94 26 54
  • Categories
    • Musées de France
    • National museum
  • On-site activities
    • Activities
    • Conferences
  • Parking
    • Coach park
  • Visits
    • Educational Visit on request
    • Individual Guided Tour on request
    • Guided Group Tour on request
  • Other information
    • No coach park
    • Interior shop
Discover vestiges of a votive pillar dedicated to Jupiter: sculpted blocks and attempted reconstruction. Also, discover vestiges of a temple and Merovingian sarcophagi.
Museum - Interpreting centre, Historical sites and monuments
Le Grand-Pressigny Prehistory Museum LE GRAND-PRESSIGNY
  • PMR
  • Pets admitted
  • Wifi
Le Château 37350 LE GRAND-PRESSIGNY
02 47 94 90 20 http://www.prehistoiregrandpressigny.fr
  • Categories
    • Musées de France
    • Listed or registered (CNMHS)
  • Equipment
    • Cuvette adapter
    • Picnic area
    • Electric charging station for bicycles
    • Shop
    • Bottle warmer
    • Luggage storage
    • Pram storage
    • Hall hire
    • Step stool
    • Parking
    • Booster seat
    • Film projection room
    • Toilets for young children
    • Wifi
  • Autres services proposés
    • Activities
    • Adult workshop
    • Junior workshop
    • Temporary exhibitions
  • On-site activities
    • Activities
    • Adult workshop
    • Junior workshop
    • Conferences
    • Temporary exhibitions
  • Parking
    • Bike parking
    • Coach park
  • Visits
    • Educational Visit on request
    • Individual Guided Tour on request
    • Guided Group Tour on request
  • Audioguides
    • French
    • English
    • German
    • Spanish
  • Other information
    • No coach park
    • Rental room
    • Interior shop
The museum unites a modern building with relics from the 12th to 17th-centurey. The collections, primarily based on flint from Grand-Pressigny and the Touraine's Prehistoric Age, are displayed in the Renaissance gallery and cellars.
Historical sites and monuments
Saint-Ours Collegiate Church LOCHES
  • PMR
Place Charles VII 37600 LOCHES
02 47 59 48 21 https://www.ville-loches.fr/collegiale-saint-ours-un-edifice-en-restauration-article-3-11-109.html
  • Categories
    • Listed or registered (CNMHS)
  • Visits
    • Educational Visit on request
    • Individual Guided Tour on request
    • Guided Group Tour on request
  • Other information
    • No coach park
An 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque collegiate church, notable for its polychrome portal dating from around 1150 and two octagonal domes known as “dubes.”