Museums

Currency Museum

Address:

42, avenue de Grande Bretagne

Phone:

33 (0)4 68 62 37 64

Fax:

33 (0)4 68 34 76 55

Description:

Permanent exhibition about “Catalan Currency”, and medals ; temporary exhibitions, third exhibition about prestigious currencies (Greek, Roman, feudal, royal).

Further information:

Open from Tuesday to Friday (from 9:30 am to 18:00 pm) BY APPOINTMENT ONLY.

Address:

Espace Primavera 6, avenue du Languedoc

Phone:

33 (0)4 68 22 97 11 - 33 (0)4 68 34 50 60 - 33 (0)4 68 61 42 94

Website:

http://oraseeetlespoupeesbella.fr

Description:

500 dolls, but also posters, photos of artists and television celebrities are exhibited in this Museum. There is also a hair implant machine, moulds, speaking devices, different tools for the creation of coloured hair, doll clothes, boxes created by Mr Cherigny.
The Museum staff will receive you with pleasure, only by appointment.
Free entrance.
Mr Sala, the former director of the Bella factory, Mr Ross and Mr Lopez, the former supervisors, will guide you in your visit.

Further information:

OPEN BY APPOINTMENT (timetables are fixed to some periods of the year)

Address:

Mas Palegry

Phone:

33 (0)4 68 54 08 79

Mobile phone:

33 (0)6 18 92 64 14

Website:

http://www.musee-aviation.com

Description:

This museum is dedicated to all the pilotes that never came back to their base and also to those who participated to the creation of the airplanes.

Further information:

OPEN ONLY BY APPOINTMENT.
FREE ENTRANCE FOR CHILDREN UNDER 7 YEARS OLD.

Address:

Le Castillet Place de Verdun

Phone:

33 (0)4 68 35 42 05

Pets accepted:

Description:

This building was first the city gate, then a prison. Its main part was built during the end of the XIV century; during the French occupation Louis XI added the present Notre Dame gate.
It houses the Museum of the history of the North Catalonia.
You can accede to the summit to see the inner city from on high. You need to climb 142 steps.

Further information:

Open from 10:30 am to 6:00 pm all year long.
Closed on Mondays. Free for less than 25 years old.
Free entrance on the first Sunday of every month.
Days off: Black Monday, May 1st, July 14th, December 25th.

Individuals-guided tours on demand:

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Groups-guided tours on demand:

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Address:

12, rue Fontaine Neuve

Phone:

33 (0)4 68 66 33 68

Fax:

33 (0)4 68 66 37 66

Website:

http://www.mediterranees.net/museum/index.html

Description:

This museum shows 350m² of permanent exhibition with rare or disappeared animals of the Eastern Pyrenees, many bird species, great mammals, oceanian and african ethnological objects. You can also find an egyptian mummy from the XXIII dynasty in its sarcophagus, offered by Ibrahim Pacha in 1847 after a thermal treatment in Vernet-les-Bains.

Further information:

Open from 10:30 am to 5:30 pm from Monday to Saturday, last admission at 5:30pm.
Days off: January 1st, May 1st, July 14th, November 11th, December 25th.
Free entrance.