The Aquitaine Museum

The Aquitaine Museum presents the history of Bordeaux and its region, from prehistoric times to the 21st century. It is today housed in what used to be the science and humanities faculty built at the end of the 19th century by the city’s architect Charles Durand. Remarkable collections of archaeology, history and regional and extra-European ethnography retrace the life of the people of Aquitaine and their relations which the rest of the world.

It also houses the Goupil Museum which has a collection of the original works, engraved or photographic reproductions form the Goupil firm, art publishers in Paris in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, open to researchers and students by appointment.