Cultural and heritage tours

To discover Les Franciscaines, its past and its collections, is to discover a part of Deauville's history. A 150-year leap back in time plunges you into what was once an orphanage, a military hospital and a convent. Then explore Alain Moatti's architectural project to understand how an atypical cultural center works...

The Paleospace presents a rich collection of fossils from the cliffs of the Vaches Noires located at the edge of the beach of Villers-sur-Mer. These fossils testify to a bygone era when huge marine reptiles hunted crocodiles and ammonites in a warm sea. With one of the mediators of the museum, the visitor discovers this Jurassic world...

An unprecedented monographic exhibition devoted to the work of Zao Wou-Ki, a Chinese-born and French-adopted artist whose artistic path borrowed from the tradition of his native country as well as from Western modernity. Zao Wou-Ki opened up a new, liberated and free path, which Les allées d'un autre monde explores through the diversity of his...

Visitors are plunged into the world of dinosaurs, these large terrestrial reptiles whose fossils have been found in the rocks of Normandy. Learn to recognize them, discover their characteristics, their way of life, why they disappeared, do they have descendants ... so many questions that will be answered during this visit ...

The exhibition takes a close look at the sporting gesture, whether it's foundational or sufficiently distinctive to symbolize the discipline. Athletes are called upon to discipline their bodies to make them ever more efficient. As an expression of the athlete's genius, the sporting gesture has always been a source of inspiration for artists, who, through their works of art, have...

What is the purpose of this imaginary line running through Villers-sur-Mer, and how does it relate to time and celestial movements? A visit in two parts: in the planetarium, to understand celestial movements, in particular those of the sun, then in the meridian room, to observe and handle ancient time-measuring instruments (astrola...