Loire Maritime Museum

The Loire Maritime Museum (French: Musée de la Marine de Loire) is a municipal maritime museum in Châteauneuf-sur-Loire. It is housed on the right bank of the river Loire in the former stables of château de Châteauneuf-sur-Loire and covers ships and boats on the Loire. It is a Museum of France under the definition in law 2002-5 of 4 January 2002.

Châteauneuf-sur-Loire was one of the main ports on the Loire at the end of the 18th century and is on the perimeter of the région naturelle of Val de Loire on the World Heritage Register. It has a thirty-person auditorium, bookshop and gift shop.

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