The Loire Maritime Museum () 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.
History It originated in 1960, when exhibitions on ships and boats on the Loire began, as did reconstructions of boats used on the Loire. Description du musée sur le site des musées de la région Centre. Two years later those exhibitions became permanent and the museum was transformed stage by stage. Histoire du musée sur le site des musées de la région Centre. The museum formed a friends' association in 1963.
Initially controlled by the direction des musées de France, its running was transferred to the town council in 1984. L'association des amis du musée de la marine de Loire sur le site des sociétés savantes de France. Since 1985 it has had an archive, consisting of postcards, slides and works. Les services du musée sur le site des musées de la région Centre. Since October 1998 it has been rehoused in the former stables, after being officially opened by Bernadette Chirac. Those buildings had been made a monument historique in 1927. Le musée de la marine de Loire sur le site du conseil général du Loiret.
Collections The ground floor displays construction techniques for boats on the Loire and how they navigated the Loire. On the mezzanine is a display on the trade routes that included the Loire. On the first floor has displays on sailors' lives. 75 wash drawings by Jean-Jacques Delusse also illustrate the history of boats on the Loire. There are also spaces on the history of Châteauneuf-sur-Loire itself and three local artists, namely the writer Maurice Genevoix and the painters Odilon Redon and Camille Roche. Les collections du musée sur le site des musées de la région Centre.
Visitor numbers It had 13038 visitors in 2012, making it the fifth most visited museum in the department that year.
+Museum Attendance Data : bilans touristiques : 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, ; visitor numbers for sites and monuments in Loiret with more than 10,000 visitors : 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2016, 2017 2008200920102011201220162017Musée de la marine de Loire Loiret
References
External links (in French) Le musée de la Marine de Loire sur Chemins de mémoire. « Musée de la Marine de Loire » on the Culture Ministry's base Joconde