A place for history
Abbaye de Vaucelles
Musée Matisse Le Cateau Cambresis
Office de tourisme Cambrai
Musée de la dentelle Caudry
Centre historique minier de Lewarde
Tank Deborah
Historial de la Grande Guerre Péronne
Le Louvre Lens
Musée Somme 1916 Albert
The Abbey of Vaucelles
At the beginning of August 1132, Saint Bernard, first abbot of Clairvaux, and a dozen companions founded a new abbey on the banks of the Escaut, on lands offered by Hugues d'Oisy, castellan of Cambrai.
Vallis cella – the monastery of the valley – is the 11th daughter of Clairvaux, the 58th of Citeaux, the monastic order in full expansion in this 12th century.
The Matisse Museum in Cateau-Cambrésis is a museum created by the painter himself in 1952. It is the only museum created by Matisse during his lifetime. After 18 months of closure to carry out extension work, the Henri Matisse Museum will reopen its doors on November 23, 2024 in Cateau-Cambrésis. We look forward to seeing many of you!
It is a renovated and expanded museum of almost 1000m² which will welcome you soon. The scenography has been completely revised to promote an educational approach to the entire work of the master of color and to ensure a more immersive visiting experience.
The Fauvist artist's collection is enhanced and deployed to its maximum extent thanks to a new 300 m² museum floor and three rooms devoted to his different techniques: engraving, sculpture, paper cut-outs.
A renovated reception area, a reception area dedicated to groups and four new workshop spaces complete the new face of the museum after the work.
https://museematisse.fr/agenda
All the tourist offers
https://www.tourisme-cambresis.fr/
This unusual museum, which is both a society museum and a fashion museum open to contemporary creation, invites you to discover the lace-making heritage and textile arts of the Caudrésis.
The museum presents a technical collection illustrating the production line of wide-width Leavers lace – a Caudry specialty – as well as a textile collection mainly composed of samples and dresses in lace and embroidery from Caudry and its surroundings. The particularity of the local lace industry, which consists of re-embroidering lace mechanically or by hand, is also represented.
Donations from individuals, lace companies or even creators through partnerships regularly enrich the museum's collections.
https://musee-dentelle.caudry.fr/
Relive three centuries of coal mining in the Nord and Pas-de-Calais, an exciting human and industrial adventure!
https://www.chm-lewarde.com/fr/
A reference museum dedicated to the First World War, the Historial addresses the conflict in all its magnitudeand its dimensions: military, social, cultural.
The Louvre-Lens is the work of architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa of the SANAA agency. Organized in an open space of 3000 m², the Galerie du Temps exhibits more than 200 key works from the Louvre Museum. By presenting masterpieces from the 4th millennium BC to the middle of the 19th century, the Galerie du Temps offers a complete and renewed journey through the history of art and humanity and allows visitors to appreciate the Louvre's collections in a new way. The Louvre-Lens is thus the first place to present the Louvre's collections outside the confines of the Parisian Palais: since 2012, more than 3000 works from the Louvre's collections have been presented in Lens.
Located in the heart of the battlefields and in the center of Albert, a city that symbolized the First World War, this museum, whose entrance is located at the foot of the basilica, retraces the lives of soldiers in the trenches during the offensive of July 1, 1916. Some fifteen alcoves and display cases are installed in a 250-meter underground passage used as an air-raid shelter during the Second World War. Sound effects, images and lights immerse visitors in the daily lives of these soldiers.
https://www.musee-somme-1916.eu/
Cast off at Riqueval and set off to discover the history of the last Towing Site on the waterway! You want to know the history of the Saint-Quentin Canal and its engineering structures, how the towing boat works... the Towing Museum, this real meeting place and testimonies of boatmen and "people of the waterway" is made for you. So, discover with family or friends this original museum, housed in an old electric towing boat from 1910, named Ampère 1.
https://www.destination-saintquentin.fr/musee-du-touage-de-riqueval/