Description

Open every day except Tuesday, from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm and from 2 pm to 5 pm from November to March. Until 6 pm from April to October. Closed on January 1st, May 1st, and December 25th. Ticket valid for two years from the date of purchase. Free for those under 26, the unemployed, those receiving social welfare benefits (RSA, ASS, minimum old-age pension), art history students, people with disabilities, and war veterans. Free for everyone on the first Sunday of each month. Group rate for 20 to 100 people: for larger groups, please contact us. Napoleonic Museum: In the house occupied by the Emperor in July 1815, furniture, portraits, and memorabilia… African Museum: Artistic, ethnological, and zoological collections relating to Central and Southern Africa. Off the coast of La Rochelle and Rochefort, twenty kilometers from the Île de Ré and five from the Île d'Oléron, the Île d'Aix was for a long time a strategic military location. But despite its long history of warfare, it owes its fame to Napoleon. The Emperor stayed there, after the defeat at Waterloo, from July 9 to 13, 1815, the date of his surrender to the British. The house where he resided, donated to the national museums in 1933, houses Napoleonic memorabilia. The island also houses an African museum.