The Museum of African and Asian Arts is a small, specialist collection in Vichy's thermal district, housed in a Belle Époque building originally connected with the spa world. Its holdings lean toward ethnography, sacred art, decorative objects, photography, and material gathered through missionary and colonial networks.
It is not the city's headline sight, but it adds a different register to Vichy, which can otherwise feel dominated by Second Empire architecture and spa nostalgia. The scale is human and the collection is varied enough to reward a quiet hour, especially on a rainy day or between walks through the parks and old bath establishments.