Musée d'Ethnographie et d'Art Populaire Normand

Norman folk-life museum in a 16th-century house and former prison

Address Rue de la Prison

Across the courtyard from the Musée de la Marine, the ethnography museum reconstructs daily Norman life of past centuries through a dozen period rooms — a weaver's workshop, a farm kitchen, a 19th-century pharmacy, a Norman bedroom complete with the high-sided armoires the region is famous for. The building is partly a Renaissance house and partly the former municipal prison; the prison cells form the final part of the route.

Small but unexpectedly absorbing. Buy a combined ticket if you also plan to visit the Marine.

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