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CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain
Entrepôts Lainé was built in 1824 as a warehouse for the rare and exotic products of France's colonies. These days more than 900 works of post-1960s contemporary art have replaced the coffee, cocoa, peanuts and vanilla that used to fill the building's capacious spaces. There is free entry for permanent collections, temporary exhibits cost around €5 for adults.
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Musée d'Aquitaine
Gallo-Roman statues and relics dating back 25,000 years are among the highlights at the impressive Musée d'Aquitaine. Ask to borrow an English-language catalogue. Free entry for permanent collections; temporary exhibits cost around €5 for adults.
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Musée d'Histoire Naturelle
There's something delightfully old-fashioned about this natural history museum, which dates back to the period after the French Revolution when French society began to embrace the benefits of science. There is one section devoted to housing an exhibition of regional fauna and lots of bugs on pins and quality taxidermy.
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Musée des Arts Décoratifs
Installed in the magnificent Hôtel de Lalande, built in 1779, the Museum of Decorative Arts contains a fantastic collection of faïence, porcelain, silverwork, glasswork, furniture, weapons and the like, dating mainly from the 18th- and 19th-centuries. The location - an elegant private mansion - renders the visit all the more interesting and informative.
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Musée des Beaux-Arts
Occidental art buffs can trace its evolution from the Renaissance to the mid 20th-century at Bordeaux's exceptional Musée des Beaux-Arts. Occupying two wings of the 1770s-built Hôtel de Ville, either side of the elegant public park, Jardin de la Mairie, the 1801-established museum houses a superb collection of paintings, particularly 17th-century Flemish, Dutch and Italian works.
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