Musée de L'Histoire Maritime

Has interesting exhibitions on the early seafaring days in New Caledonia. There is also an ever-increasing collection of objects salvaged from the wrecks of La Boussole and L'Astrolabe, two ships commanded by French navigator Jean-François de la Pérouse on his ill-fated voyage in 1788. The ships sank in a cyclone off Vanikoro in the Solomon Islands.

For several years now, Association Salomon, a local association, has organised several expeditions to Vanikoro to try and solve the mystery of the shipwreck. The museum is on the way to Nouville, near the Gare Maritime des Îles where the Betico docks.