National Museum of Navy

The National Museum of Navy is housed in the Hotel de Cheusses, one of Rochefort's oldest buildings. The Museum has received the most valuable individuals of the Naval Dockyard, from its foundation by Louis XIV until its closure in 1927. As part of the permanent journey, models, tools, paintings, sculptures, machines, weapons or navigational instruments provide the keys to understand this dockyard.

The museum presents some reproductions of documents from the archives of the Defence Historical Service in Rochefort :
Reforming shipbuilding at the turning 20th century : Admiral Théophile Aube and the thinking of the Jeune École > Models, sketches, photographies and plates extracted from books bear witness to the transformations of the Dockyard and to
the shipbuilding from the 1880s onwards. These reproductions of documents address the thinking of the Jeune École, inspired by Admiral Aube, who favoured the use of small units, such as torpedo boats, to oppose battleships.

During the filming of a documentary on the history of the sinking of the Medusa in 1816, a replica of the life-size raft was created and is displayed in the courtyard of the National Museum of Navy.

Audioguides available in French, English, German, Spanish und Dutch.

Culture vouchers are accepted.

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