Dupuy Mestreau Museum

Built in 1738 for the Marquis Antoine Guinot de Monconseil, the hotel was the seat of the prefecture of Charente-Basse from 1790 to 1810 and became a museum in 1920. This remarkable specimen of eighteenth-century civil architecture contains rich collections of regional art, assembled at the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by Abel Mestreau (1855-1939). Signs, earthenware, engravings, paintings, jewellery, costumes and headdresses, weapons, reconstruction of a peasant interior... Exhibited according to the museographic biases of the early twentieth century, the works bring to life the past life in Saintonge.

from February 1st to April 30th and from October 1st to January 5th from Tuesday to Friday and the 1st Sunday of each month from 1:30pm to 5:15pm Saturday from 10am to 12:30pm and from 1:30pm to 5:15pm from 2 May to 30 June from Tuesday to Saturday from 10 am to 12.30 pm and from 1.30 pm to 5.30 pm Sunday from 1.30 pm to 5.30 pm from September 1st to September 30th from Tuesday to Saturday from 10am to 12:30pm and from 1:30pm to 5:30pm the 1st Sunday of September from 1:30pm to 5:15pm from July 1st to August 31st from Tuesday to Friday from 10am to 6pm Saturday and Sunday from 10am to 12:30pm and from 1:30pm to 6pm Closed to the public from 8 to 31 January, 1 January, 1 May, 1 November and 25 December.