Art and History: Galleries and Museums

Taking a cruise accompanied by art and history represents the crowning form of this mode of travel. The Atlantic Alliance harbors represent the ideal starting point for a visit to world-famous art galleries and museums.

The weather’s too good to visit a museum? Wrong. Europe’s museum world is not just limited to glass cabinets in darkened rooms. In the summer months in particular the museum scene blossoms: open-air museums; botanical gardens; museum festivals; castles and fortresses are just a few of the many attractions alluring visitors from all over the world all year round.

In Europe there is hardly any subject that doesn’t have a museum devoted to it: cultural history; technology; design; science and great masters of art. The region is famous for its painters, to name but a few: Rembrandt; Van Gogh; Monet and Picasso. Send your guests on a wonderful voyage of discovery around European
history! Like a ship anchored at sea, the outline of the Malraux Museum in Le Havre is smooth and transparent; a blend of glass and steel on a concrete base. With its major collections from impressionist painters, its permanent collection of Eugène Boudin (about 200 works), and the recent Senn-Foulds donation, the Malraux museum houses the largest collection of impressionist paintings in France after Paris.

Hundreds of galleries, from small to world-famous, also offer something for the eye: traditional art, contemporary art, to look at, to touch, and to buy. Europe’s most up-to-the-minute art trends at a glance!