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New World Museum is a rewarding stop for art, history and curious minds. Locate it on the map, book a room nearby in a click, or add it to your travel list to build your itinerary.
About New World Museum
In an elegant 18th-century mansion in La Rochelle, the Musée du Nouveau Monde explores the long and complex relationship between this great Atlantic port and the Americas. Once a thriving base for trade with the New World, La Rochelle grew rich on commerce across the ocean, and the museum traces this history through paintings, maps, engravings, furniture and objects evoking the exploration, settlement and trade — including the slave trade — that linked the city to the Caribbean, North America and beyond. The refined rooms of the former shipowner's residence provide an atmospheric setting for this thoughtful exploration of a pivotal and sometimes painful chapter of history. Elegant, informative and unflinching, the Musée du Nouveau Monde offers a fascinating perspective on La Rochelle's Atlantic past and its ties to the Americas, an essential complement to a visit to this beautiful maritime city.