MuseumHistoric Site
Old Tréport Museum, Le Treport
Le Treport›France
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45min
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About Old Tréport Museum
The Musée du Vieux Tréport is a charming local history museum housed in Le Tréport's former town hall and prison, featuring a historic vaulted portal dating from 1563. Spread across five floors, the museum showcases three main themes: maritime activities including shipwrecks, model ships, and painted sailors' bags; sea rescue history along the Picard Coast; and the development of seaside tourism in the 19th-20th centuries with original beach tents and bathing costumes. A unique highlight is the authentic equipment from the world's last horse-powered pebble collectors, documenting an industry that extracted millions of cubic meters of pebbles before being banned in 1975 to protect Normandy's coastline.
Old Tréport Museum — Planning Your Visit
Opening Hours
MondayClosed
TuesdayClosed
WednesdayClosed
ThursdayClosed
FridayClosed
Saturday10:00 - 12:00, 15:00 - 18:00
Sunday10:00 - 12:00, 15:00 - 18:00
The pebble collection industry documented in this museum operated for over two centuries along the Normandy coast, extracting approximately 3 million cubic meters of pebbles between Antifer and Le Tréport. Remarkably, this amount roughly equals the entire remaining pebble stock on the shore today, showing just how dramatically humans transformed this coastline before the practice was banned in 1975.
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