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Musée de Normandie
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Musée de Normandie

Musée de Normandie is a museum in Caen. Close by, Château de Caen is 100 m away, one of 157 within 15 km. Readers can find it on Wikipedia in 5 languages.

Photo: Musée de Normandie, Karldupart (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where
In Caen
inside the commune
How well known
Top 5%
#1,591 of 37,318 French places we list
Warmest months
May–Sep
highs of 17–23°C
In brief

Museum in Caen

One of the best-known places to visit in France

#1,591 of the 37,318 museums, châteaux, gardens and other attractions we list in France, by how widely it is covered (5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles). About ↓

In Caen

Musée de Normandie is in the commune of Caen, with 60 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓

Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata and Météo-France 1991–2020 normals.

When to go

Month by month in Caen

Warm weather in Caen runs May to September, with highs of 17–23°C.

Jan8° / 3°63 mm
Feb9° / 3°53 mm
Mar12° / 4°50 mm
Apr14° / 6°53 mm
May17° / 9°59 mm
Jun21° / 11°58 mm
Jul23° / 13°51 mm
Aug23° / 13°60 mm
Sep20° / 11°54 mm
Oct16° / 9°79 mm
Nov12° / 6°79 mm
Dec9° / 3°81 mm
Green months are the warmest. Typical afternoon highs and night lows in Caen, and rain in a month. Météo-France 1991–2020 normals from the Caen-Carpiquet station, 6.3 km away. Opening times change through the year: check before you go. Caen’s full climate →
About

Musée de Normandie

Museum in Caen, France.

Musée de Normandie is in Caen, Calvados.

Musée de Normandie on Wikipedia ↗

Type
Museum
Covered in
5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
Commune
Caen, Calvados
Facts: Wikidata (CC0), OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors) and the Mérimée database (Licence Ouverte 2.0).
The map

Its place on the map

Orange shows Musée de Normandie; numbers mark the places near it.

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© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is the commune of Caen. · commune boundary: IGN

Towns near it

The towns around Musée de Normandie

By population, Caen leads the 8 with 109,400. Pick a base: each town is a page of its own, with what else there is to see.

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  1. 1Caen
  2. 2Hérouville-Saint-Clair
  3. 3Mondeville
  4. 4Cormelles-le-Royal
  5. 5Fleury-sur-Orne
  6. 6Louvigny
  7. 7Bretteville-sur-Odon
  8. 8Ifs
1 · It’s in this commune

Caen

109,400 people

2 · 2.9 km northeast of it

Hérouville-Saint-Clair

23,470 people

3 · 3.6 km east of it

Mondeville

10,331 people

4 · 3.8 km southeast of it

Cormelles-le-Royal

5,377 people

Compare the 8 towns
TownWhere Musée de Normandie isPeople
CaenIt’s in this commune109,400
Hérouville-Saint-Clair2.9 km northeast of it23,470
Mondeville3.6 km east of it10,331
Cormelles-le-Royal3.8 km southeast of it5,377
Fleury-sur-Orne4 km south of it5,941
Louvigny4 km southwest of it2,612
Bretteville-sur-Odon4.3 km southwest of it4,494
Ifs4.4 km south of it11,937
Make a day of it

More near Musée de Normandie

Nearby, 157 places within 15 km include 3 museums, a château and a monastery.

Within 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.

Musée de Normandie: common questions

Where is Musée de Normandie?

Musée de Normandie is in Caen, in Calvados (Normandy).

What is Musée de Normandie?

Museum in Caen, France.

How well known is Musée de Normandie?

Musée de Normandie has 5 Wikipedia and sister-site articles in different languages: #1,591 of the 37,318 French places we list.

When is the best time to visit Musée de Normandie?

May to September are the warmest months in Caen, with afternoon highs of 17–23°C (Météo-France 1991–2020 normals).

What else is there to see near Musée de Normandie?

Within 15 km: Château de Caen (100 m), Abbaye Royale aux Hommes (800 m), Abbaye aux Dames de Caen (800 m) and Mémorial de Caen (2 km).

Sources: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), Wikidata (CC0: what it is, its articles, how widely it is covered), the Culture ministry’s Mérimée database (Licence Ouverte 2.0), IGN commune boundaries, Météo-France 1991–2020 normals (Licence Ouverte 2.0).

Photos from Wikimedia Commons, each under its own licence (our copy, resized).

Photo credits (4)

Contains public sector information under the Licence Ouverte / Open Licence 2.0 (Etalab): INSEE, DGFiP, the Interior Ministry’s statistics service (SSMSI), the Ministry of Education (DEPP), the Health Ministry’s statistics service (DREES) and the Housing Ministry (Carte des loyers). Commune boundaries: IGN Admin Express.