Coming to the Museum

Museum d’Histoire Naturelle de La Rochelle
28, rue Albert 1er

17000 La Rochelle

Tel. (+33)5 46 41 18 25 – Fax: (+33)5 46 50 63 65

museum.info@ville-larochelle.fr

Download the museum access map

Travelling to the museum by road:
from Niort

Enter La Rochelle, Bd Sautel, dir. centre ville

from Rochefort

Direction Gare SNCF then centre ville

from Laleu airport or Ile de Ré

Ring road, exit St Eloi, Bd Sautel, dir. centre ville

Car parks nearby:
Free car park Esplanade des Parcs, free parking rue Chasseloup Laubat, parking to be paid for Place de Verdun (monitored underground car park – open from 6am to 1am for users),

Notre Dame parking (ticket machine), place Jean Baptiste Marcet (ticket machine)
Download the brochure featuring sites for camper vans
Disabled parking in front of the museum entrance on rue Albert 1er
    
Travelling to the museum by Bus
Urban transport (RTCR)

From the train station and old port

Lines 1, 10, 17, 19 – Stop on place de Verdun

Coach stop possible in front of the museum entrance

Rochelais Pass

This 1, 2, 3 or 7-day concept offers unlimited transport at a low price (bus, sea bus, passeur or bike) and a visit to at least one partner site at a preferential rate (Aquarium, the Musées d’Art et d’Histoire, Musée des automates et des modèles réduits, Musée Maritime, the Tours de La Rochelle, guided tour of the City Hall).

On sale at the Tourist Office
Download the document on the 1-day Rochelais Pass
Download the document on the 2, 3 or 7-day Rochelais Pass
Walking to the museum
from the old Port

Rue du Palais, rue Chaudrier, rue Albert 1er

Cycling to the museum
350 yellow bikes for hire (first two hours free);

1,400 racks in the La Rochelle hypercentre (2,800 spaces for bikes)

(download the station map))
“Yellow bike” user guide
Bike racks in front of the museum:
ttp://www.agglo-larochelle.fr/services/depl_velo.php

Coming to the Museum’s Jardin des Plantes
Entrance located on rue Albert 1er
Jardin des plantes

Coming to the Scientific library
Ground floor of the Bâtiment Fleuriau

Bibliothèque

Coming to the Administration of the Museum

Bâtiment Fleuriau

Entrance through the gate at the jardin des plantes

Download the access map to the museum’s sites