La Rochelle - Museums

In La Rochelle, a little way west of the Place de Verdun, in Rue Gargoulleau, is the former Bishop's Palace (18th C.), now housing the Musée de Peinture (the municipal art gallery) and the Municipal Library. Notable among the pictures in the Museum are a landscape by Corot and an "Adoration of the Shepherds" by E. Le Sueur.

In Rue Albert 1, the northward continuation of Rue Chaudrier, is the Jardin des Plantes (Botanical Garden), with the Fleuriau Museum (natural history) and the Lafaille Museum (oceanography and ethnography).