Museum des Jacobins Museum des Jacobins

Wonderful town museum with 8,000 Pre-Columbian artifacts.

We took a day trip on the local Toulouse train to visit the Auch Cathedral and this museum, 2nd in France to Quai Branly’s Pre-Columbian collection. Having just visited that Paris museum, we concentra...

Now called Musée Des Amériques

There’s a lot of stuff tastefully displayed in what seems like a small, multi-story building, but the displays are so good and so well thought-out that the museum doesn’t seem cluttered. There are gre...

A wonderful break from heat and summer crowds

The museum of Jacobins in Toulouse is a true jewel. If you want to take a break and recharge your batteries this is the place to be. My favorite things to enjoy were the room with Román Columns and th...

Very nice!

This wonderful museum has artifacts from the surrounding area and is well appointed. A bit hard to locate as the streets wind and climb up and down the narrow streets but a simple map from the tourist...

Fantastic collection of pre-Columbian art

Of all places, I was amazed to find such a large collection of pre-Columbian art in Auch, the 2nd largest in France. The museum is housed in a former covent, a succession of small rooms. Modest entr...