Opal Coast
Museums and culture on the Opal Coast
Enough for a rainy day, and a few sunny ones too
10 things to do
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10 things to do
Boulogne-sur-Mer
Nausicaá
The largest aquarium in Europe, and the only place on the coast where rain changes nothing
Half a day · Paid entry, booking online recommended
Audinghen
The Atlantic Wall Museum
A giant blockhouse and its railway gun, facing England
One to two hours · Paid entry
Calais
The Cité de la Dentelle et de la Mode
Ten-tonne looms, running, in the very factory where they’ve always stood
Two hours · Charged
Boulogne-sur-Mer
The Château-Musée
A 13th-century castle, and inside it, masks from Alaska
Two hours · Charged
Dunkerque
The Musée Portuaire
A tobacco warehouse, a tall ship, a barge and a lightship
Half a day · Charged; separate tickets for the museum and the ships
Calais
The Musée des Beaux-Arts of Calais
The museum that tells how Rodin arrived at The Burghers of Calais
One to two hours · Charged
Dunkerque
The Dunkirk 1940 Museum
The evacuation of 340,000 men, told from the very place it was commanded
An hour and a half · Charged, with reduced rate and free entry in some cases
Gravelines
The Musée de l’Estampe
The only French museum devoted to printed art, in a 1742 powder magazine
An hour and a half · Charged
Boulogne-sur-Mer
The Maison de la Beurière
An 1870 fisherman’s house, the only one left standing in its street
One hour · Modest entry fee; check with the tourist office
Boulogne-sur-Mer
The Casa San Martín
A piece of Argentina in Boulogne, and a national hero who died here in 1850
Three quarters of an hour · Modest entry fee; check with the tourist office
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