Le Havre's Top Art and Architecture Destinations

Le Havre, a UNESCO World Heritage city in Normandy, offers a rich cultural landscape. The city's reconstruction after WWII by Auguste Perret features the Appartement-Témoin and Saint-Joseph Church with 12,768 stained glass windows by Marguerite Huré. Oscar Niemeyer's Le Volcan (1982) houses performance spaces and a library. Jean Nouvel's Bains des Docks (2008) is a municipal pool complex of 5,000 m². The MuMA (Musée d'Art Moderne André Malraux), designed by Guy Lagneau, Michel Weill, Jean Dimitrijevic, and Raymond Audigier, opened in 1961, showcasing Impressionist works by Eugène Boudin, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, and Edgar Degas. The contemporary art center Le Portique, established in 2007 in a former school, offers free exhibitions and family workshops, currently featuring Noémie Goudal. The outdoor art trail Un été au Havre, founded in 2017 by Jean Blaise, is curated by Gaël Charbau for the last time this summer, with David Moinard taking over from 2027 to 2030.