The Musée de l'Automate in Souillac is with its 300 pieces Europe's largest collection of mechanical toys and vending machines. These cute and often funny mechanisms, occassionally electrically driven, when combined often make up whole diaromas that used to brighten Parisian storefronts into the 1950's....
The National Museum of Prehistory is located in Les Eyzies de Tayac, in the valley of the Vézère. It is the most important museum on prehistory as well as a major research center. The museum is located among numerous previously inhabited caves unearthed along the...
This museum in Les Arques, dedicated to Ossip Zadkine, houses many monumental works of this Russian artist. Zadkine fell in love with this house in the Lot in 1934 and, besides living in Paris, spent much of his time there. Sculptures in stone and wood,...
Castelnaud-la-Chapelle is dominated by its medieval fortified castle, with a view over the Dordogne valley and at shooting distance of the castle of Beynac on the other side of the river. Both castles were often enemies during the hundred-year war. Today, Castelnaud-la-Chapelle's castle houses an...