• To visit Historial Raphaël Saint-Orens

  • To organize educational discoveries in Historial

  • To reach the collection of documents

  • To participate in the enrichment of the patrimonial fund


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To join the present with intelligence, the Memory serves as link between Past and the Future


Curious about the life of your ancestors and about the History of Pessac
visit Historial Raphaël Saint-Orens, ' Cuvier of the memory Pessacaise '

The Historial Raphaël Saint Orens Museum is here to transmit you the Pessac’s ancient history from it beginning up to the XIX century.

Thanks to photos, excavations, daily objects, o labour ones, you will be able to know better the evolution of the city, its customs.
Also you will understand the development of Pessac, its area and the Bordeaux history.

We will present you some major figures powerful in the region, in Aquitaine or in France.


The vine around presses


The church Saint-Martin in the chapel




In old Cuvier, life to Pessac of the origins in our days



Pessac, Municipality(Commune) of the Metropolis from Bordeaux to New Aquitaine (France) welcomes in particular ' Château Haut-Brion ' and the ' City(Estate) Frugès - Corbusier ' classified in the UNESCO world heritage.

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