The theme of the Musée de la Compagnie des Indes, the only one of its kind in France, takes visitors back to the extraordinary history of the great trading companies of the 17th and 18th centuries.
Ship models, prints, old maps, Indo-European furniture, Chinese porcelain and Indian cotton fabrics all bear witness to this incredible maritime epic.
It was this quest for precious goods that led the Company's agents, after long and perilous sea voyages, to the shores of Africa, the Orient, Asia and America...