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Getting to the museum

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The museum is located on Place Julia, right in the centre of Pont-Aven.

We encourage our visitors to use sustainable transport to travel to the museum!

Length of visit: 2 hours on average

Cycling

Bus

Coralie bus network in CCA

Number 2 bus: Concarneau ⬄ Pont-Aven (via Trégunc) – “Pont-Aven centre” bus stop

Regular routes in the CCA area:

  • 6 regular routes (1 to 6) through Concarneau, Trégunc, Rosporden and Pont-Aven.
  • Route 2 runs from Concarneau to Pont-Aven via Trégunc.
  • Route 4 runs from Concarneau to Rosporden railway station.
  • Summer routes in the CCA area.

 

 

See routes and timetables

🚲 Bikes are allowed on bus routes 1, 2 and 3 at certain times. The times at which bikes are allowed are indicated by a pictogram on the timetables. On bus route 4 and the Coralie Plage summer service, bike racks are installed at the rear of the coach during the summer and can carry up to 8 bikes. Advance booking recommended.

🎟 Tickets can be purchased at Coralie ticket offices, on board buses and online via the Mybus app

  • Quai d’Aiguillon – 29900 Concarneau – France • Tel. +33 (0)2 98 60 55 55 • www.coralie-cca.fr
  • Z.A de Dioulan – 29140 Rosporden – France • Tel. +33 (0)2 98 59 21 68 • www.coralie-cca.fr

Packs of tickets can be purchased at the tourist information offices in Trégunc, Névez, Pont-Aven and Rosporden.

Coach

BreizhGo – Quimper bus station
Regular coach services to Quimper, La Forêt-Fouesnant and Bénodet, so you can visit or hike without taking your car. Quimper bus station.

Tel. +33 (0)2 98 90 88 89 • www.breizhgo.bzh

Tickets can be purchased at the tourist information offices in Concarneau, Trégunc and Pont-Aven

 

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Ride sharing

  • Sustainable travel – Throughout the Concarneau Cornouaille Agglomération area
  • Find a ride through Coralie Covoiturage

 

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Parking in Pont-Aven

Free parking with no time limit:

Parking Bel Air, Parking de Pontic Malo, Parking de la Belle Angèle, stade Henri Sinquin.

  • Free time-limited parking in the town centre: 30 minutes to 2 hours, depending on the location.
  • A parking disc must be displayed.
  • Paid parking from 15 June to 15 September along Pont-Aven harbour: €0.50 per 30 minutes.

 

Parking map

Train

Closest railway stations: Quimperlé (12 km) and Rosporden (14 km)

Road

Take the RN 65, Pont-Aven exit (6 km). Traffic is dense in the town centre in summer, from around 15 June to 15 September.

Things to see and do in the local area

To discover Pont-Aven and the surrounding area, take a look at our ideas of places to visit!

  • Pont-Aven is a town nestled alongside the river Aven which flows into the Atlantic Ocean at the popular seaside town of Port-Manec’h. After visiting the museum, why not follow in the painters’ footsteps by visiting the Bois d’Amour, Trémalo chapel, the harbour… To guide you on your journey, click here.

  • While you are here, we recommend visiting the Musée de la Pêche in Concarneau! This specialised fishing museum harbours many treasures such as the Hémérica, a fishing vessel built in 1957. This vessel, now permanently in dock, is accessible to museum visitors and is deemed to be one of the museum’s top attractions. It is the last in a series of 8 trawlers built at Ateliers et Forges de l’Ouest in Saint-Nazaire. To find out more, see the Musée de la Pêche website.

  • Find all the information you need on the tourist office website.

  • Brittany’s museums offer a rich cultural programme. To find out more,

    visit the website for Brittany’s museums: https://bretagnemusees.bzh/

  • Nestled on the banks of the river Aven, Pont-Aven never fails to charm its visitors with its picturesque streets, its rich artistic culture and its delicious butter biscuits, the famous “galettes de Pont-Aven”!

    From its humble beginnings as a small riverside trading town where goods transited from river to sea, Pont-Aven rose to become the Cité des Peintres in the 19th century, the favoured holiday destination of a colony of painters. These artists revealed this little corner of Breton soil to the world at large and earned the town its artistic reputation for many years to come. Pont-Aven continues to keep this tradition alive and today is home to around sixty art galleries and artists’ studios.

    To find out more: see the tourist office website and the website for the town of Pont-Aven

    See the website for the tourist information centre “De Concarneau à Pont-Aven”