Museums of France in the region
The Occitania region has 132 museums in France.
The name "Musée de France" may be granted to museums belonging to the State, to another legal person under public law or to a person under private law not for profit. She covers both the collections and the institutions that highlight them: the permanent collections of museums in France are inalienable and must be registered on a regulatory inventory. It makes museums that benefit from it eligible for state, scientific, technical and financial support.
Museums are institutions whose mission is to preserve, restore, study and enrich their collections, to make them accessible to the widest public, to design and implement education and dissemination actions aimed at ensuring equal access for all to culture, contributing to the progress of knowledge and research and their dissemination.