Musée Pierre André Benoit
Rue de Brouzen, Pôle Culturel de Rochebelle
30100 Alès
Phone: 04 66 86 98 69
Fax: 04 66 34 20 51
Modern and contemporary art
The collections of the museum are housed in a neo-classic residence. They are arranged around great contemporary works as Alechinsky's paintings, drawings and engravings, Braque, Picasso, Miro, Picabia, Survage, Vieira de Silva, Bryen, Hugo, etc.

Musée du Colombier
Rue Jean Mayodon
30100 Alès
Phone: 04 66 86 30 40
Fax: 04 66 34 20 51
Beaux-Arts and archeology.
A collection of archeological pieces dated from the Paleolithic age and from the Bronze and the Iron ages. The museum also houses a 16th century painting collection and, in 2010, it should also receive the beautiful mosaic which was discovered on the colline de l'Ermitage during summer 2008 and which was dated from Julius Caesar.

Musée Minéralogique de l'Ecole des Mines d'Alès
6, avenue de Clavières
30319 Alès
Phone: 04 66 78 51 69
www.ema.fr
The world of Minerals,
illustrated by nearly 1 600 samples sorted into two groups: the main classes and types of minerals and the French minerals sorted by geographical regions.

Alès Show Mine
Chemin de la Cité Sainte-Marie
Rochebelle
30100 Alès
Phone: 04 66 30 45 12 - fax: 04 66 61 58 26
www.mine-temoin.fr
Alès Show Mine gives the opportunity to children as well as to adults to go down the coal mine for a travel in the world of the "gueules noires" (coal minors). All along the year, guided tours make you experience the 700 meters of galleries dug by the apprentice minors.
In summer, dramatized, nocturnal or thematic tours are added to the conventional guided tours.
Exhibitions, projections, conferences and pedagogic activities complete this gripping coal mining historical retrospective. Alès Show Mine is a unique site, located at 5 minutes' drive from the city center, on Alès heights. You can have a walk in the pine wood surrounding the mine and when the weather is fine you can even picnic.

Opening hours from March 1st to November 11th nonstop

-March 1st to June 30th and September 1st to November 11th: 9.30 am to 12.30 pm and 2pm to 6pm (last morning tour at 11am and last afternoon tour at 4.30pm)
- July 1st to August 31st: 10 am to 7 pm. Last tour at 5.30 pm. Rate: 6.70€; 6/12 year old: 4€; 12/18 year old: 5.10€; family rate: 16€.

Musée du Vieil Alais
31 chemin de la Plaine du Larnac
30560 Saint-Hilaire-de-Brehtmas
The Old Alais as it was before the 60's, with its place des Ribes and its shop fronts and windows faithfully reconstructed.
Group visits only. Reservations are necessary. Further information at Alès Tourist Center. Rate: 3€.

Musée du Scribe
42, rue du Clocher
30380 Saint-Christol-lez-Alès
Phone: 04 66 60 88 10
Writting Museum.
The real wealth of creativity produced by Man in the art of writting: nibs, quills, penholders, ink pots, techniques used in the fabrication of papyri, parchments, and paper.

Musée des Vallées cévenoles
95, Grand-Rue
30270 Saint-Jean-du-Gard
Phone: 04 66 85 20 48
Fax: 04 66 85 13 61
Open every day from April to October
on Tuesdays, Thursdays and on Saturdays from November to March.
www.musedescevennes.com
The Cevennes Culture Museum
presents the spirit of the Cevennes, its cultural background, the way man domesticated the landscapes and resources of the region.

Musée du Désert
Mas Soubeyran30140 Mialet
Phone: 04 66 85 02 72
Fax: 04 66 85 00 02
Opening hours:
from March 1st to November 30th:
-9.30 am to 12 pm and 2 pm to 6 pm
July and August:
- 9.30 am to 7 pm.
www.museedudesert.com
Museum of the Protestant Faith.
This museum will make you go over the Huguenot past of the Cevennes. The "Desert" Period, the Camisards War, repression, a daily life in hiding, etc.

Musée du jeu ancien
Mas Bruguier
30560 Saint-Hilaire-de-Brethmas
Phone: 04 66 86 45 12
www.ifrance.com/museedujeuancien
The museum will make you discover or rediscover games of old from 1900 to 1960.
A retrospective of the most famous games: jukebox, pinballs, table football, slot machines, pools, etc.