Museum of the Camargue

Musée de la Camargue

The Camargue Museum displays the photographic collections of Carle Naudot and Gaston Bouzanquet.

Their photographs, blending memory and records, lead us through France and around the Mediterranean, between 1900 and 1950.

The pictures brought back by Gaston Bouzanquet, when travelling on the Mediterranean between 1920 and 1930, show the image of a cruise passenger who left from Marseille in search of differences, together with his view of these foreign ways of life.

Most of the photographs in the Camargue Museum collections show daily life and special occasions in the Camargue (shooting, grape harvest, bullfights, festivities, economic activities, urbanism/architecture) together with those of the Arles area (Alpilles) or in Nîmes, where these two amateur photographers lived.

Through two short videos, the Camargue Museum allows the public, via internet, to explore different themes in the Museum’s collections.

These first videos allow you to discover what the lens/eyes of Carle Naudot and Gaston Bouzanquet retained of two cultural areas: the Arles area and the Land of the Camargue Bulls.

A third video shows a set of photographs concentrating on the Corrida. These images, taken in France and Spain, between 1905 and 1925, are evidence of Gaston Bouzanquet’s passion for Spanish bullfights.

The Museum of the Camargue is located 10 km from Arles on the road of Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, 300 meters from the Mas du Pont de Rousty, the administrative center of the Camargue Regional Nature Park.

Closed in January and on Tuesdays