Port of Le Havre & MuMa André Malraux Museum, Normandy, France

About this place

Live Stream | Le Havre Harbor Entrance & MuMa Modern Art Museum, Normandy, France. Situated at the mouth of the Seine River where it empties into the English Channel, the Port of Le Havre is France's leading container port and the historic birthplace of Impressionism where Claude Monet painted "Impression, Sunrise". Facing the harbor entrance, the glass-and-steel MuMa museum displays one of the nation's premier collections of Impressionist art. Seafood landmarks like Le Grignot serve lavish Plateau de fruits de mer, Marmite dieppoise fish stew, and local Normandy cider.

✦ Must-Visit Highlights:

▸ Cradle of Impressionism: Stand on the shores where Claude Monet created the painting that gave the Impressionist movement its name.

▸ Modernist MuMa Art Museum: Admire the sunlit maritime gallery housing masterpieces by Monet, Eugène Boudin, and Raoul Dufy.

▸ Bountiful Normandy Seafood: Feast on fresh cracked spider crab, bulots whelks, pink shrimp, and cream-simmered fish casseroles.