Bordeaux is one of the wine capitals of the world, and your tour of Bordeaux museums would be incomplete without the Wine Museum. Here visitors can learn about (and taste) everything that's involved in the wine-producing culture of the region.

The Museum of Contemporary Arts is located in an old harbor warehouse. It presents a collection of about 700 pieces of the most important art works since 1960. Occasionally, there are temporary exhibitions held here, and admission is free for these.

The Natural History Museum of Bordeaux is one of the oldest museums in France. It is the house of a great variety of different species of fauna from all over the world. Local wildlife and paleontology were given much attention and exhibition space. You will see an impressive collection of fossils here. There is also a very nice library for different zoological researches and a nice souvenirs shop.

The National Customs Museum has lots of interesting facts about the evolution of French customs administration. Housing more then 5000 items, including furniture, engravings, paintings and uniforms, the museum depicts the working procedure of the customs service from the ancient times to the present day.

Dating back to the 1770's, the house was initially built for a member of the French Parliament and his family. Later the building was purchased by the town of Bordeaux and in the 1950's it was made a museum. Today the museum stocks collections of sculptures, paintings, furniture, glassware, silverware and ceramics of decorative arts of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Jean Moulin is a World War II documentation center and museum founded in 1967. Here visitors will find collections of artifacts from different periods of the war: the Deportation, the Resistance and the Liberation of the French forces, which include documents, posters, correspondence and guns. While visiting the museum you may listen to commentaries of a history professor providing interesting information about the museum's exhibits.

As the museum opened in 1783, it started exhibiting gemstones. Only 100 years later it was named Musee d'Aquitaine and converted into what it is known today – a museum of local history, archeology and ethnography. Visitors will learn about life in this region from prehistoric to contemporary times.