Musée de la Compagnie des Indes — Attraction in Lorient

This is a world class museum. Extremely well laid out but take an audio guide which is brilliant. To wander around the fort and the ramparts could take a couple of hours the museums (there are three and a temporary exhibition space) themselves three or more depending on your interest. If the weather is good, the views from the Ramparts across the bay are stunning. you are allowed to reenter so you can pop out for lunch or a swim or both(there is a very good beach good swimming at high tide and a couple of restaurants right next to the car park pass through a small gap in the fortification walls) and then return which is a good idea because there is an awful lot to see and take in. no food facilities but plenty of picnic tables....

A must when on holiday in Brittany. Yes, everything is in French with nothing or very little in English but you can opt out for a hand held audio device. Also, people under the age of 25 years go free so a really good value for money. With your entry fees you get 2 free audio devices. Any extras are charged an extra €2 but worth the money. Very well organised. We went when it was very wet so had to queue for a while in the wind and rain. I guess, everybody had the same idea on the day. The entrance fee includes The Maritime Museum too. We highly...

The museum is supposed to be open till 6 pm, we arrived at 5.15 last Saturday (we were in the Lorient area only for the weekend and this museum looked appealing to us). The employees inside had already started packing up their things and refused to let us in, even though we were willing to pay for a very brief tour. The guard literally closed the door to our face. I find this totally disgraceful and believes that this attitude totally contributes to the way the population might consider public services badly. I wanted to put 0 star but it wasn't...