Musée National de la Marine — Attraction in Toulon

Well-organized, easy to follow explanation of birth, development, and modern day relevance of Toulon port. Wish there was more English.

Museum has a great story to tell and wealth of artifacts & models to tell it. Top-level narrative is wonderfully simple to follow on big, sequentially numbered placards with French, English, and German.

Unfortunately diving down beneath that top-level narrative one finds no translations. I’d have loved to learn more about many specific artifacts which are captioned only in French. A good audio guide is available, but it does not fill the gaps of this French-only content.

Hopefully museum will fully translate these wonderful exhibits such that international visitors can fully embrace Toulon’s maritime history.

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The National Museum of the Marine Toulon is a great and educational way to spend an afternoon out of the heat. The exhibition was very informative and there were lots of different items on display, so it never got boring. I learned a lot about naval engineering at Toulon! An audio guide of your language of choice was included in the admission free, and the explanations were thorough. The only reason I do not give the museum five stars is that the item descriptions are only in French, and at least English as an additional language would be nice as well. The audio guide only covers selected exhibits and there were many items with French labels which I could not quite understand. I would have loved to to...

This was a pleasant "surprise" discovery on my stay in Toulon. Though to be fair, with Feance's largest Naval base, it is not really surprising that there is a maritime museum located adjacent to the base.

The highlights for me were the oil paintings and the scale models of ships. The detail is stunning on both.

You pay 8 Euros entrance fee (except cruise ship passengers who appear to have voucher access). It's a self-guided tour at your pace. You can rent an audio guide. Then you follow the signs and go past the maritime story of Toulon and France with explanations posted mumericqlly on the walls in French,...