To save, explore, and transmit. The L’Arche Museum carries out all its duties. And if to collect all the documents, acts of registration of marriages, divorces, births, and deaths, court decisions, estate purchases, you understand that the museum has already exceeded all the functions.

The museum building is not like other urban buildings. From afar, by the way, it even looks like a pile of books and documents. This is a rectangular building with a curved roof. Owing to this roof, the museum resembles a Chinese pagoda.

Inside, you can find a variety of exhibits. The museum is dedicated to the archipelago and everything that has happened to it since its inception, so there are a lot of interesting artifacts here. Moreover, the collection is constantly enlarging. Locals offer things inherited from grandparents, and archaeologists find traces of human development. 

There are so many collections. You can reveal the secrets of local nature or find out what sailors were doing in Saint-Pierre. Also, there are separate areas dedicated to coins of the archipelago, stamps, or postcards. It is also worth to see paintings by local artists.

This museum is also an archive. It is keeping all the documents that every person needs. Huge volumes and pages, yellowed from age, are neatly placed in the basement. The storage was built in 1776.

Even if to search for it, you cannot find absolutely all documents of the archipelago in the museum archive. In 1992, a fire broke out in the museum’s building. Only a part of it was saved. The burnt books were put in freezers to stop the decay process. Later, the museum was restored, documents were dried and put in special packagings.

In the museum, you can not only learn the history of the island, but also drink tea with delicious pies during the festival, or craft something.