Cherbourg is one of France’s great Channel ports and a cornerstone of French naval history. Among the sites you may visit is the famed Cité de la Mer, a spacious Art Deco Gare Maritime building where ocean liner passengers embarked and disembarked – including those of the Titanic. Tour Muséum Emmanuel Liais, which is set in a picturesque public garden and offers wide-ranging displays of archaeology and ethnography, including Ancient Egyptian works. You may also visit Musée Thomas Henry featuring Henry’s prized collection who a native of Cherbourg and became a leading art expert at the Louvre.