Musée du Champignon
Inside a still-working cave mushroom farm, learn about Saumur's tradition as France's mushroom capital.
The limestone caves around Saumur are cool and humid, and they once produced most of France's Paris mushrooms. The Mushroom Museum is located in a cave farm in Saint-Hilaire-Saint-Florent, displaying traditional compost beds, bag cultivation, and hundreds of fungal specimens. Parts of the site are still in production, and you can buy fresh mushrooms at the export shop. Admission is about €10, and the visit takes about an hour. It is about 12°C inside the caves, so bring a jacket. Open March to November.
Opening hours
About 10:00–18:00 (mid-February to mid-November)
Nearby sights
- Pierre et Lumière
- Maison Ackerman Cellars
- Cadre Noir de Saumur
- Musée de la Cavalerie
- Distillerie Combier
- Dolmen de Bagneux
- Saumur Old Town & Place Saint-Pierre
- Notre-Dame de Nantilly