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Rue Victor Hugo



This small but interesting museum founded in 1932 by American vulcanologist Franck Perret, gives a glimpse of the devastating 1902 eruption of Mont Pelée. On display are items plucked from the rubble, including petrified rice, a box of nails melted into a sculpture-like mass, glass cups fused together by heat and the cathedral tower's cast-iron bell squashed like a saucer, as well as historic photos before and immediately after the eruption.

There's free parking adjacent to the museum, which occupies the site of an old hillside gun battery. From the old stone walls along the parking lot you can get a good perspective of the harbor and city, and you can look down upon a line of ruins on the street below.



Hours: 9:00am-5:00pm