First ethnographic museum in the province, founded in 1896, and contemporary museum Arlaten (Arles), the ethnographic museum "Le Vieux-Honfleur" is installed in a half-timbered house of the 16th sicèle which housed the prison of the Viscounty of Roncheville.
The visit of the museum is an open route in nine rooms furnished according to their destination: the shop of the mercer, the room of the headdresses and the costumes, the room of the weaver, the room of the souvenir, the room of the bourgeois, the room of the girl, the printer’s room and the sailor’s room.
Norman furniture, costumes and headdresses of Normandy, various objects, earthenware of Pré d'Auge, have been gathered for more than a century by Léon Leclerc (1866-1930, the founder, and by members of the Société du Vieux-Honfleur.