Fisheries Museum (Musée des Pêcheries)

Dr. Léon Dufour, whose childhood collection is housed in the museum, founded the revolutionary 'Goutte de Lait' (Drop of Milk) program in Fécamp in 1894, distributing sterilized milk to infants. This pioneering initiative dramatically reduced infant mortality and spread rapidly throughout France and worldwide, making Fécamp a historic birthplace of modern infant nutrition science.

The museum's Cabinet of Curiosities contains artifacts collected by Fécamp's sea captains and shipowners during their voyages, including Egyptian antiquities, Pre-Columbian objects, carved mother-of-pearl, Chinese ceramics, and Venetian glassware. These treasures arrived through the Mediterranean cod trade routes, revealing how the town's fishing elite became unexpected collectors of world art.

The building was designed in 1950 by Parisian architect André Hamayon, who was the principal architect of Fécamp's post-war reconstruction. His innovative reinforced concrete design with modular spaces was built to express confidence in the fishing industry's future - yet just 45 years later, industrial fishing ceased here, transforming this symbol of optimism into a memorial of a vanished way of life.