 The , a unique contemporary art centre in France, dedicated to photography, was inaugurated in the Bassin zone in November 2008.The Jacques Prévert Municipal Library, founded in 1831 and opened in 1832, holds the second largest collection in the region, after that of Caen.The purchase of the library of the local scholar Henri-François Duchevreuil, in 1830, complements the 1,855 volumes of the district's library, created at 24 "Rue Tour-Carrée", in application of the decree of the Convention of 8 pluviôse year II and composed essentially of works seized from emigrants and deportees.