"Eric Satie died famous but little known," state the creators of Les Maisons Satie in Honfleur, France, an eccentric "museum" devoted to the enigmatic composer of Three Gymnopedies, Parade and Vexations.

This is the house where he was born in 1866, in the town he left at the age of 12 - there's not much to see other than a bit of naval graffiti, carved generations before Eric's time.

So the organisers have turned the half-timbered location into a musical hall of mirrors, in which fragments of the composer's musical and literary imagination assail visitors wearing wireless headphones. As well as a hand-drawn representation of the Paris "cupboard" where he lived and worked, there's a chapel-like space that contrasts the sulphurous yellow Late Night Satie (the profane cabaret pianist) with the hypnotic purple Morning Satie (the sacred chapel-master).

Another room, containing 40 electronic panels on stalks, delivers a babble of responses to Satie's body of work: from Cage (who insisted that Satie was "indispensable") and Steve Lacy, through ballet, opera and the visual arts, to Debussy's orchestrations. There's a white piano giving ghostly player-piano recitals and the "Emotion Lab", a room of surreal contraptions. The paucity of Satie memorabila has forced the curators to reimagine Les Maisons Satie from scratch: winged pear, cardboard suits, shadows and light. As a break from the more predictable delights of a Normandy holiday, it is as charming and baffling as the man himself.

· Open daily, Feb-Dec, except Tue. 67 Boulevard Charles V, Honfleur, tel: 00 33 2 31 89 11 11. · www.ville-honfleur.fr