​​​​The museum partially reopens ​as of Wednesday March,15th.
​Only the first floor (paleontology, prehistory, Middle Ages is not yet accessible.

FIRST FLOOR

PALAEONTOLOGY
PREHISTORY
UPPER MIDDLE-AGES

All collections
come from
 Maule and its surroundings.

GROUND FLOOR

POPULAR TRADITIONS

The collections are
the testimony of rural life
in the nineteenth and 
early twentieth centuries in our region.

TITHE CELLAR

XIII th century

In this room, the monks stored tithing, a fee in kind on agricultural products for worship and assistance to the poor.

Another staircase leads to a cellar today collapsed.

See the slide show

object of the month

​Bonnet irons
​(Inv n° 2011.0.469, 2012.0.132, 2011.0.43)

​These different irons made it possible to iron the caps worn in the past in the region. Several are on display at the museum.

Made of cast iron and placed on a stove, they accumulated heat. Small in size, 9 cm long, the handle was made for an adult hand.

Their particular shape was adapted to the different parts of the cap. Others, provided with a handle, made it possible to give the shape to the crown of the bonnet.