Enjoy the museum
Albert Marzelles Museum
15, rue Abel Boyé47200 Marmande
Tél : 05 53 64 42 04
musee@mairie-marmande.fr
www.mairie-marmande.fr
Openning:
From wednesday to Friday – 3 pm to 6 pm
On Saturdays from 10 am to 12 am and 3 pm to 6 pm
No admission charge.
Exhibition "Abel Boye, an artist marmandais" 1864 - 1933 : until 30 September 2012.
Country Memory Museum
Nautical stop point47400 Villeton
Tél : 05 53 79 05 59 / 06 12 60 73 29
Come and discover this collection of machines and tools relating agriculture and its mechanization story. Over a century after, you will be astonished by the cleverness of yester-year’s mechanization. This museum of rural heritage retraces the history of more than a century of rural life. Exhibition of tools and machines in perfect working order. Demonstrations by arrangement (threshing of wheat and production of flour, making of clogs and ropes). “Educational Garden” with various varieties of vegetables. The visit will make you live the steps of agriculture: from soils preparation to harvesting and threshing, through sowings and treatments. In the first room machines in perfect working conditions and tools used to cultivate the land are exhibited (plough, harrow, grading device, taring device, flour mill, hoe...). Demonstration, by appointment, traditional flour making steps: from wheat ear to flour. In the second room, there is a clog-maker who will show you the making of yesterday’s shoehorns: clogs (ravanette, hammer, eye auger, parer, spoons...). Demonstration of a traditional forge.
Opening from 1 june to 30 septembre from 2 pm to 7 pm except on Saturdays. Opening from March to November: everyday by appointment for groups (minimum 15 people)
Rates:
children (4 up to 12 years’ old): 2 €
adults: 4 €
groups of more than 15 people: 3 € (by appointment)
André Larroderie’s Archeological Museum
Route des Landes - Place René Sanson47180 Sainte Bazeille
Tél : Information : +33 06 85 23 60 52
From showcases to showcases, our visitors travel over more than 2000 years of the Marmandais history: prehistory, antiquity, Middle Ages. A video film presents Sainte Bazeille mosaic discovery.
Groups, children and adults visits and activities animations, by appointment.
Ecole Musée de Lagruère (Lamarque)
47400 Lagruère
Tél : +33 (0)5 53 89 53 69 (heures repas) +33 (0)6 47 99 65 43
jean-marie-richon@wanadoo.fr
http://www.lagruere.info
Discover charming family atmosphere of a classroom of the 1950s.
Maps, and posters of colorful history, old books of moral lessons, French and daily calculation, although calligraphy student notebooks, writing models with full and loose, the stove Godin educational tools for learning the metric system ... everything is there to feel the warmth of a former school in rural and smelling the ink and chalk ...
Open House Sunday (July, August, September) from 15h to 18h and by appointment on other days of the week from May to October.
Free : Fun Exercises Options (dictation, mental arithmetic, writing in pen, problems ...) visit or tour.
Groups welcome, secondary classes : Maximum 25 people, one hour class with the master of the school once from May to late October. Price: 3 € per person.
Possibility of descent of the Garonne in the canoe dock at the bar until Tonneins Lamarque, discovering the fauna and flora. Vigils with the star of stars exhibitor, conference and exhibition on the excavation of the Canal Garonne.
