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Albert Marzelles Museum
15, rue Abel Boyé47200 Marmande
Tél : 05 53 64 42 04
musee@mairie-marmande.fr
www.mairie-marmande.fr
Temporary exhibitions, talks, workshops for adults and children. "Marmande in pictures 1945 to 2009" exhibition by Guy and Pierre Lavergne until the end of September 2010.
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.
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 : 06 73 89 50 44
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
47400 Lagruère
Tél : 05 53 89 53 69
jean-marie-richon@wanadoo.fr
http://foyerrurallagruere.centerblog.net
Come on a family outing and visit this delightful 1950s classroom in the Musée Ecole de Lamarque.
Colourful geography maps, history, science and reading tables, old books on French and morals, pupils’ books displaying perfect handwriting, blackboards with moral precepts written out in chalk, writing guides with the upstrokes and downstrokes, a wood-burning heater and a multitude of educational aids: everything is there to give you the feel of a rural school in times past.
Unaccompanied or guided tours, a choice of various “lessons” (dictée, mental arithmetic or writing with a quill pen).
With one ticket: visit the Musée de la Mémoire Paysanne, Musée Ecole de Lamarque and the Four à Pain (bread oven) in Roumat.
You can take a boat down the Garonne from the Quai de la Barre to Larmarque.
Opening to the public : every Sunday from 16 may to 31 october (from 4 to 6 pm) and on booking the other days of the week.
Free entrance.
