Museums
Albert Marzelles Museum
15, rue Abel Boyé47200 Marmande
Tél : 05 53 64 42 04
musee@mairie-marmande.fr
www.mairie-marmande.fr
Opening:
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...).
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 Lamarque
47400 Lagruère
Tél : 05 53 89 53 69
Unaccompanied or guided tours of the classroom and its furnishings followed by a thirty minute old style “lesson” which includes such delights as dictation, mental arithmetic, writing with a quill pen, geography, history etc. Films and slides shows may be shown on request. Visits may be organized for primary and secondary schools from April to June. Primary studies certificate examinations and writing competition Saturday 28 June 2008.
Opening from 15 june to 15 september on sunday or on booking all the yeay excepted in december, january, february and march.
Gourmet preserves museum
47200 Mauvezin sur Gupie
Tél : 05 53 94 20 48
Fax : 05 53 94 28 67
Ancestral food preserving techniques, drying, smoking, salting, preservation in fat, vinegar, sugar ... Revolutionary invention of Nicolas Appert : preserves. An hour commentated visitwith video and sampling, only by appointment. Reserved for groups. Boutique : foie gras, duck and goose specialities...
