Sounds and drawings offer different ways of following the Cher at Nitray. An audio walk introduces the river, while an exhibition pairs sketchbook artist Lapin’s work with creations from workshops involving La Croix-en-Touraine schools. Board games and a Micro-Folie digital museum visit add activities for children aged eight and over, connecting river heritage with artistic and participatory approaches.
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Chaumussay in Black and White: A Village Album
Chaumussay appears through old photographs and postcards in Le temps suspendu, an exhibition devoted to the commune’s past. Black-and-white views bring together images that once circulated as cards and others preserved as photographs. The collection forms a village album, inviting attention to the places recorded and to the ways earlier photographers chose to frame them.
Gallo-Roman Magic: The Mystery of Well 512
Three finds from well 512 at Châteaumeillant pose an archaeological puzzle: a horse-shaped firedog, a broken Gallic statue and a human skull. The exhibition on Gallo-Roman magic asks why these objects ended up together underground. Their unusual association invites an investigation into actions and beliefs in the ancient settlement, without treating the mystery as already solved.
Early Christian Chartres: Finds from Saint-Martin-au-Val
Recent research at Saint-Martin-au-Val opens a window onto the transformation of ancient Autricum into early Christian Chartres. Sarcophagi, objects and surviving remains are set beside archival material in the exhibition. Together they trace political, religious and funerary changes, bringing excavated discoveries into contact with written accounts of this less familiar period.
Lansyer’s Japanese Fans: A Making Workshop in Loches
Japanese fans are both useful objects and works of art in the collection assembled by Lansyer. This Loches workshop introduces that part of his collecting interests before inviting participants to make and decorate a fan themselves. The finished object goes home with its maker, linking a local artist’s preserved collection with a practical encounter with Japanese decorative culture.
Bourges: Military History Through Children’s Workshops
Military history becomes a subject for observation and making in this Bourges museum programme for children aged six to twelve. Each session begins with a discovery activity before moving into a practical workshop. Handling and creating help connect the historical theme with something tangible, and participants leave with their own work at the end of the free session.
Maintenon Through Artists’ Eyes and Archive Images
Artists’ views of Maintenon meet photographs from its past in an exhibition produced with the Fondation Mansart. Paintings, drawings and engravings interpret the château, town and surrounding landscapes. Older and archival photographs add a documentary counterpoint, allowing changes in the place to be read alongside the ways artists have chosen to picture it.
Chartres: The Museum’s Palaeontology Collections
Chartres’s natural history museum continues to tell its story through the scientific collections it preserved before closing to the public. This Jeudis de l’archéologie talk turns to its palaeontological holdings. Renewed cataloguing and inventory work reveal more about the specimens’ geographic origins and diversity, linking present research with the institution’s collecting history.