Beneath Salins-les-Bains, a working wheel, wooden rocker arm and pump reveal how brine was drawn from the Grande Saline’s wells. The guided route continues into the evaporation room, where harvesting tools and France’s last surviving salt pan explain the salt workers’ craft. The Salt Museum and a saltwater evaporation workshop extend the visit beyond the underground gallery.
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Galerie Métairie Visit in Scaër: Breton Costumes and Collections
The Galerie Métairie visit in Scaër brings together several collections under one roof: minerals from around the world, Breton costumes, cameras from the 19th and 20th centuries, paintings and photographs from the 1960s. The range gives the visit a cabinet-of-curiosities character, moving between local dress heritage, visual culture and natural specimens. It is especially relevant for visitors interested in how private or local collections can preserve material traces of daily life, image-making and regional identity.
Michel Thersiquel Photography Exhibition in Douarnenez
À terre en mer, les îles de Michel Thersiquel presents 65 black-and-white photographs by the Breton photographer at the Port-musée in Douarnenez. The retrospective focuses on daily life in the Ponant islands, including Batz, Belle-Île, Sein, Groix and Ouessant. Work, domestic scenes and island environments appear with a direct eye, giving maritime communities a documentary presence beyond postcard imagery.
Trois Expositions at Musée Yan’ Dargent: Art & History
Trois expositions au Musée Yan’ Dargent places the painter back among the Léon landscapes, neighbors and spiritual references that shaped his work. Loans from regional museums sit beside large canvases by Alain Le Nost and Roger Moizan’s black-and-white photographs from Brittany and Ireland. Saint-Servais becomes the hinge between nineteenth-century Breton painting, parish enclosure imagery and a contemporary gaze on sacred places.
Le vol du coeur d’Anne de Bretagne in Landévennec: Family En
Le vol du coeur d’Anne de Bretagne invites families into a playful search through the Breizh Odyssee museographic space. The story of Duchess Anne’s heart reliquary gives the activity a strong historical anchor, while the investigation format helps younger visitors handle heritage as a puzzle. The investigation makes Breton ducal memory active and accessible, grounding the game in a named historical figure and object.
Exposition “Dans nos filets” in Saint-Brieuc: Maritime Art
Dans nos filets at the Saint-Brieuc Museum examines the artistic image of fishermen and maritime labour. Works selected with the Orsay Museum show how painters, sculptors, writers and ethnologists interpreted men of the sea across different periods. The exhibition places those representations within collections shaped by Breton culture, coastal work and the museum’s own maritime history.
Salins Fire of 1825: A Historical Exhibition
Grande Saline revisits the fire that transformed Salins-les-Bains through archives, engravings, melted objects and firefighting equipment. The exhibition follows the blaze, relief effort and rebuilding rules that changed the town’s streets and houses. A hand pump from the Jura firefighters’ museum and reproductions of works by Ingres and Cicéri illustrate the response to the disaster and efforts to fund reconstruction.
Hôtel-Dieu in Beaune: Hospital History Walk
This guided walk follows the founders and benefactors of the Hospices Civils de Beaune through the city’s history of care. The route links the medieval Hôtel-Dieu with the former orphanage at the Hospice de la Charité, passing the ramparts and bastion. A visit to the hospice’s small museum completes an itinerary tracing the relationship between hospitals, charity and the people who supported them.
Bread and Pastry Baking in Chapelle-des-Bois: Tradition
Écomusée Maison Michaud demonstrates bread and pastry baking in the wood-fired oven of a traditional Haut-Doubs farmhouse. The gathering takes place in the fire room beneath the tuyé, with discussion of how sourdough bread is prepared and baked. Brioches and homemade cakes can be ordered, and admission also includes a self-guided visit to the ecomuseum.
Résonance Exhibition in Saint-Claude: Artistic Connections
Résonance places works from the Frac Franche-Comté alongside the collections of the Musée de l’Abbaye in Saint-Claude. Paintings, sculptures, photographs and drawings connect artists including Picasso and Braque with Djamel Tatah, Silvia Bächli and Xavier Veilhan. A dedicated display explores Josette Coras’s engravings, drawings and paintings inspired by the landscapes and heritage of the Jura.