Maison Michaud’s tuyé farmhouse preserves the working life of Haut-Doubs farmers through a collection of two thousand objects. Guided visits explain how households adapted their architecture and everyday practices to long mountain winters. Stories of border markers, smuggling and the Resistance connect this domestic world with the Franco-Swiss frontier.
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Hospices Archives and First Wine Sale
Olga Ponchet of the Côte-d’Or Departmental Archives traces the beginnings of the Hospices de Beaune wine sale. Correspondence from Hôtel-Dieu bursar Joseph Pétasse and catalogues of vintages reveal how the auction took shape. Plans, registers, photographs and eyewitness accounts place the wine event within the hospital’s changing work in healthcare.
Plumes & Archives Calligraphy Workshop
Plumes & Archives brings palaeography and calligraphy together through the Hôtel-Dieu’s hospital records. Participants inspect parchments, lettering and administrative registers before reproducing a passage in an old-fashioned hand. Andréa Hautevelle, who oversees the Hospices Civils de Beaune archives, leads this practical encounter with the institution’s written history.
Fêtes de la Vigne Archives
Original documents from Dijon’s Municipal Archives trace the origins and changing character of Les Fêtes de la Vigne. The exhibition examines the festival’s roots in Burgundy’s wine-growing traditions alongside local folklore. Its international and multicultural connections emerge through the records, with guided visits offering another way into this chapter of Dijon’s public life.
Grande Saline Guided Visit
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.
Gallo-Roman Heritage Days
Saint-Romain-en-Gal marks the museum’s anniversary during the Journées européennes du patrimoine with meetings with its staff. The collections manager leads visits to the reserves, explaining how objects are conserved and studied. Storytelling walks among the archaeological remains draw on mythology and traditional tales; places require registration on arrival.
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.