The Old Customs: free visit

Name: La Vieille Douane : visite libre
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: La vieille douane

From the salt trade in the 18th century to the decline of local contraband, drawings, archives and anecdotes offer you a unique approach to the Old Customs Museum.

17 et 18 septembre 2022Passé

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04 50 71 75 11

Lambert Meyer - Val Média

From the salt trade in the 18th century to the decline of local smuggling, drawings, archives and anecdotes offer you a unique approach to the history of the Chablais mountains at the Old Customs Museum.
From its construction in the 1920s to the first visits in 2012, the Old Customs has many surprises in store for its tenth anniversary with a brand new temporary exhibition!

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Exposition

Thème 2022

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

À propos du lieu

La vieille douane

1277, route de Vonnes, 74390 Châtel, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Haute-Savoie
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Done up in the old(former) office(desk) of customhouses of Châtel, this centre of interpretation(performance) is interested in smuggling(contraband) in the French-Swiss mountains of Chablais. He(It) highlights the adventures of an in the past inseparable binomial of border: the customs officer and the smuggler. Since the underground importation of salt of XVIIIESIÈCLE, up to the advent of tourism at the end of 1950s, the Old Customhouse proposes you an unpublished presentation(display) of the mountains of Chablais, where anecdote always joins big(great) history(story). Every year, a temporary exhibition(exposure) is interested, in addition to the permanent route(course), in an other shutter(component) of history(story) of the customhouse or of smuggling(contraband). In 2015, exhibition(exposure) "secrets of the still" invites in the den of an underground bouilleur to discover the history(story) of distillation and traditional manufacturing of brandies of mountain.