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Sábado 1 junio, 10:00Passed
Juny 2024
Dissabte 1
10:00 - 12:30

Parc et jardin de la Maison Rouge, musée des vallées cévenoles

5 rue de l'industrie 30270 Saint-Jean-du-Gard
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  • Occitanie

Visit: The botanical garden with the ethnologist Alain Renaux

Know everything about the garden and its plantations? Do you know how to make plants sing? which to taste? which to sniff? Come ask your questions.
Sábado 1 junio, 10:00Passed
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Know everything about the garden and its plantations? Do you know how to make plants sing? which to taste? which to sniff? Come and ask your questions. Alain Renaux is unbeatable and will make everyone want to have a green thumb!

Types of events
Guided tour
2024 Theme
The five senses in the garden
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Conditions for participation
Free entrance
Type of audience
General public

About the location

Parc et jardin de la Maison Rouge, musée des vallées cévenoles
5 rue de l'industrie 30270 Saint-Jean-du-Gard
  • Gard
  • Occitanie
The museum’s exterior fittings are an integral part of the Scientific and Cultural Project of Maison Rouge – Musée des vallées cévenoles. Created by the ethnobotanist Alain Renaux on an area of , the public garden and a wooded part of the park are complementary to the collections of the museum and representative of the plants formerly used daily in the Cévennes. In the park, about twenty trees, some of which were used in carpentry and cabinetmaking: black poplar, beech, ash, birch, cherry or hawthorn... Others (wicker, ash, chestnut) were used to make tool handles, small tools for harvesting chestnuts and domestic objects in basketry. Many plants were part of the ordinary of the Cévenols and were known for their playful, medicinal and veterinary, food or tinctorial uses. Some toxic plants were also chosen for educational purposes.
Tags
Architecture contemporaine remarquable, Musée de France, Tourisme et handicap, Contemporary garden, Botanical garden or arboretum i Public garden
Acceso
parking lot
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