Workshop - The stonemason

Name: Workshop - The stonemason
Start: 2024-09-21T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-22T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Musée national de la Renaissance

Get the traditional tools of stone cutters and carve a block of stone. The stonemasons present on the site will introduce you to their craft. What to give birth to ...

21 and 22 SeptemberPassed

Get the traditional tools of stone cutters and carve a block of stone. The stonemasons present on the site will introduce you to their profession. Enough to give rise to vocations!
In partnership with the company Degaine
Saturday and Sunday from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm Free and without reservation From 5 years

About the location

Musée national de la Renaissance

Château d'Écouen 95440 Écouen

Val-d'Oise
Île-de-France

The castle, built from 1538 to 1555 by the constable Anne de Montmorency, retains part of its original decoration evoking the atmosphere of a great patron of the time: pavements of enamelled tiles executed by Masséot Abaquesne, locks, decorated panels, and painted fireplaces. Several architects took turns for its construction, including Jean Bullant who realized the portico of the south wing to present in niches "the slaves" of Michelangelo offered by the king of France Henri II to the Connétable. During the Revolution, the castle was saved from destruction by Abbé Grégoire. Its 17-hectare park of high forests is enclosed by a wall and is crossed by large alleys leading to a plain designed by Hardouin-Mansart at the end of the 17th century.
Picture: Aerial view of Ecouen Castle National Renaissance Museum