Guided tour of exhibition(exposure) "do you believe in It? Sorcery and healing"

Name: Guided tour of exhibition(exposure) "do you believe in It? Sorcery and healing"
Start: 2018-09-15T15:00:00+02:00
End: 2018-09-16T16:30:00+02:00
Location: Musée d'archéologie et du patrimoine Marius Vazeilles

A panorama on sorcery, magic, faiths and curative uses(practices) in the country and in Limousin since the Prehistory.

15 and 16 September 2018Passed

Conditions

Free

As part of the promotion(valuation) of the territory, the Museum proposes every year a temporary exhibition(exposure) and diverse activities to discover this territory and its wealth: taken(brought) out, exhibitions(exposures), conferences, tales, workshops(studios)....
This year, the temporary exhibition(exposure) which is called 'do you believe in It? Sorcery and healing' tackles(approaches) the subjects of sorcery, of magic and of healing under different angles across time(weather). She(It) combines more than 300 archaeological rooms(parts,plays) and ethnological objects: documents and stories relate to facts and faiths in our companies(societies), of movies, reconstructions of stages(scenes) and of the panels(signs) of mediation on its origin. These timeless practices are characteristic of a human company(society) where the Man always needed consolation and mystery.

About the location

Musée d'archéologie et du patrimoine Marius Vazeilles

Abbaye Saint-André, 19250 Meymac

Corrèze
Nouvelle-Aquitaine

Located in the old(former) abbey Benedictine of the XIth century at the heart of the historic centre of Meymac, the museum, place of discovery e of knowledge, establishes(constitutes) an exciting introduction in the history(story) of the Tray(Plateau) of Millevaches and his(her) inhabitants, times(weathers) most moved(put) back in our days. He presents of the funeral furniture (medieval sarcophagi and Gallo-Roman funeral safes(chests)), tools of the Palaeolithic and of the Neolithic, objects of the Gallo-Roman site of Coaches, videos there 3D of monuments as well as stories of the local country life of the environment(middle) of the XIXth century at the end of the XXth century. Panels(Signs), videos, electronic communication and information terminals supplement this rich and various collection established(constituted) by Marius Vazeilles (1881-1973), forester, archaeologist and political activist.