Introductory water-colour workshop for children

Name: Introductory water-colour workshop for children
Start: 2022-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-17T15:30:00+02:00
Location: Musée Barrois / Château des ducs de Bar et de Lorraine

Register your children in a workshop that combines heritage and environment around a technique: watercolour! The museum is located in the heart of the...

Saturday 17 September 2022, 14:00Passed

Conditions

Free. Booking required.

Registration

musee@meusegrandsud.fr 03 29 76 14 67

©Musée barrois, Bar-le-Duc

Using pigments and gum Arabic, make your own watercolours before using them to take in the landscape around you.
From the museum’s esplanade, the view of Bar-le-Duc and its rich architecture will be a source of inspiration for these watercolours made with natural materials and recovery.

About the location

Musée Barrois / Château des ducs de Bar et de Lorraine

Esplanade du château, 55000 Bar-le-Duc

Meuse
Grand Est

Castle of XVTH - XVITH centuries, sheltering encyclopaedic collections. From the Xth century, the duke of High-of Lorraine Frederick 1st makes build a fortified castle on the mount Bar which dominates Ornain. The site corresponds to the current High City of Bar-le-Duc. In the XIIIth century, the spur is surrounded with a double surrounding wall(speaker). The castle will become then residence of the dukes, prettifying and growing rich in its furniture. It is in the XVIth century, in 1567, that the duke Charles III makes build a new castle in the courtyard: Nine - Mansion. Only surviving building(ship) of the dismantling of fortifications on order of the king Louis XIV in 1670, it is in this castle that will be installed(settled) the collections of the Museum Barrois in 1970, following the Hotel of Florainville which, since 1841, kept(preserved) and exposed(explained) the collections of natural history, painting(paint), sculpture and the archaeological rooms(parts,plays).