Free or guided visit of the Bugey-Valromey museum and brick construction workshop

Name: Free or guided visit of the Bugey-Valromey museum and brick construction workshop
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée du Bugey-Valromey

On the occasion of the 40th European Heritage Days, the museum is free. Take advantage of this annual event to discover the temporary exhibition on the artist Charles Machet, the collection…

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

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On the occasion of the 40th European Heritage Days, the museum is free. Take advantage of this annual meeting to discover the temporary exhibition on the artist Charles Machet, the collections of the museum and/ or to enjoy the entertainment we offer.
Saturday and Sunday, at 11am and 4.30pm: guided tour of the Renaissance House of the Bugey-Valromey Museum. A costumed guide presents all the subtleties and ingenuity of this building.
Sunday, hourly: playful construction workshop with plastic bricks. From 5 years old, limited number of places.
Continuous self-guided visit

About the location

Musée du Bugey-Valromey

3 rue centrale 01260 Lochieu

Ain
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

At the foot of the Big(Great) Dovecote, in Lochieu, small bugiste typical village, the departmental museum of Bugey-Valromey nests. The heart of the museum is a house Renaissance containing numerous witnesses(batons) of the history(story) of the place: two-light frame, monumental fireplace, staircase in screw, pigeon house, cupboards and pavings, vault of the XVIth century. Theatre of reconstructions and case of collections, she receives also the most important public collection of sour(turned) wooden contemporary works of France. 30 international artists are represented. Visible of garden of the museum, exceptional panorama on the Bugey allows to include the attraction of numerous artists for this territory. In discounts(deliveries), old(former) jobs(businesses) by the wood (woodcutter, docker, coalman, cartwright, cooper...) previous means of transport are presented as well as: tanks, sleds, horse-drawn carriages, snowplow(snowplows).