Free tours of the Museum

Name: Free tours of the Museum
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée du Cuir et de la Tannerie

A remarkable site and collection to explore and discover through the 8 permanent exhibition rooms, in a high place of industrial heritage listed as a Historic Monument.

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

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Ville de Château-Renault

A remarkable site and collection to survey and discover over the 8 permanent exhibition rooms, in a high industrial heritage site listed as a Historic Monument.

Types d'événement

Visite libre

Thèmes 2023

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

About the location

Musée du Cuir et de la Tannerie

105 Rue de la République 37110 Château-Renault

Indre-et-Loire
Centre-Val de Loire

This tannery founded in 1597 by master tanners Peltereau was one of the largest factories of the «Leather City» after its boom taken in the early nineteenth century with the production of leather with soles. Auguste Peltereau and his wife Marie-Célestine Peltereau will develop the activity of this plant renowned for the quality of its leathers tanned with oak bark according to traditional methods (tanning without extracts, with long stay in pits). Its activity ceased in 1978, becoming in 1985 the Museum of Leather and Tannery. In a monumental and preserved setting, visitors have access to eight rooms presenting the production chain of a leather, in the heart of the structures of the old factory (tanks, basins, pelains, workshops, dryers), in the exceptional atmosphere of a site inscribed since 2004 to the additional inventory of historical monuments.