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Museum
Maison du Costume – Abriès
2008/9 exhibition:
‘Les dessous et les envers’
Costumes of yesteryear: an encounter with a history and a culture.
A journey through time in the vaulted rooms of the Abriès presbytery.
In the summer you can continue your tour by exploring the experiment garden, where plants are grown for use as fabrics and in the dying process.
Courses in ‘bobbin lacework’ using a Queyras ‘tambour’ or ‘tabaret’.
Restored mill – Arvieux
This teaching space is testimony to an intense agricultural way of life and man’s skill in transforming matter through harnessing natural resources without destroying the environment.
Set in the very heart of the valleys, mills were more than the product of a simple common effort, they were the most visible symbol of a sharing of one of life’s essentials: water…
Visit the tourist office for information on tours of the mill.
Musée de l’Ecole – Arvieux
The Quey’Racines association has reconstructed a classroom, which one might have found in the French Alps in years gone by, in the old school building in Brunissard.
Free tours two mornings a week.
Les Frissons de la Terre – Château-Ville-Vieille
This space devoted to geology has around fifteen different modules to help visitors learn about and understand each of the geological episodes in the birth of the Alps. More than half of the equipment is interactive, calling on visitors’ sense of touch and smell as well as hearing.
The geology centre is based in the Château Queyras and is open in July and August.
Beekeeping yesterday and today – Molines
Here in the Queyras, the local black bees gather up exquisite pollens to create an extremely delicate and fine honey.
Most of the hives are transported elsewhere in the winter, when the weather is too harsh.
The hives spend the winter months in the south of France and the local beekeepers bring them back to the Queyras in the spring.
Discover the world of bees (slideshow, glass sections through hives…) and the hives’ products (honey tasting).
Le Soum – Saint-Véran
The museum was created with the aim of preserving within the village itself a piece of its heritage, as an
example of its history and image in days gone by. Le Soum is a farm (1641) in the heart of the village, the aim of which is to present the traditional daily life of the locals.
Guided tours available for groups by appointment.
‘Famille Berge’ traditional old house – Saint-Véran
A unique and authentic farm in the lower part of the village. It was lived in, with the animals sharing the same living space, right up until 1976. In their original state: implements, furniture, common everyday objects, clothing.
Guided tours with former resident of the house available.
