The best museums Haute-Vienne

One of the 52 old houses in the Boucherie district was transformed into a ecomuseum. Unique in France, it is the faithful restoration of the living framework of a th century butchers family, members of the most powerful corporation in the city. The shop and its accessories, the rooms reserved for slaughter and salting, the greniers where the sheep and pig skins are drying, the apartments of the masters and the household, the furniture and various objects are discovered. Writings and photos complete the table. In addition, the visit of Saint-Aurélien Chapel dedicated to the patron saint of this fraternity.

Near the bridge spanning La Creuse, from which one has a beautiful overview of the village, is the tool of the Tool in rural areas. Housed in the abbey's former mill, it contains more than a thousand old tools, machines and instruments and evokes dozens of old crafts. Temporary exhibitions.

Greeted by a giant granite pot, the visitor plunges into the origins of the planet. On 3 levels, 3 000 minerals and 500 petrographic rocks for a voyage from the Urals to Limousin, passing through Madagascar and Saudi Arabia. Local mining production (gold, wolfram, uranium, kaolin) is also represented. In the lower room, the most imposing rocks appear to float in space. On the first floor, minerals are classified by family and scientific category. The space Jean Ventenat (the name of the former teacher) presents the collection of the latter: more than 1 600 specimens including exceptional parts from the Ambazac Mountains, the old mine of Chaillac (in the Indre) and all the Limousin, gathered for over 50 years. In a very different area, the museum also opened a space dedicated to the humanist photographer Izis refugee in Ambazac during World War II. Sixty-one of his photographs are exhibited. It also discovered its reconstituted laboratory as well as the portraits of the Resistance resistance, photographed by Izis in 1944.