The best museums Haute-Savoie

In collaboration with the Rodin Museum in Paris.

Founded in 1902 by the sculptor Alfred Boucher, the Ruche is a city of artists located in the th arrondissement of Paris. It houses one of the most important artistic centres of the th century. Originally created to help artists without resources, the venue welcomed great artists such as Modigliani, Artists, Brancusi, and especially Chagall, which was one of the most illustrious tenants. The Surnom's nickname was from the founder who compared creative artists with creativity to bees.

To date, the Ruche has workshops of all sizes, where many artists still reside. Some 240 works, paintings, sculptures, photos, videos and various installations are exhibited to illustrate more than a century of creation through the works of so-called "modern" and contemporary artists.

Les Granges only has they are worth visiting, magnificent good massive building renovated with exposed beams, stone walls and rustic to perfection. Inside, the Milouti museum presents a wide range of old tools used by the peasants and the craftsmen of the past centuries. In the same enchanting setting, contemporary art exhibitions are held.

At the boundary of the Regional Natural Park of the Bauges, between Annecy and Aix-les-Bains, the Nature Museum has discovered the regional fauna of more than 200 animals found dead, naturalized and assembled on 300 m ² for over 20 years. Your visit: After being greeted by farm animals, the forest discovers its fauna with wild boar, deer, and lynx. Then we enter the land of middle mountain animals, sheep sheep, marmot, great crow. These are then animals of wetlands, ducks, herons, ragondins. Fact sheets allow to follow their lives. A collection of minerals and insects completes the museum and, from April to October, the lives of more than 20 000 bees are observed through the glass walls of a hive, beekeeper equipment, modern or old hives complete the visit.