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Restored and built in a museum, the Hotel des Echevins houses the works of Maurice Estève (1904-2001). This painter from Culan donated to the city of Bourges a remarkable set of pieces representative of the evolution of his work. The artist's research and questioning, as well as his confrontation and participation in the artistic movements of the twentieth century, can be traced in chronological order. Little by little, abstraction replaces the figurative, its vision of the world thickens, light and balance impregnate its compositions. Estève began painting at the earliest age and only stopped in 1998. An amateur of great masters like Fouqet, Cézanne, Poussin or Uccello, he drew inspiration from his inspiration to feed his work throughout his life. The beautiful course of the museum is enhanced by the exceptional surroundings of the three floors of the Hotel des Echevins.

A few kilometres from Lignières, the Passing Fancies is a large property of the fifteenth century, beautifully restored. Le Pôle, owned by the General Council of Expensive, gathers one of equipment (horse race) and riding (quarries, course cross...) most of France. With more than 50 days of events annually, 7 of which meetings of races and national and international events of horse and carriage, jumps of obstacles, horse- ball and the competitions, attracting an increasing number of passionate horse and donkey but also a family public nature lovers and relaxation (rental, donkey rides cart, hiking...). It has a station of the national stud farms and the breed of Large Black donkey of Berry whose original is in Lignières. Each pentecost Monday, the fair with donkeys of Lignières attracts in the village of thousands of passionate donkeys of France. Le Pôle du Cheval and l'âne opened in June 2010 an unusual holiday village, which has a capacity of 200 beds in sedentary caravans. In July and August, walks in horse and carriage and hikes with your donkey daily on reservation.

A stage of the Jacques Coeur Road, the Museum des Métiers is established within the Silver Castle built in the xiiith century and has an elegant park where the promenade rhymes with pleasure, it is a beautiful domed nature drawn by the botanist and encyclopedist Duhamel of Montceau. Located just on its side, the Saint-André church, classified as a historic monument in 1944, built in the xiiith century and restored in 1892 by Octave Guérin, is pleasantly placed at the Trade Museum. Completely atypical, it proposes on three levels spaces recreating workshops of craftsmen of iron, fire and wood such as charron, cordier, blacksmith, dinandier, sabotage, sweetheart, joiner, carpenter, brass, brass, joiner, carpenters… fleurir the various traditions of architecture in France have disappeared well. This stated, a big thank you to the municipality that managed to preserve this construction coquette and its park, acquiring it in 1957, thus, by ricochet, embraced the motto of the Museum: Anyone who forgets his past is condemned to do so again. It would be wrong to forget to mention the magnificent collection of butterflies and birds in a room dedicated to Father Théophile Moreux (1867-1954), famous priest astronomer argentais.

The Hospice Saint-Roch Museum occupies the location of the former Hotel-Dieu founded in the XII century and rebuilds in the fifteenth century. This large and beautiful building comprises a chapel built at the end of the fifteenth century (beautiful Gothic tree), the rooms of the patients of the XII century and two wings of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. On more than 2,000 m ², there are four themes: ancient sculpture, pharmacy, extra-European arts, and contemporary creation. You will be able to admire the sculptures and objects gallo-roman, gallo-roman and merovingian, the paintings of xvie in the eighteenth century, the Clavecin hall of Jean Denis with its paintings of masters and furniture of the seventeenth century, or the collection of African and Oceanian arts of missionaries of the Sacred Heart. The nineteenth century pharmacy is also admirable with botanical collections, laboratory, tin pichets, beard dishes, and other mortars of the fifteenth century. Since 1995, an extension has been home to temporary exhibitions devoted to artists of our century (Fred Deux and Cécile Reims in particular). Beautiful collection of contemporary art. A very rich eclectic museum.

This museum complements the visit of Health, evoking the family of George Sand and his friends. It contains objects that belonged to the family, letters and drafts of George Sand, engravings of his son Maurice and paintings from the school of Crozant (Fernand Maillaud, Paul Street, Henri Kept). It is located in the Donjon dungeon (th) and is not accessible for wheelchairs or strollers. One can also admire an astonishing collection of naturalized birds. Educational visits are organized.

The museum store retains a well-restored industrial decor (metal staircase and wide openings). It offers the sale of ties, fantasy headlines, t-shirts, very nice fabric toys. The theme of fashion is also declined in book books and books. Exhibitions, for their part, almost always provide quality publications on fashion, clothing, patchwork and a wide selection of postcards.

A motor and industrial heritage bringing together everything that is rolling on is presented in this museum. Enthusiasts discover motor vehicles in all their forms of body from 1910 to 1965, the cycles from 1885 to 1940 and the old garage area that will seduce more than one mechanical lover. 30 vehicles are exposed, the oldest dating from the late th century. You will also see motorcycles, bikes and toys, for the pleasure of children and the greatest!

Like most of the houses on Grande-Rue in the upper town, the house of the Friends of the White dates from the 15th century. It is a small museum of art and popular traditions that evokes daily life in the 19th and early 20th centuries. There is the reconstruction of a Berry interior, the craftsmanship of the clog and shoemakers, the washers, the apothecary, the school of Jules Ferry, the bicycles in memory of the Dilecta bicycle factory. There is also a new exhibition featuring the Blançois cycle industry and the Dilecta professional sports team. Passionate volunteers take visitors on a tour of the museum.

The aqueduct of Maintenon is the last stretch of the gigantic canal Louis XIV wanted to build to divert the waters from the Eure to the fountains of Versailles. The remains still visible in the department, from Pontgouin and until this crossing of the valley of the Eure give an idea of the impressive size of this construction which will finally never be put into service. The aqueduct is about 30 metres high and surges over water over 950 metres.

Recently restored, the castle of Senonches now houses a museum space that celebrates its natural heritage: forest. The state forest of Senonches now covers 4 287 ha. It is the most important of the Eure-et-Loir, the Regional Nature Park of the Perche and one of the largest in France. In a modern and interactive course, you are aware of the forest ecosystem before discovering all the riches of the senonchoise forest. Through its history, you discover both the lives of these men and women who lived and lived it. Understanding the forest will raise awareness of the challenges in which it is now and for tomorrow: sustainable development.

Everything, everything, you will know everything… on the history of Saint Denis of Authou. The permanent exhibition exhibits archival documents, photographs and old objects. The museum contains a collection of sacerdotal clothing.

The museum reconstituted an interior percheron from the end of the century, amateurs of popular tradition will be filled, and wealth of heritage is thus represented.

In the village, the school museum re a class of the beginning of the century. School documents and written testimonies from former students complete a history of the school in France. Encriers, feathers and porte, a black table where the day's morality is recorded, small benches of wooden schoolchildren, the wood stove at the bottom of the class, berets and the vareuses of children, everything contributes to recreating an atmosphere of the beginning of the th century.

Photos and surrounding school classes allow the people of the Cru to recognize themselves. A permanent exhibition animates the summer season. And you can also discover inside Emigration farm, the universe of Unverre's little pupil.

To discover how people lived in the past, this animated museum recounts the daily life of the father and mother Mousset 150 years ago. Transformed into a lively museum, this house in traditional habitat presents their lives, from the cellar to the attic and to the dependencies. The church, school and bistro were also reconstructed. Groups (on reservation only) will benefit in addition to a tasting of local products or a taste, choice.

Aristide Sparrow, a successful singer and writer from the turn of the th and th centuries, was born in Courtenay. Time has passed, but no one has forgotten the black felt and red scarf silhouette. This celebrity found his champion in the person of J. Dubois-Bermand who gave him a thesis and then a museum, installed in his property. You will find the cabaret atmosphere of this time, documents and posters during a guided tour accompanied by the master of the places - a personality - who, like or not, will make you grow her dancing at the end of the visit. You can also leave the arms responsible for the two-volume biography he devoted to the poet. The visit is unforgettable…

Not far from the town centre of Dreux, the Museum des Vignerons et Artisans Drouais makes us a wine-making company. From the cellars to the attic by the museum, the stable or the gardens, you will discover the old agricultural and craft practices of the th century in the th century. An introduction to wine-growing and wine oenology as well as a wine tasting and a sale of products will also be offered. Above the street, walks in the vineyards are possible to discover a well-known heritage.

For all Lovers of old vehicles, the Retro Mobile Club Drouais invites you to discover its collection. Between 1980 th century cycles, motorcycles and cars in the first half of the th century, this museum, founded in, offers several reconstructions, including an ancient toy area and a car garage that will seduce small and large. Enthusiasts discover motor vehicles in all their forms from 1910 to 1965, cycles from 1885 to 1940.