The best museums Lorraine

Located in the tower (sixteenth century) of the ancient castle of Biesles, at the corner of the streets of the Castle and Fort-Maison, this museum, of which you pay the guided tour, displays through a collection of over 900 objects the past of the commune and region, as well as the archeological heritage with vestiges discovered in the Crypt of the church. Dummies, dressed in time clothing, retrace the true reality, with careful details and accessories. Prints and photographs complete this gallery on three levels.

This ethnographic museum is dedicated to forest professions in Reims Mountains and to forest life in the th and th centuries, illustrated by tools, documents, photographs… At the same time, the thematic exhibition proposes to follow a course. Contact at the Regional Natural Park of Reims Mountain: Nanteuil Road - POURCY 03 26 59 44 44. E-mail: [email protected].

It is in Joiselle, in a very old barn that you discover and admire this collection of ancient costumes and garments of all beauty. Thanks to this exhibition, we travel in time and in colours according to themes such as the history of silk. Here? it is Marie-Gabrielle Gérémia who gives you a guided tour and who tells you the magnificent masterpieces that she herself performs passionately.

It is in the attic of the town Hall of Orbais-the Abbey that you find this unusual museum that is the Yanni-False Museum. Here, between the beams are exposed to rather original objects. Collections of more authentic weather one than others, pottery of all motives and colours or even the appellants… Every year there is a different exhibition illustrating a theme. Interesting!

The museum features agricultural and household tools, reconstructions of agricultural, artisanale and domestic life from the 1950 th century to the s. All objects come from a private collection. See also, the military museum.

In this country of nature and hunting, discover an impressive collection of over 1 000 different traps. You can also see naturalized animals that have the particularity of being formerly harmful or classified as such. Thanks to this collection - the Trap Museum is a private museum - you will learn how our ancestors have taken to catch animals, since the time immemorial. So beware where you put your feet!

This museum offers a very colourful and complete overview of the geological wonders of the Ardennes and others from all over the world. Another room contains fossils dating back about 385 million years found in the Vireux-Molhain nature reserve, further north in the Meuse valley. There is also a dinosaur ditch footprint.