The best specialized museums Lorraine

The museum gathers a collection of 110,000 images and woods from French and foreign picture centers. The permanent exhibition room retraces the history of popular imagery from the 17th century to the present day: religious images, propaganda images, advertisements... The museum has a modern scenography and many works of contemporary art. Each year, temporary exhibitions explore these themes in greater depth. The museum recently proposed an exhibition entitled "At the origins of the comic strip: the popular image".

Near the Vosges, in one of the most wooded communes of the Meuse is the only museum in the Lorraine horse. It is in the enclosure of a former fort castle, in the upper town of Gondrecourt and which Richelieu ordered Destruction in 1633, that you can discover the different collections. In the proud Round Tower that has remained standing, we are aware of the driving force of the animal, its essential role in the culture of the land, in the army and in the crafts. We discover a multitude of objects devoted to the horse: stirrups, necklaces, jaws, stools of different eras and fers. See also: the work tools of the you-farriers and the bourrelier and the care room. Horse lovers will appreciate.

This charming and original museum offers you to discover mechanical instruments where creativity is queen. It all started in the th century when it was good for the bourgeois to own an imported serin from the Canaries. The first organs, called Serinette de Mirecourt, were to educate the scarcely of the Canaries, the fashion birds for their vocal qualities. They will be replaced quickly by mazurkas, quadrilles, quadrille and waltzes. A passage in this temple of mechanical music, born of the will of some enthusiasts, reveals amazing things about the rich history of the Orgues organ factors. Indeed, the city has acquired a reputation for its church organs as well as for fairs or fair. The museum presents a rich collection of instruments in perfect condition for the pleasure of the big and the small, which is the fruit of the work of Maurice Dussour and his daughter Françoise, both passionate.