The best museums Champagne-Ardenne

This city museum, with its admirable exterior, was founded at the end of the nineteenth century on the city walls. It contains 25,000 objects relating to three specific areas: archeology, ornithology and art melting. It presents, among other things, the beautiful Merovingian tombs that have been discovered in the region, completely reconstituted, and artifacts of all kinds, from the Iron Age to Antiquity. See also: Gallo-Roman glassworks, the magnificent collection of some 150 birds, the fossilized skeleton of France's greatest iguanogift or the enchanting iron statue Néréid of the Lescuyer collection. Each will be able to evolve according to the enriched rooms of the latest acquisitions and restored works. Once again, you can admire Hector Guimard's achievements and learn more about this haute marnese art. On the façade, Jacques Perreaut's Fortifications sculpture represents the old strong square of the sixteenth century. Unfortunately, it is regrettable that timetables are increasingly restricted.

Holiday centre! Opened on September 13th, 2012, Espace Châlons Ville d'art et d'hisoire itself proposes, as the first step, to make you discover the city. A permanent exhibition is held here a stone's throw from the centre, on the second floor of the Maison du Patrimoine et de l'Architecture, using the most modern means to discover the history of Châlons until today. In the first area, visitors start the film by standing close to the screen: in ten minutes, they get a clear and general idean of the city's history... A geographical marker locates the elements that you choose on a map and allows you to draw your own itinerary. For children, a "material library" presents various building materials (chalk, cobwebs) and an interactive tablet offers games (puzzle, memory) around the elements of the heritage.

This museum is located in the old Vidamé de Châlons, a charming home with a portal of 1625. It is the residence of the Garinet that is reinstalled here, in the same way. In the last century, the widow of Jules Garinet bequeathed to the city the collections of art objects and curiosities of her husband and their furniture. We also admire numerous paintings from the 99 th century in the th century, as well as models of churches and cathedrals of France, works by Dr Mohen. Read: plan to arrive early in winter, because the first floor room does not have a lighting system…

Here, with 30,000 bottles year-round, we can claim to be specialists. The Hotte family (a name predestined to the country of Othe!) perpetuates tradition and preserves the remains of over 300 presses, which a time scattered the region. The décor is like the product: wooden grinding is a counter. The visit is free for the individual and guided for the groups, not to mention that Corinne and Gérard, the owners, are very available. They're having fun themselves with their old tools, and in September or October, it's the 17 th rush that's going to happen in the old, old-fashioned. Here, ciders and juice are 100% organic and based on local apple varieties exclusively. Special mention for organic apple juice silver medal 2018.

No question of remaining safely! Behind Notre-Dame-en-Vaux, this museum brings together the remains of the medieval cloister built in 1170 by the canons of the college. The site was demolished in 1759 and 1766, leaving room for other constructions, which réutilisèrent stones carved into their foundations. In recent demolitions, fortuitous discoveries called for more systematic excavations. Thus, the cloister was partially returned to the surface and recollé. It was in 1978 that the museum was inaugurated. A reconstituted serving of tiers allows to admire the statues-columns and the quality of the sculptures. So we can imagine the splendour of this work of art. To visit it, no single ticket but a pass giving access to three museums.

Here, in Place des Buttes, Lucien and Huguette Cordier set out a collection of antique sewing machines. An exhibition that recounts the history of this tool, which will pass through time. More than two hundred models to discover from 1850 to 1980, of all brands. A surprising museum, which brings us back to memories and tells us about the history of the sewing machine and the housewife who used it.

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.

The French Remembrance Museum is located in the village of Moëslains, 2 km from Saint-Dizier, facing BA 113. We're free to discover private collections and various objects related to conflict from 1870 to the present. To see: aircraft door models, letters, road books, weapons and many other things. For further information, please contact Mr. Dillon.

In 1883, the Bonnette brothers founded this malpractice that transformed barley into malt for beers or whiskys. Unfortunately, in 1975, the factory disappeared, doors closed. Thankfully, the building revived from its ashes in 1995 and a museum is built on the site. A playful discovery of the past century. In this former industrial site typical of the industrial revolution of the nineteenth century are the work of malt, the epic and the living environment. This free museum highlights a heritage (postcards, cuts, diplomas, models, paintings, vehicles) that illustrate the twentieth century thanks to donations from local families, businesses or friends of the city. It is also a place of culture since now painters, sculptors like Jean-Paul Méline or Di Ceglie, are exposed in an unusual setting. A double exit!

A little lost in the narrow streets of the Cap, this museum is set in a beautiful, typical hotel typical of Renaissance architecture, impressive by its portal and double staircase. From the name of the Cistercian Abbey of Vauluisant to which it depended, it fully falls within the theme of the year: the Renaissance. Built in the mid th century, it is the memory of what was the major industry in the city: bonneterie. The company Bugis, famous for its fabrics production, collaborated with a fashion photographer to pay tribute to the textile in an exhibition. Sets of textile machinery and production - lingerie, stockings, socks… - illustrate the evolution of fashion and techniques from the th century to the th century. He also has a collection of beautiful sculptures, paintings and a few stained glass windows of Linard Gonthier.