The best museums Languedoc Roussillon

The Tourist Office of the Castellane Valley is an educational and entertaining place. In addition to selling local products, it offers artistic and cultural exhibitions as well as guided tours of the village and the church, from June to September. It is pleasant to continue the discovery by taking the forest path of the five senses which is intended to make discover the communal forest of Mosset thanks to the hiring of bicycles. The plus, the large terrace where you can refresh yourself outside the opening hours of the bars and shops of the village.

Furniture, tools, these testimonies of the past, which the inhabitants of the region bring, enrich the museum every day to rebuild the collections previously exposed in the halls of the castle of Castanet. Gradually, local heritage revives, thanks to a passionate association.

This museum of sacred art, the only one of its kind in the region, is one of the highlights of Pont-Saint-Esprit. Located in the Maison des Chevaliers, a 12th century building, it presents, in a very successful museographic dimension, ceremonial rooms, 14th and 15th century frescoes as well as a superb collection of religious goldsmithery. One passes from one era or civilization to another without chronology, with the artistic expression of the sacred as the guiding thread.

In the heart of an exceptional landscape, the access to the abbey founded by William of Orange and classified today as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, is through the cloister. The museum is located in the former refectory of the monks. Its collections bring together pieces from the old abbey and cover fifteen centuries of sculpture, since the Gallo-Roman era. An amphitheater allows visitors to travel through twelve centuries of history thanks to a 17-minute film and a virtual reconstruction allows visitors to imagine the cloister as it was in its original state.

It took two years of work to transform the Museum of Prehistory (created in 1952) into a museum of art and archaeology. 3,500 objects from the excavations carried out in the surrounding scrublands, most of them dating from the Neolithic period, are displayed in twelve themed showcases. There are flint and bone tools, ceramics, arrows, etc., as well as a variety of other objects. Projected films explain how they were made and a touch screen displays clips.