Entrance of the Museum
in Bourgneuf En Retz
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In the audio-visuel room, a short document will invite
you to a visit in the «Pays de Retz».
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The soil in our country will be showed to you with
maps and lots of geological samples.
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Three glass cabinets have been provided with archeological
objects from the different periods of prehistory in our country.
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Coifs and
local costumes are presented in six glass
cabinets, describing a more recent past. There, you will find all the domestic
objects which were used by our ancestors.
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After a temporary exposition, you will be presented
the different activities which were provided by the sea: salt and salt-marshes,
fishing
and some old fishing-boats as well as the different shell-fishes still
living on the sea shore.
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Then you will see the old agricultural tools that
the farmers of old times used.
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A presentation of an older open-air craft will show
you that brick working was one of our most important local industries.
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When you have visited an old residence of the country,
you will be presented the old craftmen: blacksmith,
carpenter,
shoemaker,
sabotmaker,
spinner,
innekeeper,
cooper
and the bakehouse.
We hope that your visit will help you to appreciate our «Pays
de Retz». |
