office of curiosity...


Museum’s ancestor and

at the origin of scientific progress...


The offices of curiosities regrouped plants, works of art, animals and mysterious object collections. The one at Virebent uses the alchemy of earth, water and fire to give life to a collection of strange and heterogeneous objects.

 

NATURAL HISTORY PAVILION
The natural history pavilion is an element of the beginning of science. It regroups all the living species that where fruit of conquests and expeditions. It presents an exotic and unknown nature.

VANITY GALLERY
The vanity gallery stigmatizes the uselessness of world’s pleasures. The cranium reminds us of the frailty and brevity of human life, the skeletons have a transitory character.

MAGIC ROOM
The magic room groups all hidden science objects that allow to influence things and beings by the calling of secret natural forces. The room dismantles the superiority of the human spirit.

FOSSIL OFFICE
The Fossil office proves that other forms of life existed before man. It asks about the origins of life and a possible relation between the species.

ROOM OF WONDERS
The magic room groups all hidden science objects that allow to influence things and beings by the calling of secret natural forces. The room dismantles the superiority of the human spirit.

HERBARIUM LIBRARY
The herbarium library sees nature as a scientific matter. In regrouping and classifying the species, the library testifies their richness and diversity.

THE XX CENTURY SALON
The XX century salon regroups the objects born with the associating industry, at the time of the conception of the usage and the design. They are reflections of their era.

SO KITSCH
inspires itself from the traditional cultures and folk art with humour to illustrate  in a comic way our day-after-day products.

la route des métiers d'arts entreprise du patrimoine vivant
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