Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Métiers traditionnels Museums in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
30 museumsAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes is home to 30 museums dedicated to traditional trades and craftsmanship. The Opinel Museum, the House of the Canuts, and the Cutlery Museum bear witness to regional expertise passed down through generations. This region is the beating heart of French artisanal traditions, where the history of crafts and trades remains alive. Discover below the 30 museums listed on The Artwork Room.
30 musées
Musée Opinel
The Opinel Museum, located in Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne in Savoy, is dedicated to the history of the famous Savoyard cutlery founded in 1890 by Joseph Opinel. Set up over nearly 700…
25 Rue Jean Jaurès
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La Maison des Canuts
The House of the Canuts is a workshop-museum located on the Croix-Rousse plateau in Lyon, dedicated to the history of Lyonnese silk production. Its permanent exhibition traces the…
10 Rue d'Ivry
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Musée de la Coutellerie
The Cutlery Museum, a municipal establishment, is located in Thiers in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, a city historically recognized for its cutlery industry. The museum traces the social a…
23 Rue de la Coutellerie
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Scénomusée la Toinette et Julien
The Scénomusée la Toinette et Julien is a local history museum located in Murat-le-Quaire, at the foot of the Sancy massif in Auvergne. It offers immersive guided tours retracing r…
Cour de la Mairie, 106 Rte de la Banne d'Ordanche
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Musée, Domaine des Saveurs - Les Planons
The Domaine des Saveurs – Les Planons is a museum established since 2003 in a rural setting in the municipality of Saint-Cyr-sur-Menthon, in Ain. Located on an estate comprising a…
987 Chem. des Seiglières
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Musée des Sapeurs-Pompiers
The Lyon-Rhône Firefighters Museum is dedicated to the history and professions of firefighters. It has two locations and presents collections of period objects and vehicles, as wel…
358 Av. de Champagne
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Village-Musée de la Combe de Savoie
The Village-Museum of the Combe de Savoie is an ecomuseum located in Grésy-sur-Isère in Savoie, on the hillside of the right bank of the Isère, between Montmélian and Albertville,…
530 Chem. des Carrières du Salin
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Musée Histoire de la galoche
The Museum of the History of the Galosh is located in a dependency of the medieval castle of Virieu, in the Bourbre valley, in Isère. Opened in 2019, it is the only French ecomuseu…
Musee de la galoche - Château de Virieu-Virieu FR
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Musée de la soie
The Silk Museum is located in Taulignan in Drôme provençale, in a region marked by an important silk-farming tradition. Since 1730, the town has hosted the first silk-worm breeding…
Pl. du Onze Novembre
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Musée de la Fourme et des Traditions
The Museum of Fourme and Traditions, located in Sauvain in Loire, is dedicated to daily life and former trades of the Monts du Forez. Situated in the heart of a mountain commune, i…
2 place Louis Lépine
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Musée De L' Agriculture Auvergnate
The Museum of Auvergnat Agriculture, located in Coltines in the Cantal, occupies the building of the Ostal de la Marissou. Created at the initiative of Joseph Boudou, former mayor…
Le bourg
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Musée Alice Taverne
The Alice Taverne Museum is located in Ambierle in Loire, in a village of character. Opened to the public in 1951, it is housed in an 18th-century bourgeois house and bears the nam…
89 Rue de la Grye
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Musée du Tissage et de la Soierie
The Weaving and Silk Museum, located in Bussières in Loire, is dedicated to the preservation and transmission of the region's textile heritage. Founded in 1977 at the initiative of…
125 Pl. Vaucanson
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Musée de la Vie Rurale
The Museum of Rural Life, established in 1990 at the Gargues Estate in Saint-Quentin-Fallavier in Isère, is dedicated to the agricultural and craft heritage of the region. Its coll…
Rue des Gargues
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Musée de l’Industrie textile
The Vienna Textile Industry Museum traces the history of cloth-making activity that dominated the local economy from the 17th century to the present day. Housed in a renovated form…
4 Rue Victor Faugier
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Musée de la dentelle
The Lace Museum, located in Arlanc in Puy-de-Dôme, is a rural museum dedicated to the art and craftsmanship of bobbin and needle lace. It offers visitors a discovery of this textil…
53 Rte nationale
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Musée des Métiers et traditions
The Museum of Trades and Traditions is housed in the Olliergues castle in Puy-de-Dôme. It presents the craftsmanship and traditions of the Dore valley through reconstituted worksho…
11 Rue du Château
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Musée de la vigne et du vin de Basse-Auvergne
Aubière · Puy-de-Dôme
Musée de la vigne et du vin de Basse-Auvergne
The Museum of Vine and Wine is located in Aubière, in Puy-de-Dôme, in cellars dating from the 17th and 18th centuries, formerly called "Cave à Madame". The museum documents the win…
24 Av. Jean Noellet
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La Manufacture du Haut-Beaujolais
The Écomusée du Haut-Beaujolais, located in Thizy-les-Bourgs in the Rhône department, is housed within La Manufacture, a rehabilitated venue reflecting the industrial and rural his…
La Manufacture, 570 Chem. des Pierres Plantées
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Musée de la Vigne et du vin
The Museum of Vine and Wine is located in Vieille-Brioude, in Haute-Loire, in the Burgundy-Franche-Comté region. It documents the local wine-growing history, particularly the histo…
Pl. de l'Église
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Les Granges de Servette
Les Granges de Servette is an associative museum located in Chens-sur-Léman, in Haute-Savoie, in the hamlet of Collongette. The museum houses a permanent collection combining conte…
224 Chem. des Granges de Servette
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Musée Trévoux et ses Trésors
The Trévoux and its Treasures Museum is housed in the Hôtel Pierre et Anne de Bourbon, a 15th-century Trévoux residence, and traces the history of the Principality of Dombes, of wh…
Grande Rue
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Ruches du monde
Ruches du monde is a museum dedicated to the living bee and beekeeping traditions, located in Comps in Drôme provençale. The venue offers an exhibition on the bee and its related p…
495 chemin de l'église
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Musée « Mémoire d’Autrefois »
The "Mémoire d'Autrefois" museum is located in Ambronay, in Ain, in the heart of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It presents local and regional heritage through a collection of ap…
25 Chem. de Ronde
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Kim en Joong - Vitraux
The Kim en Joong Stained Glass Museum is located in Ambert, in Puy-de-Dôme, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is dedicated to the art of stained glass, an important patrimonia…
Place Charles de Gaulle
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Musée du chapeau
Chazelles-sur-Lyon · Loire
Musée du chapeau
The Hat Museum is an ecomuseum and site museum located in Chazelles-sur-Lyon, in Loire, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Established in a rural area, it is part of an initiative…
31 Rue Martouret, 42140 Chazelles-sur-Lyon, France
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Musée des manufactures de dentelles
The Museum of Lace Manufactures of Retournac, in Haute-Loire, preserves an entire lace manufacturing workshop in its original building. Unique in France in the field of decorative…
14 Av. de la Gare, 43130 Retournac, France
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Musée de la Bourrellerie
The Museum of Saddlery is located in Luc-en-Diois, a small village in the Drôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Dedicated to saddlery, a traditional trade involving…
Rue des Écoles
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Musée Rural Montacutain
The Montacutain Rural Museum, located in Montaigu-le-Blin in Allier, is a local history museum dedicated to rural life in the 19th and 20th centuries. Housed on the first floor of…
Le Bourg, 03150
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Musées de la soierie
The Charlieu Museums, housed in the former 18th-century Hôtel-Dieu, bring together two distinct collections: the Silk Museum and the Hospital Museum. The first occupies the former…
7 Jardin des Musées, 42190 Charlieu, France
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