Museum of regional art and folklore

Description

In a former 18th-century family farmhouse, discover the largest collection of rural objects in Haute-Savoie: more than 20,000 items bearing witness to life before modernization, assembled by Bernard Lacroix.

The Musée d'Art et de Folklore Régional de Fessy, also known as Muséâm, is one of France's most important collections devoted to the rural world. Housed in an 18th-century house, it boasts an exceptional collection of objects assembled by Bernard Lacroix, a local farmer and artist.

"I worked neither as an aesthete, nor as a philanthropist, nor as a historian, nor as a collector, but rather as an artist, and quite selfishly I confess, for my own pleasure, the reassuring pleasure of going back to my source, my roots, my origins... In 1960, overwhelmed by the magnitude of what I had amassed, I reluctantly decided to open my collection to the public. My consolation is to see thousands of children come and go. May they one day understand that indiscriminate progress contributes nothing to the richness of the soul, and even less to the quality of life. Here, all is love, measure and modesty... Unable to buy them, the peasant made his own furniture, tools and machines, adding his own personal discoveries: poverty makes you ingenious".

The museum is organized into several areas: a grocery store, domestic rooms, a bakery, agriculture and numerous reconstructed workshops - clogmaker, shoemaker, carpenter, weaver - not forgetting the forge, the indispensable heart of artisanal life.

The tour of the farm rooms is guided by members of the Muséâm' de Fessy association (duration approx. 1 hour), for a lively immersion in rural daily life of yesteryear.

Guided tours for individuals in summer, and tours and workshops for groups all year round.

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