It is difficult to find unusual characters in everyday life... and yet...
The museum of everyday life
Already, in itself, having the idea of creating a museum dedicated, quite simply, to everyday life is unusual! But, in addition, it's very rich, very broad, and very surprising!
The Musée de la vie quotidienne de Saint-Martin en campagne gathers objects dating, in general, from the period 1880 to 1980, and deals with the daily life of the inhabitants of Petit-Caux, but also of the entire French population of that period.
The collections are presented thematically: agriculture, crafts and industry, trade and services, domestic, social and cultural life, with a detour to the Mercier House, a small aristocratic residence of the 15th century that also had an agricultural use, and perfectly representative of local architecture.
Through its various themes, it presents about a thousand objects that belong to it in its own right, donated by the association of the Musée des arts et traditions populaires du Talou, which has also entrusted 8000 of them to it on deposit, also presented.
Its purpose is described in the site itself: "Impressive printing machines from the late 19th century with characteristic orange Vendeuvre tractors, which, manufactured in the region in the past, criss-crossed the Normandy countryside, from work clothes to festive clothes from the 1920s to the 1970s, from the typewriters of 1890 to the Amstrad computers of the 1980s, from the cooper to the cart, from the shoemaker to the executioner... the association operates a work of memory and inventory on the basis of a transmission and knowledge of the know-how of yesteryear, thus restoring lives of labour. Images, lithographs, documentary films and exchanges complete his work as an ant and smuggler.
The shop
In museums, it is quite rare, unfortunately, to report shops for visitors. The Museum of Daily Life deserves a special mention, however, given its aim to extend the impact of the visit by offering reproductions of certain objects from the collections, or productions by local artists, for example.
Musée de la vie quotidienne
3, Rue de l'Ancienne Foire
76370 Petit-Caux
Tél. : 02 35 86 31 61
http://www.mhvq.fr/
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