Prissac
Brissac is a small town of less than 700 inhabitants, and it likes the number three... around the town center, there are thirty-three hamlets, the town is crossed by three rivers which offer 50 km of banks to the fishermen, there are three castles... and three museums!
Three museums? Yes, first the agricultural machinery, then, in 1993, the history of the rural post office, and in 1997, the evolution of the printing industry, with, as a reception room for the whole, "the old house"...
The museum of agricultural machinery
It was created on the initiative of a local resident who was, guess what... an agricultural mechanic! The result is a remarkable collection of more than 570 exhibits!
The museum of the rural letter carrier
This time, the initiative came from two letter carriers of the Indre Departmental Direction. And now, vehicles, bags, mailboxes, posters, photos, instructions, and various materials remind us of the "rounds" of the countryside, forever immortalized by Jacques Tati in "Jour de fête" filmed in Sainte-Sévère, not far from there...
The printing museum
Here again, it is someone from the trade who is at the initiative of this third museum, the son of a printing craftsman, typographer, and then linotypist himself. It is a whole technical evolution which is presented, a collection which he gathered with the support of the municipality, and of the tourist office of Bélâbre.
The whole...
These three museums, human and authentic, in their equally authentic decor, form an endearing and moving whole, which is really worth a visit...
The three Museums of Prissac
33, Route de Bélâbre
36 370 Prissac
Tel : 02 54 25 06 85
or Prissac City Hall : 02 54 25 00 10
mairiedeprissac@orange.fr
https://troismuseesprissac.jimdofree.com/
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