The Foundry Museum, the memory of a life
When we talk about a museum, we try to describe what it presents. In this case, and well beyond what it exhibits, the Foundry Museum is the evocation of the life of a village.
Indeed, if Rosières was geographically well situated for the development of this activity, it was also quite far from everything, since the nearest big city, Bourges, is 20 kilometers away. Of course, today, this distance does not seem to be a problem, but, in the nineteenth century... it was longer!
So, the successive managements gradually created everything necessary for local life: first of all, workers' housing, with its roads, and then, little by little, schools, cemetery, but also cooperatives, sports clubs, etc. In short, the city and the factory had become one and the same entity, one and the same life.
Memory...
It was only in 1987, when the factory was sold to an Italian group, Candy, that the new management withdrew from all extra-professional activities.
The need to preserve the memory of this human adventure was felt at the time, as the Foundry Museum opened in 2000, while the foundry activity itself did not stop until 2006.
And it is with the inhabitants themselves, actors, with their parents and grandparents, of this history, that many elements exposed were sought...
Museum of the foundry
Place Léon Dupuis
18400 Rosières
Tel : 02 48 68 90 95
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