Musée pyrénéen de Lourdes, Mountain culture museum in Lourdes, France
The Musée Pyrénéen occupies a medieval fortress set on a hilltop and displays objects from French and Spanish Pyrenean cultures across multiple rooms. The collections provide a broad view of how people in the mountains lived and what they valued.
The museum was founded in 1921 and is housed in the historic castle of Lourdes. It received official recognition as a Musée de France in 2002.
The museum displays regional costumes, traditional furniture, and farming tools that show how people lived in the Pyrenees. Visitors can see the clothing and household items that were part of daily mountain life.
The museum is open daily from April through October, with shorter hours in winter months. The grounds are easy to reach, and the interior is laid out in a way that allows visitors to move through it at their own pace.
The grounds include a botanical garden featuring small-scale models of traditional mountain buildings. These reproductions show how people constructed and lived in homes during earlier times in the Pyrenees.
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