Maison Rouge, Cultural heritage museum in Saint-Jean-du-Gard, France.
Maison Rouge is a museum housed in a former silk spinning mill and contains about 10,000 objects that record how people lived in the Cévennes valleys. The rooms display work tools, household items, and other artifacts from daily life in this mountain region.
The building was originally one of France's oldest silk spinning facilities and was later preserved as an industrial landmark. After comprehensive restoration work, it reopened in 2018 as a regional museum.
The museum displays how mountain communities in the Cévennes lived and worked, revealing the tools and objects connected to their daily routines. The exhibits show what local plants and materials people relied on for survival and labor.
The museum is open Wednesday through Sunday and welcomes visitors to explore its exhibition spaces. Plan to spend a few hours walking through the collections and visiting the connected garden outside.
The garden behind the museum grows plants that have thrived in the region for centuries and that people traditionally used. This botanical area connects the collected objects indoors with the living landscape outside.
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