Écomusée du Pays des Collines

Om museet

The Écomusée du Pays des Collines is not a single museum but a group of several spaces, all a few metres apart in the village of La Hamaide, in Ellezelles. It invites visitors to discover how life and work in the countryside have changed since 1850.

The visit starts at the former presbytery, which houses the reception, an exhibition, the shop and an estaminet. It continues at the old school, where you can write with a quill at the original benches, and in the Maison Louise, an authentic small farm from the 1950s with its grocery shop and living rooms. There is also a room devoted to the harvest and old farm machinery, a working beehive (visible on a guided tour) and a clog-making workshop that is currently being renovated.

The permanent exhibition “Chroniques d’une servante” uses objects and testimonies to evoke local history and the work of women in former times. Every August the ecomuseum also organises the harvest festival, which has existed for more than 45 years.

Højdepunkter

• Old school: write with a quill on the original benches
• Maison Louise, a 1950s farm with its grocery shop
• Permanent exhibition “Chroniques d’une servante”
• Harvest room and working beehive
• Harvest festival every year in August

Permanente udstillinger

• Chroniques d’une servante – Exhibition on the first floor of the former presbytery, with historical objects and testimonies on local history and the work of women in former times.
• L’école d’autrefois – Classroom of yesteryear where visitors sit on the benches and write with a quill; a neighbouring room displays old games and toys.
• La Maison Louise – Authentic small farm from the 1950s, from the grocery shop to the living rooms, to discover the way of life in “the old days”.

Entrépriser & rabatter

Visits must be booked in advance.

Tilgængelighed

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Børn og familie

Velegnet til børn og familier

• Familieomvisninger & workshops
• Interaktive stationer

Playful activities for young and old: grinding coffee, writing with a quill, playing old wooden games. One room of the former school is devoted to games and toys of yesteryear.

Transport & parkering

La Hamaide lies between Lessines, Frasnes-lez-Anvaing and Ath, on the N529; take exit 29 (Lessines) or 31 (Frasnes) of the A8/E429 motorway. The ecomuseum can serve as a starting point for a walk or bike ride along the points-nœuds (node network) routes.

Service & spisesteder

• Café
• Museumsbutik

Reconstructed estaminet on the ground floor of the presbytery, with a terrace and garden in summer. Shop selling old games, old school materials and publications about the Pays des Collines.

Arrangementer & udlejning

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