Musée de Cerdagne

Over het museum

The museum occupies the Cal Mateu estate in Sainte-Léocadie, a large 18th-century Cerdanya farm. After the Treaty of the Pyrenees in 1659, Cerdanya was split in two, and 33 villages became French. In 1689, François Sicart, a notary from Saillagouse, became viguier of Cerdanya, that is, the king's representative. His modest farm in Sainte-Léocadie then became a viguerie, the seat of royal power for about a century.

The Revolution abolished the office of viguier. In 1810 the estate was sold to a merchant, Mathieu Riu, and took its present name of Cal Mateu. It remained a working farm until the 1990s, when the tenant farmers Jacques and Marie Bragulat, who had lived there since 1952, retired. The site has been a listed historic monument since 1984 and has held the “Musée de France” label since 1997.

The permanent exhibitions tell the story of Cerdanya through the ages: the border, smuggling, the forest and woodworking, and rural life, including a reconstructed Cerdan kitchen and the barn of the last tenant farmer. The high-altitude kitchen garden, at 1,330 metres, preserves old and local varieties of vegetables, cereals and forage plants.

Hoogtepunten

• The “CERDAGNE-CERDANYA – Dialogues with the border” exhibition on the division of Cerdanya between two countries
• “Halte douane!”: smuggling yesterday and today
• “De l'arbre à l'objet”: the forest and the tools of woodworking
• Reconstructed Cerdan kitchen, bread oven and Jacques's barn
• High-altitude kitchen garden at 1,330 metres, with Cerdan rye and Cerdanya pear trees

Vaste collectie

• CERDAGNE-CERDANYA – Dialogues avec la frontière – An exhibition on the division of Cerdanya between two countries and its administrative, political and social consequences for the mountain population.
• HALTE DOUANE ! – Contrebande d'hier et d'aujourd'hui – Petty and large-scale smuggling shows how residents live near the border and adapt to it in their daily lives.
• DE L'ARBRE À L'OBJET – Presentation of the forest, its use over the centuries, and the tools needed to work wood.

Beheerder

Communauté de communes Pyrénées Cerdagne

Bezoekers per jaar

ca. 4.824

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

Payment by bank card, check or cash. Paid workshops (for example Cluedo, cooking, leatherwork or wood carving) are also offered, including packages of 3 or 5 workshops; prices are listed on the practical information page.

Toegankelijkheid

• Deels rolstoeltoegankelijk
• Lift: geen informatie
• Aangepast toilet
• Gehandicaptenparkeerplaats
• Hulphonden welkom: geen informatie
• Tastmodellen / voelbare objecten: geen informatie
• Rondleidingen in gebarentaal: geen informatie
• Informatie in eenvoudige taal
• Audiodescriptie: geen informatie

The museum holds the “Tourisme & Handicap” label for intellectual and hearing disabilities. About 30% of the exhibition rooms and the kitchen garden are accessible to people with reduced mobility; the rest of the site is not, because of its old, listed architecture. Accessible exhibitions: borders and smuggling, the reconstructed Cerdan kitchen and the temporary exhibition. One parking space right next to the entrance and two spaces on the town hall side. Adapted restroom, fixed induction loop at reception, and an easy-to-read and easy-to-understand (FALC) booklet on request.

Kinderen & gezin

Erg geschikt voor kinderen & gezinnen

• Gezinsrondleidingen & workshops
• Speurtocht, doeboekje of kinderaudiotour

The “chasse aux objets” game booklet (free, available at reception) invites visitors to find 16 objects in the galleries. Workshops for children and playful QR-code trails are also offered.

Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

The museum holds the “Accueil Vélo” label. The museum recommends carpooling.

Service & horeca

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Evenementen & zaalverhuur

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