Musée de la poterie méditerranéenne

Over het museum

Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie has a pottery tradition said to date back to the Middle Ages. In the early 1980s, excavations in the village and its surroundings uncovered medieval kilns. A revival followed: young potters settled in the village, a pottery market was created, and the municipality bought a former oil mill to turn it into the Maison de la Terre.

In 1987, a small museum of terrailles was set up there. In 1997, landscape designers offered to lend their collection of 900 utilitarian ceramics from the Mediterranean countries. The Musée de la Poterie méditerranéenne opened to the public in July 1998, run by the association Terres de Méditerranée. In 2009, it received the Qualité Sud de France and Qualité Tourisme labels.

Today the museum occupies about 400 m² over two floors and eleven rooms in a 16th-century oil mill. It presents the collection of glazed pottery from Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, with pipes and terraillettes from the Job Clerc manufactory, and a collection of utilitarian ceramics from around the Mediterranean.

Hoogtepunten

• More than 1,200 utilitarian ceramics across eleven rooms
• Glazed pottery from Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, including the toupin (cooking pot)
• Pipes and terraillettes from the Job Clerc manufactory
• About 700 Mediterranean ceramics for water, cooking and storage
• Free trail for children aged 6 to 12

Vaste collectie

• Collection saint-quentinoise – Glazed pottery from Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie, pipes and terraillettes from the Job Clerc manufactory.
• Collection méditerranéenne – About 700 glazed, unglazed and utilitarian ceramics from around the Mediterranean, for carrying water, cooking food or storing grain.

Opgericht

1998

Beheerder

Association Terres de Méditerranée

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

Payment in cash, by bank card, check or chèque vacances.

Toegankelijkheid

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

The museum has many staircases and is not accessible to visitors with reduced mobility.

Kinderen & gezin

Erg geschikt voor kinderen & gezinnen

• Speurtocht, doeboekje of kinderaudiotour

A free trail is available at the reception desk for children aged 6 to 12.

Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

The museum is in the Maison de la Terre, next to the Galerie Terra Viva, in Saint-Quentin-la-Poterie near Uzès.

Service & horeca

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Evenementen & zaalverhuur

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