Musée des Thoniers

Over het museum

Étel, a fishing village of sardine fishermen, became a fully independent commune in 1850. At the end of the 19th century, sardine crises made albacore fishing, or white tuna, the main activity. In the 1930s the port had around 250 sailing tuna boats and about ten canneries. After the war, motor boats revived the activity; the fleet gradually moved to Lorient around 1960, and recreational boating replaced fishing around the end of the 1980s.

The association Autrefois Étel was founded in 1987 to collect archives, photographs and objects linked to the local maritime past. In 1990 it opened the Maison du Patrimoine in the former maritime cooperative. When the building was brought up to standard in 2001, it took the name Musée des Thoniers, officially inaugurated on December 15, 2001.

Since 2002 the museum has expanded and improved every season, with new rooms, better visitor comfort and events. The route is organised around sardines, tuna and sailing, trawlers, sea rescue and local heritage, complemented by temporary exhibitions by artists.

Hoogtepunten

• Models of dundees and trawlers from Étel
• Exhibition on the storm of 1930
• Reconstruction of a sailor’s cabin on board a trawler
• Room devoted to sea rescue (SNSM, CROSS Étel)
• Screening room for documentaries on local heritage

Vaste collectie

• La sardine avant le thon – Explanatory panels and models on the sardine industry in 20th-century Brittany and on fishing techniques.
• Le thon et la voile – Dundee models illustrating tuna fishing in Étel, and an exhibition on the devastating storm of 1930.
• Étel, grand port chalutier – History of deep-sea fishing in Étel in the 20th century, with trawl models and a reconstructed sailor’s cabin.

Opgericht

2001

Beheerder

Association Autrefois Étel & sa région

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

Toegankelijkheid

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

According to the Morbihan tourism portal: adapted outdoor and indoor routes, adapted parking and adapted toilets.

Kinderen & gezin

Erg geschikt voor kinderen & gezinnen

• Gezinsrondleidingen & workshops

Activities, workshops and games for the whole family; activities adapted for school classes. Family rate and special rates for ages 8 to 17.

Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

The museum is near the harbour; red “musée” signs show the way. By car from Rennes, Vannes or Lorient: A82/RN165, exit Carnac-Quiberon, direction Belz–Étel. On foot or by bike, paths and a greenway (Voie verte) start from Belz, Erdeven and Plouhinec.

Service & horeca

• Museumwinkel

Shop with books on the sea and local history, postcards and souvenirs.

Evenementen & zaalverhuur

Het museum heeft hierover geen informatie gepubliceerd.

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