Salines de Salies-de-Béarn

Over het museum

Salies-de-Béarn developed around a salt spring known since antiquity. For centuries, salt water was distributed through the town by a spiral network centered on the Place du Bayaà. In 1840 a law required salt producers to make at least 500,000 kg a year, which concentrated production on a single site: this is how the Salines de Salies-de-Béarn began.

According to the salt works' website, it is today the only one still using the open-air salt pan technique. The salt comes from a spring and is harvested in large basins.

Visitors see production from a free observation point, with explanatory panels (for example on skimming the fleur de sel). A museum route with audioguide in French, English and Spanish, lasting about one hour, covers the development of the town and the legend of the wild boar. The visit ends with a tasting of Jambon de Bayonne salted with the spring's salt. A shop at the reception desk sells salt and salted products.

Hoogtepunten

• Open-air salt works with an observation point over the basins
• Museum route with audioguide (French, English, Spanish)
• Legend of the wild boar and history of the salt town
• Tasting of Jambon de Bayonne salted with Salies salt
• Shop with salt and salted products

Vaste collectie

• Espace muséographique des Salines – Route on the use of the salt spring, the legend of the wild boar and the development of the town, with an observation point over the production basins.

Opgericht

2013

Beheerder

Société d’exploitation des Salines de Salies-de-Béarn

Toegangsprijzen & kortingen

Toegankelijkheid

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

Step-free route; parking for about 15 cars, including 2 spaces for visitors with reduced mobility. Floor guidance markings outside and inside, seats along the route (including in the video room), induction loop, written visit aid on request.

Kinderen & gezin

Bereikbaarheid & parkeren

Service & horeca

• Museumwinkel

Shop at the reception desk (salt and salted products), accessible without taking the visit.

Evenementen & zaalverhuur

Het museum heeft hierover geen informatie gepubliceerd.

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