Écomusée du Viroin

A Farm Castle classified as heritage of Wallonia

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Clogs and Wooden Shoes making demonstration

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Focus on artisanal handicraft

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Year-round activities for young and old

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An Ecomuseum ...
a territory ..

a story.

Located in the Castle Farm of Treignes, impressive building dating back to its oldest part to sixteenth century, the Ecomuseum of the Viroin offers to its visitors and users to (re) discover the rural heritage of the Entre-Sambre and Meuse region and, through this, the past of our society and its changes from the eighteenth to the twentieth century.

The museum is an illustration of the technological know-how of village communities, but also a mirror of cultural and social changes that have passed throught the region of Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse for two centuries. Through scientific research, the valorization of a vast collection (tools, furniture, agricultural machinery, posters ...), events, educational animations, it is a whole knowledge and a whole history which are transmitted and share. Anchored in its time, the Ecomuseum of the Viroin also works to enhance current thinking on rurality and the notion of ecological transition.

Rue Eugène Defraire

Upcoming events

Wooden clog making demonstration

Every last sunday of the month, discover the secrets of clogs making ! Demonstration performed with two old machines, "la creuseuse" (the digger) and "la planeuse" (the planer), dating from 1924.

Schedule : every last Sunday of the month at 4 pm (except Sunday December 31st)

Language : FR

Price : price of the entrance of the museum with access to our temporary and permanent exhibitions (we advise you to be at the museum at least one hour before the beginning of the animation if you want to visit).

Visitor information

OPENING TIMES

The Museum is closed 23, 24, 25, 26, 30 & 31/12 and 01/01, 02/01 but is open every other day of the year

Week : 09:00-12:00 & 13:00-17:00

WE + holiday : 10:30-18:00 (01/04 - 05/11)

13:30-17:00 ( 6/11 - 31/03)

Last entrance 1h before close time

ADDRESS

Ecomuseum of the Viroin
Rue Eugène Defraire 63
5670 Treignes
T: +32 (0)60 39 96 24
[email protected]

Tickets (duration of the visit : 1h)

Adult : 4€

Senior : 3€

Student : 3€

Kid (+6) : 2€

Free the first sunday of the month

Our Exhibitions

In a magnificent 16 century Castle farm, the Ecomuseum of the Viroin is a link between past, present and futur. The museum focuses on the social and economical history of the beautiful Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse region. It tells the story of men and women, craftmen, farmers and villagers...

A new exhibition every year

Clogs ! A story...

02/02/2020 - 03/01/2021

At the crossroads between history, crafts and folklore, wooden clogs have worn the feet of our ancestors, peasants, workers and sailors, for centuries. They inspired poets, storytellers, singers and painters such as Brueghel, Millet and Van Gogh… Omnipresent in the popular world of the 19th and early 20th centuries, they bear witness to labor and emancipatory fights.

Today, if they seem to be mainly associated with the folk world, they still wear the craftsman and the gardener in search of forgotten comfort. The clogs and its slipper, well adapted to the foot of its user, is light, solid, protective, ecological, hygienic, dry and warm.

In the clogmaker workshop

Enter in the clogmaker workshop and decorate, in family, according to a traditional method, a small wooden clog to take home.

+ 2 € p.p

Wooden clogmaking demonstration.

Every last Sunday of the month at 4 p.m. (included in the entry price)