Industrial museum
This museum's collections illustrate the Pays d’Apt's various economic activities including faience, candied fruit and ochre.
The museum charts the area's economic development from traditional small-scale production to the Industrial Age, through recessions and booms, and shows how methods and equipment have evolved through the ages.
Ceramics
- Exhibition of 250 faience pieces from Apt and Castellet, including incense-burners, ewers, plates, dishes, soup tureens, fonts, and teapots. The collection illustrates, in chronological order, the three main stages of the local Faience industry: the beginnings in the 17th century, the industrial revolution in the 19th and the decline of the crafts industry in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Reconstruction of a ceramic potter’s workshop
- Section for architectural ceramics: roof tiles, bricks and floor tiles
Ochre
- Reconstruction of an ochre refining scene
- Machining equipment
- Panels and models describing the extraction, processing and sale of pigments
Preserved fruits
- Exhibition of a collection of labels and packaging used for preserved fruits
- Machinery and tools used in confectionery
- Old factory equipment, etc.
Place du Postel 84400 APT - tel. 04 90 74 95 30 - fax 04 90 04 52 48 -
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From oct. to may : monday to saturday (except tuesday and bank holidays) 10.00 AM to 12.00 AM and 2.00 PM to 5.30 PM
From june to end of sept. : monday to saturday (except tuesday and bank holidays) 10.00 AM to 12.00 AM and 3.00 PM to 6.30 PM. Sundays 3.00 PM to 7.00 PM.
Entrance: 4€. Groups, teenagers, Pass: 2€. Free for childs under 16.
