The Museon Arlaten in Arles
The Museon Arlaten in Arles is the departmental Museum of ethnography, installed in the Laval-Castellane hotel of XV century, created in 1896 by Frederic Mistral, a famous regionalist writer, presents costumes, furniture, work tools, objects of worship and of superstition. This museum illustrates the life of people living in Provence in the XIX century...
This museum concentrates on the folk traditions of Arles and the surrounding area. Built around a courtyard which contains some remains of the Roman forum, it has tableaux of Arlesian life and exhibits of folk artifacts connected with Arles and the surrounding area, pictures - mainly of ladies in the distinctive local costume…
The Museon Arlaten is temporarily closed for renovation. It will reopen in 2013!
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