MUSEUM
Industrial museum PASS
Place du Postel 84400 APT - tel. 04 90 74 95 30 - fax 04 90 04 52 48 - musee@apt.fr
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.
This new 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.
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