Maurice Pezet Museum

  • Museum
  • Sciences and technology
  • Arts and culture
  • World of rural agricultural
  • Archeological
  • Local history
5100A rue de la Vieille Église, 13810 Eygalières
The Maurice Pezet Museum is a local history museum located in the Chapelle des Pénitents Blancs, in the old village of Eygalières.
The Musée Maurice Pezet, named after its founder, is a museum of local history and ethnography that has been open to the public since 1967.
It is managed and run by volunteers from the association ‘Les Amis du Vieil Eygalières’, which was responsible for restoring the 16th-century Chapelle des Pénitents Blanc, which houses the museum.

Visitors can discover
- a collection of Palaeolithic, Neolithic (from local excavations), Iron Age and Gallo-Roman artefacts,
- an exhibition of farming tools, accompanied by old photos, documents and fossils,
- and hand-written panels that tell the story of Eygalières from its origins to the present day.

Opening hours: opening organised by ‘Les Amis du Vieil Eygalières’ on Sunday afternoons and public holidays from March to November.
Also open during the European Heritage Days.
Free admission. Guided tours on request.
The Musée Maurice Pezet, named after its founder, is a museum of local history and ethnography that has been open to the public since 1967.
It is managed and run by volunteers from the association ‘Les Amis du Vieil Eygalières’, which was responsible for restoring the 16th-century Chapelle des Pénitents Blanc, which houses the museum.

Visitors can discover
- a collection of Palaeolithic, Neolithic (from local excavations), Iron Age and Gallo-Roman artefacts,
- an exhibition of farming...

Services

Services

Openings

Openings

Each sunday from 1 March 2025 until 30 November 2025
Open on Sundays and public holidays
March - April: 2pm to 6pm
May - June: 2.30pm to 6.30pm
July - August: 3pm to 7pm
September: 2.30pm to 6.30pm
October: 2pm to 6.30pm
November: 1:30pm to 5:30pm

Exceptionally open during the European Heritage Days

Location

Location

Maurice Pezet Museum
5100A rue de la Vieille Église, 13810 Eygalières

Spoken languages

Spoken languages
  • French

Environment

Environment
  • Town location
Updated on 19 September 2024 at 09:56
by Régie Tourisme de la CC Vallée Des Baux-Alpilles
(Offer identifier : 5538197)