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Collections
and créations
Between historic
and unusual museums, arts and crafts, the Val deSioule and theVal
d'Allier offer many marvels during your peregrinations.
BAYET
Fleurs séchées (dried flowers)
Jean-François Chabrier
Presentation of a vault made with
dried flowers.
Sale at the property.
Groups welcome
Bompré
Tél.04.70.45.97.94
BELLENAVES
Car museum 
Thematic exhibition
Regular new collections. Free or
guided visits.
Tél. 04.70.58.39.73 or 04 70 58 39 75 - Fax.
04.7058.37.59
Mail : museebellenaves@wanadoo.fr
CHANTELLE
Benedictines’new society of manufacturing
Sale of toiletries, perfumes, beauty cares
14, rue Anne de Beaujeu -
Tél./Fax.04.7056.62.69
CHAREIL-CINTRAT
Atelier de la petite source
Trainings, visit and picture sales
Free visit of the exhibition on
appointment.
Christine Lacroix-Guillot
Tel. 04 70 56 92 06
CHARROUX
Fil de verre
Ceramics, church-windows,
embroidery
Handicapped welcoming
Grande rue - Tél.04.70.98.73 ou 04.7041.94.60
ou 04.73.63.50.77
Musée de Charroux et de son canton
Rue de la Poulaillerie
Tél. 04.70.56.87.71
La Savonnerie (Soap factory)
Groups on booking
Tour du Guet
Tél.04.70.56.85.57
Au bois de Charroux
Jean-Paul Loubat
Wood designer
Tour de Guet
Tél. 04.70.56.87.14
Maison des Horloges
Clocks exhibition, mechanisme (building
and church-tower), "comtoises" clocks, collection
of clock weight (XVI° till XIX°
century)
Rue des Horloges
Tel. 04 70 56 87 39
Atelier Van Schirin
Graphic art, illumination
Rue Mornat
Tel. : 06.11.49.54.65
Louis Tellier
Neo-classic painter (Akoun)
Cour de l'Eglise
Tel. 04.70.56.73.67
Marcel Martel
Glass engraver
5 rue Saint-Antoine - Tél.
04.70.56.83.59
EBREUIL
Museum
of the blacksmith's shop
Free
visit on booking
18
route de Vicq
Tel.
04.70.90.75.33 (lunch time)
Blowtorch
art
Creation
of pearls (Murano), pendants
Show
and visit on booking
Tel.
04.70.90.73.42 or 06.80.25.28.78
Conservatoire
of the Lime
Trainings
on several days
Tel.
04.70.90.76.10
ECHASSIERES
Wolframines
Exhibition
of minerals, shows
Tel.
04.70.90.44.99 or 04.70.90.78.30
Fax
: 04.70.90.78.24
Mail
: smat3@wanadoo.fr
ETROUSSAT
Lili Création
Glass-painting, church-window, mirors.
Exhibition, sale
Free visit
Visit of the workshop on booking
Héléne Bazanté
- La Font Saint-Georges
Tél. 04.70.56.76.04
GANNAT
Maison de l'artisanat
Permanent exhibition/sale
Handicapped welcoming and groups
on booking
Tél :.04.70.90.31.79
Municipal museum Yves Machelon
Carolingian Gospel book (IXth century),
sacred art, rhino skeleton, horse-drawn cars, cars.
Open 1st of April till 31st
of October every day except tuesday
Place Rantian
Tél.04.70.90.23.78
Rhinopolis (see text)
JENZAT
Maison du Luthier
Musée de la vielle (stringed instrument)
Open : week-end in June and September
and every day except on monday and tuesday in July and August.
Group on booking.
rue des Luthiers - Tél .04.70.56.81.78
LALIZOLLE
Elides Picandet
Artist
Tel. : 04.70.90.41.67
MONETAY SUR ALLIER
Marionnettes expo Joël Guichard
Visit, exhibition and shows
Les Brouillards
Tél : .04.70.42.09.25
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Montaigu Le Blin
Musée
rural Montacutain
Geology,
archaeology and palaeontology concerning Montaigu and its area.
Local history.
Tel.
04 70 43 71 20 or 04 70 47 45 86
NAVES
Continuous
exhibition of photos,
patrimony
of Naves, history..
Free
entry - Visit on booking
14
route de Veauce
Tel.
: 04.70.58.31.84
SAINT
GERMAIN DE SALLES
Kikkert horticulture 
Lis farming
Booking
for groups
7, chemin de la Côte
Tél./ Fax.04.70.56.81.85
SAINT
DIDIER LA FORET
Arts
and decoration
Lamp-shade
and light factory
Shop
9
rue de l'Andelot
Tél.
04.70.41.40.12 - Fax 04.70.41.42.57
St. Gérand Le Puy
James
Joyces Museum.
Written
work, photos, video of
this Irish writer who stayed few years in St. Gérand.
Tel.
04 70 99 78 50 (Town hall).
Library
"Anna Livia Plurabelle"
Endowing
with "Joyce" funds
Tourist
Office : 04 70 47 45 86
SAINT
POURCAIN SUR SIOULE
Lithography Museum
Exhibitions, work shop, training;
Programme available
in the Tourist Office
Tél. 04.70.45.32.73
Palace of miniature
Reconstitution of a Bourbon village.
Model of 15m long, with 1350
figures on scale of 1/87th..
Place Charles-de-Gaulle
Tél.04.70.45.99.01
Musée de la vigne et du terroir (Wine and Land
Museum)
Tools, collection of swing
ploughs, traditional dresses, room dedicated to the history of the city.
Cours des Bénédictins
Tél.04.70.45.62.07. ou 04.70.45.32.73
SAULCET
Cristallerie des Quatre Vents
Show room
Glassworker at work,
church-windows
1, rue de Douzy
Tél. : 04.70.45.60.77
(See text)
Sanssat
Dried
flowers work shop
Claudine
Guibert
Le
Verger
Tel.
04 70 43 52 53.
TAXAT SENAT
La
Boule
Monique et Jean-Paul Loubat
Woodwork - Visit
on booking
Tél .04.70.56.66.06
VALIGNAT
Musée de la Source
Southern-Bourbon conservatorium
of the country-life during the last centuries. Tools, harnessing and farming
vehicles, walnut oil factory, classroom, spring inside of the Museum.
Le Bourg
Tél./Fax.04.70.58.33.44
VARENNES SUR ALLIER
Boutique de l'artisanat
Specialized
artists working china, wood or metal..
16,
rue Claude Labonde
Tel. :
06 11 43 19 63
VERNEUIL
EN BOURBONNAIS
Washing and Ironing Museum
20 centuries of history
Le Bourg
Tél. : 04.70.45.91.53 - Fax. 04.70.45.47 34
Catherine Sarazin pottery's
Leisure training
Chaumejean - Tél/Fax. 04.70.45.53.92
VOUSSAC
Copperware trade
(See text)
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GLASS-BLOWER
IN THE « QUATRE-VENTS »
How can one think of that a ball of « calcin »
(miscellany of sand and lead) in fusion can become a magnificent crystal
vase ? To understand this, one must visit the “Cristallerie des Quatre
Vents” in Saulcet to admire the skills of the glass-blower Hilario
Trindade, producing decanters, stairballs, whisky glasses,
paper-holders… Real magic than this art to “pick” with a long hollow
stick the pasta in fusion, blow in the stick to obtain a ball (the “poste”)
and round it off in the maul (instrument in hollow wood), then in a
newspaper, work on it on a wooden plank and shape the plan by
experienced rotating and balancing movements. These are only the first
steps for the manufacturing of glass (or crystal, more diaphanous and
heavier due to the lead). It is a hundred times more interesting to look
at than to read, especially when, in the workplace, Sylvie Trindade,
comments from A to Z her husband’s goldsmith gestures (only groups on
request). Hilario Trindade, just like his father, Vittorino, who
transmitted his knowledge, does not fear to work in front of the public.
Even better, he started in 2001 to exercise on stained-glass windows and
organizes now successfully, in low season, trainings « « vitrail
traditionnel » (8 hours/day for 5 days !).
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COPPERWARE, METAL POTTERY
From ambulance driver to copperware craftsman (artisan manufacturing
tools and objects in copper), there is huge gap that, François Lamy, in
Voussac, crossed easily. Living since the years 70 in the “Bourbonnais”,
he meets, when he was 25, a fervent who shows him the ropes of this
craft. That’s why he took a sabbatical year and learns in the workplace
of this “master”.
 A few years later, thanks to background information,
he discovers that copperware trade is one of the decorative art streams
of which the millennium know-how, nevertheless long time forgotten, was relaunched and renewed at the beginning of the XXth century. After
having for a long time tasted this metal pottery, he now mixes bronze,
steel and copper in his modern sculptures designed for home and
exterior. He became “metal-worker organizer”, so he says, (he holds a
diploma of State presenter) and often intervenes in schools or during
craft trades. He privileges the “magic of the gesture” rather than the
object in itself, considered “almost as an accessory” and presents
himself as a free artist working mostly on demand, as passes time. He
can also be a “public man”, (he participates at the “Centre des metiers
d’art de Souvigny) and his forge is open for people wanting to learn
steel manufacturing.
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