A unique site for twice the discovery:
**Museum of French Emigration to Canada**
The Museum of French Emigration to Canada continues the work of the Perche Emigration Museum, a meeting point and place of Franco-Canadian genealogical research set up in 1987.
Created by the Communauté de Communes du Haut-Perche, with the help of the département of the Orne, the Basse-Normandie Region, the French State, the European Union and the Canadian Government, this Museum will help to perpetuate the memory of this founding erea from Autumn 2006.
**Museum of Retail and Trade Brands**
The small stores, stalls and the publicity of the olden days have given us wonderful memories. Slogans, posters, billboards and multicolored objects made up the everyday surroundings of storeholders, who themeslves were often colorful: grocers, dairy workers, butchers, bakers and so on. Pierre Marzoratti, who founded in 1988 of the Musée de L'Epicerie (Grocery Museum) in Lignerolles, not far from Tourouvre, brought together a heritage collection of more than 30,000 items.
The Museum of Retail and Trade Brands, set up by the Communauté de Communes du Haut-Perche, the département of the Orne, the Basse-Normandie Region and the State, with the support of European funds, is the expression of this place of memory where everybody can discover the stores of yesterday - and become aware of the weight wielded by brands in commerce both then and now. |
Les Muséales de Tourouvre
