Open Air Museum of ancient traditional houses
An Open Air Museum unique in France
You will be suduced by this beautiful site where you can discover thirty authentic and traditional houses of Franche-Comté (XVII - XVIII centuries), gardens and animals. The museum invites you to come visit for a fun-filled day including guided visits and tastings of our regional specialties.
The purpose of the open air Museum of Comté houses is to preserve and develop Franche-Comté's rural heritage in all its diversity: architecture, furniture, farm machinery, botany (medicinal and aromatic plants, kitchen gardens, plants for dyeing and textiles), activity and folklore.
This outdoor ever growing museum depicts the evolution of local housing, with ancient farms and rural houses, like the "Tuyé" farm, used for the smoking and conservation of meat. All the houses were dismantled in their original village, and brought to the site of the museum to be re-built there, with their original landscape and environment. They are all completely furnished and give a real view of what our ancestors living conditions were.