The Museum's secrets

Museum recipes

The Museum's animators reveal a few recipes for eating wild plants.

If you're lucky enough to have a garden, chances are you have at least one of these three plants. Here are three easy recipes for filling up on minerals. Bon appétit!

Activities at home

The museum mobilizes its talents and offers you a few ideas for activities.

Rediscover simple pleasures and share special moments with your children.

Spring cleaning

It's time to start spring cleaning with natural, economical and eco-friendly products.

• Sodium percarbonate
• Flake soap and blanc de Meudon
• Beeswax
• Baking soda

Plant secrets

You want to know everything there is to know about these plants: Sylvie anemone, lamier pourpre, coltsfoot, wild garlic, daffodil, amadouvier, oxalis, petite pervenche. At last, their secrets are revealed!

• Sylvie Anemone or Wood Anemone
• Purple Dead Nettle
• Coltsfoot
• Bear's garlic
• Oxalis
• The little periwinkle
• The daffodil
• L'amadouvier

Illustrator: Thomas Bernardy
Author: François-Xavier Fuchs, mountain guide

Know-how

Spruce clapboard cladding

A number of building-related skills are disappearing, from spruce shingles to lime rendering and whitewash. There are few craftsmen who master these techniques, and they are not always able to pass on their know-how.