Things to do in Aude, Occitanie: The Best Museums

Au coeur d'un parc de plus de 2 hectares, appelé aujourd'hui "parc des essars", du nom de la dernière propriétaire, la maison de maître du 18e siècle a été restaurée afin de devenir un espace entièrement dédié aux arts visuels et à la culture. Tout au long de l'année, les Essar[t]s vous proposent des expositions de photos, peintures, sculptures, gravures mais aussi de la vidéo ou des arts numériques... Les essar[t]s offrent également la possibilité de médiations lors de visites de classes ou de groupes, mais aussi de créations avec ses ateliers destinés aux artistes. Enfin, le K[fé] culturel vous attend dans son espace de détente où vous pourrez consulter librement plus de 200 ouvrages et magazines d'art et de culture.

Since 2015, the Cérès Franco Collection has been housed in an exceptional setting: the former wine cooperative cellar of Montolieu. Resolutely international, the Cérès Franco Collection brings together around 2,000 works from the 20th and 21th centuries, some of which are presented each year on a different theme. Brazilian and European naivety, South American popular art, art brut, self-taught, singular, artists from the CoBra movement or the New Figuration, the provenance of the works reflects an eclectic and independent taste for an art situated on the fringes of the major artistic currents. This collection reflects, with a rare coherence, the gaze of an audacious and demanding collector who has turned to intense works. Each year, therefore, a temporary exhibition, to be held from April to November, is organised with a guest curator who looks at this collection while engaging in a dialogue with other institutions or collections.

An art gallery in the Maison de Maitre in the Corbieres, a historical building building constructed as a fortress and locally known as 'petit chateau' exhibits contemporary artists of an international standing, 6 different exhibitions yearly.

Scalbert uses both variants, but prefers real movement. Against often abstract backgrounds, sometimes evoking the dancing signs of Paul Klee, more often an uncertain universe of materialists, he inserts ingenious small mechanical elements: rods, pulleys, a bicycle chain, gears of all types, even including the same square wheel dear to the watches of Maurice Lacroix. A piece of broomstick crosses a canvas, another gives the impression of small rollers painting there and then glistening colours on its surface, elsewhere the movement of vertical wooden rods reveal the face of Serge Gainsbourg. The melancholy atmosphere of a small charcoal painting is suddenly illuminated by the windows of skyscrapers being touched by a shimmering moon that a hypothetical haze masks temporarily. So many scenes that provoke emotion, that are set in motion and produce sound when the visitor passes, thanks to proximity sensors integrated in the mechanism.

A 30 minutes au nord de Carcassonne (Aude), Venez decouvrir la Magie du Papier! Dans le dernier moulin a papier en activite du Languedoc. Chaque jour, des feuilles de papier sortent de l'atelier de fabrication, papier a base de chiffons, crottin d'elephant, rafles de raisins, posidonie ... L'atelier produit ainsi de nombreux articles de correspondance et attirent graveurs, peintres, typographes, editeurs... Creation a la demande. Visite commentee (1 heure) sur l'histoire du papier et sa fabrication, les machines anciennes (piles hollandaises, meuleton) et les moteurs hydrauliques (roue a augets, turbine). Demonstration de fabrication de papier a la forme a main. Ateliers Decouverte pour tous : Apres la visite, initiation a la fabrication, dans l'atelier, enfants et adultes peuvent realiser a la forme a main leurs feuilles de papier filigranees qu'ils emportent apres la seance. Atelier d'impression en monotype (Atelier Traces) Boutique : cartes de correspondance, faire-part, livre d'or, papier aquarelle, gravure...