Le patrimoine muséal de Trigance

The Musée des Voûtes – Patrimoine Trigançois

• Address: rue de l'Horloge, 83840 Trigance, in the heart of the village (listing from the Office de tourisme Lacs et Gorges du Verdon).
• Presented by the Office de tourisme as an 'exhibition of photos of Trigance's heritage in the heart of the village'.
• Free access, according to this same official listing.
• Restored in 2019 on the initiative of the Association de Sauvegarde du Patrimoine de Trigance: a participatory work project and the addition of photographic documents in the museum; an inauguration followed, on 12 October 2019 (the 'Community Life' page of the Trigance town hall).

In front of the museum: the bust of Julien Sibour Rouvier

• A bust is installed in front of the Musée des Voûtes; the town hall presents it as the sculptor's self-portrait (the 'Trigance Through Culture' page).
• Julien Sibour Rouvier was born on 17 January 1862 in Trigance and died there on 15 April 1901, at the age of 39.
• Originally a farmer, he trained himself as a stonecutter; several of his works are preserved in the village, including a statue of Marianne and a stone cross (originally on the chapelle Saint-Roch, moved in June 2021 to the left of the entrance of the église Saint-Michel).
• His bust was installed in front of the museum in August 2021; his work is discussed in the magazine Verdons (no. 63), under the title 'Celebration of Stone'.

The agricultural and craft-heritage museum of La Sagne

• Established since 2005 at the farm of La Sagne, about 2 km from the village of Trigance (the 'Art & Heritage' page of the Trigance town hall).
• Organised in two parts: outdoors and under a barn shelter, period farm equipment; indoors, a space devoted to everyday-life crafts, with objects and explanatory panels on woodwork, weaving/basketry, livestock herding and poultry.
• The Office de tourisme Lacs et Gorges du Verdon lists it under two complementary entries: 'Museum of the Agricultural Heritage of La Sagne' (open-air farm equipment) and 'Museum of Tradition and Craftsmanship of La Sagne' (traditional trades: basketry, wheat, cheese, honey, wool, wood, ironwork), housed in the Atelier Galerie de la Sagne.
• Free access, according to both official listings.

The association that keeps this heritage alive

• The Association de Sauvegarde du Patrimoine de Trigance has existed since 1988; it brings together between 80 and 100 members, who meet every year in August.
• Contact given by the town hall: [email protected], or by post to the Trigance town hall, 6 place Saint-Michel, 83840 Trigance.
• Besides the Musée des Voûtes, it has carried out the renovation of the chapelle Notre-Dame de Saint-Julien (2014, interior frescoes via a participatory work project), the restoration of the heritage-listed painting by Sébastien Bourdon (2016, by an accredited restorer) and the interior restoration of the chapelle Saint-Roch (2018, beam painting via a participatory work project).
• It also organises guided tours of the village and heritage days.

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