Ecomusee de l’ocre
Ecomusee de l’ocre
4.5
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM, 2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Monday
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Tuesday
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Wednesday
10:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Thursday
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Friday
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Saturday
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Sunday
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
2:00 PM - 6:00 PM
About
Located in a wonderful natural setting, the former ochre factory of Roussillon offers everyone a unique experience. Discover the amazing adventure of ochres and colors from prehistoric times to the present day. Initiation workshops, manufacture of pastels and watercolors, the paintings will no longer hold any secrets for you! A store also provides a wide array of products dedicated to color.
Duration: 1-2 hours
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Pilou_057
Paris, France11 contributions
Aug 2023 • Family
Another very nice visit to this beautiful region of the Luberon. A charming little museum, well preserved and easy to access. We recommend the guided tour which lasts one hour, this is done with exciting and passionate guides. The visit then ends with a small painting workshop ideal for children.
Written 23 August 2023
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Merci pour votre avis et pour votre recommandation. Nous sommes tous heureux de vous faire partager notre passion. Nous organisons aussi des journées d'initiation aux peintures et enduits naturels pour les adultes.
Written 4 November 2023
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Nathalie g
Paris, France9 contributions
Aug 2023
Beautiful cultural reconversion for this former industrial site based on the transformation of ocher. Guided tour recommended with a short introduction to drawing with ochres.
. To do if you are in the region and to complete with a visit to the Bruoux mines.
. To do if you are in the region and to complete with a visit to the Bruoux mines.
Written 14 August 2023
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Merci pour votre avis et pour votre recommandation. L'écomusée de l'ocre est aussi une introduction au monde couleurs.
Written 4 November 2023
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26Jane26
Cardiff, UK1 contribution
May 2022 • Couples
Really enjoyable visit today. Charming, helpful staff and fascinating to understand the process of producing ochre. Lovely setting to walk around. Beautiful location outside the main town.
Written 1 May 2022
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Merci pour votre avis. Le site est effective ment très vaste dans une parcde 5 hectare
A très bientot
Written 7 May 2022
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MargaretEllen1950
Houston, TX325 contributions
Oct 2014 • Couples
We enjoyed this place but you have to have an imagination and be able to interpret the meager signage and what is in front of you. I was traveling with my DH, an engineer, and that helped a lot. If you exclude the shopping for books and art supplies, this place is all about saving and demonstrating the way that ochre was processed from the sand/dirt that was removed from the nearby hills. This plant has long been abandoned but it demonstrates techniques with a low-industrial component. The sand/dirt was brought to the facility, dumped, washed. The colorant separated from the sand and the slurry was gravity piped to settling ponds. Through evaporation the water departed and the colorant remained. It was cut out in large blocks, broken down to a powder and bagged. The entire process took nearly a year due to the evaporation required.
If you put some of this refined colorant material on your hand, it will stain and you want to head immediately to the washroom. In comparison, the unrefined, natural sand/dirt with the colorant will leave your hand just the slightest bit discolored. The difference is in the concentration of the colorant between the natural and refined state.
All utterly fascinating and we thought it was well worth our time.
If you put some of this refined colorant material on your hand, it will stain and you want to head immediately to the washroom. In comparison, the unrefined, natural sand/dirt with the colorant will leave your hand just the slightest bit discolored. The difference is in the concentration of the colorant between the natural and refined state.
All utterly fascinating and we thought it was well worth our time.
Written 18 December 2014
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artsman
Brighton, UK340 contributions
Jun 2012 • Couples
If you are interested in the production of the ochres which make Roussillon so distinctive then come here. You will get a reasonable view of how a former ocre factory worked and a chance to buy paints and pigments, natural and artificial
Written 1 July 2012
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Larry F
Rancho Mirage, CA182 contributions
Sept 2014 • Friends
Is making ochre interesting? Yes, moderately so. Is Roussillon where ochre colors are made? Not any more. That great artists got their color bases here is interesting, but this place is an informercial. We felt we did not get value for our time nor certainly our money.
Written 5 October 2014
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2onatrip
Renton, Washington129 contributions
Sept 2018 • Friends
After reading some of the reviews for the Conservatoire, I've come to the conclusion that a tour with a proper guide is the way to go here. I am happy to say, we had just that: A wonderful guide, Magali, who guided us through the gorgeous Ochre trail as well as an extremely informative tour through the wonderfully restored Mathieu Factory.
Magali took us through the different steps in the processing of the raw material to become pigments and all the uses for them. I would not have appreciated all there is to know of the trail, the Conservatoire or the Mathieu Factory if it had not been for such an excellent guide. I learned so much and Magali could not have been more informative or more pleasant. A wonderful experience. I should add you can reserve a guided visit in English, German, Italian, or Swedish
Magali took us through the different steps in the processing of the raw material to become pigments and all the uses for them. I would not have appreciated all there is to know of the trail, the Conservatoire or the Mathieu Factory if it had not been for such an excellent guide. I learned so much and Magali could not have been more informative or more pleasant. A wonderful experience. I should add you can reserve a guided visit in English, German, Italian, or Swedish
Written 25 September 2018
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Thank you for your recommandation and thank you for Magali.
See you next time in Roussillon.
Written 26 September 2018
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OldEagle48
Williamsburg, VA420 contributions
Jun 2014 • Couples
Ocres production was the lifeblood of Roussillon before the second world war. Today, the production is gone but the effort to preserve (conserve) the techniques and skills use to produce brilliant colors from ocres continue at the Conservatorie. The tour is well laid out and includes much information on our perception of colors as well as shows how colored pigments were produced from ocres sands in the past. The old mill is impressive in its preservation and a tribute to the ingenuity of those who developed ocres production techniques. I enjoyed the factory part and my wife enjoyed the color presentations. Go for the colors or for the engineering aspects of ocres production. The toilettes were very clean as well.
Written 27 June 2014
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Jeff and Evelyn... W
151 contributions
May 2019 • Couples
An interesting 1 1/2 hour tour round this former factory which made ochre pigment from the local sands. Good parking and toilets.
Guided tours make it more interesting. Without the tour there is not enough guidance to fill the time.
Tours are in French, don't know if they can cope in English.
Guided tours make it more interesting. Without the tour there is not enough guidance to fill the time.
Tours are in French, don't know if they can cope in English.
Written 23 May 2019
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Thank you for your opinion. Guide tour are in french but we ave also ausdioguide in english. See you next time.
Written 25 May 2019
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sabine
2 contributions
Oct 2018 • Family
Highly recommended for all ages. Call them to book a 1h30 training to make out of chalk water resin and ochre wonderful paints. In case you have not enough , ask Philippe to show you how to make from oak and iron sulfate the darkest ink ever. Adapted to all ages, this is a vibrant evocation of how colors were obtained from surrounding natural materials, mineral or vegetal . A visit in the place enriched our understanding of the history of this valley greatly and was one of the highlight of our stay in Luberon!!!
Written 26 October 2018
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Thank you for your recommandation.
Written 4 November 2018
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Bonjour , je n'arrive pas a vous contacter par telephone depuis deux jours (j'entends le répondeur en boucle )
Comment le faire pour une visite de groupe que je voudrais obtenir pour 11h le jeudi 15 fevrier ?
Written 6 December 2017
Mathieu B
Roussillon, France
Bonjour,
Veuillez nous excuser, mais nous étions fermés exceptionnellement pour l'inventaire général. Le Conservatoire en hiver et ouverts au public de 14h à 17h 7 jours sur 7, mais vous pouvez joindre Ludivine de 9h à 13h et de 14h à 17h du lundi au vendredi pour les réservations au 04 90 05 66 69
Written 7 December 2017
winterman43
Le Puy-en-Velay, France
Bonjour, je suis un futur etudiant, suite a la visite avec Cyr, j'aimerais connaître sa formation artistique/technique plus en details car je m'interesse à l'artisanat. Y a-t-il un moyen de prendre contact ?
La visite date du 29 octobre 2017.
Merci !
Written 29 October 2017
Mathieu B
Roussillon, France
Bonjour. Vous pouvez demander le contact de Cyr directement en appelant le standard d'ôkhra - Conservatoire des ocres et de la couleur. Merci
Written 30 October 2017
Pourquoi avec 155 avis le conservatoire des ocres et de la couleur est toujours là 4e chose à voir à Roussillon et non la 2e?
Written 6 July 2017
Mathieu je n'ai pas la réponse à votre question... Je suis allée au conservatoire au cours d'une journée de passage à Roussillon... Je ne peux pas parler de ce que je ne connais pas (stages...) Une journée c'est trop court pour profiter des enseignements de ce Conservatoire... Il faut peut-être le faire connaître mieux !
Written 7 July 2017
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