Museums

Joseph-Vaylet Museum

Actually the museum is closed. Opening in July and August

This traditional museum, settled in the St John the Baptist's old church, a gothic church of the end of the XVth century, was created by Joseph Vaylet (1894-1982), a " majoral" of the " Félibrige" (Provencal poetic association), who along his life gathered collections and created an association to continue his work.

cloth for widow

christening robe

bedside font

feeding Virgin

washerwoman

On the first floor, it showed a collection of bedside fonts, wardrobes, pieces of poterry and tools of old trades. On ground floor, it showed several display cabinets (weapons, music instruments, religious objects, paleontology, mineralogy, pieces of pewter, etc...) as the reconstruction of a Rouergue's inside of XIXth century

Joseph Vaylet's stela
on Foiral

Actually the museum is closed. Opening in July and August

This museum is settled in the building of the ancient prisons built in 1838. Like this, visitors could understand the life of prisoners in XIXt century

when dungeons and prison wards were replaced with single cells.

The museum of traditional dresses is closed long time ago

sommaire

Opening on demand

Informations: 05 65 48 09 63

The chapel shelters a little religious art museum, fruit of the works of the members of the Penitents Chapel Safeguard Association to restore and be revived that building of the Espalion's patrimony.

Chapel is dedicated to the Christ's Circumcision, a scene showed on the painting of the altar. Two other paintings, on both sides of the altar, are also devoted to the Christ's childhood with Nativity and Magi Adoration.