This self-serving museum is owned by Luxury Lavender growers / sellers promoting their products…read more They go to great lengths to explain how industrial growers have cheapened their luxury products. There is an interesting education film about lavender production, if you can get see through their sales propaganda. Inside their are stills/distillery bins from the last 4 centuries, from the owners private collection to use this as a showcase. As you leave, you will be hit up by multiple sales people hawking their overpriced, luxury lavender products. What a total rip off.

If you in Provence to explore lavender routes and festivals, do not miss this little museum…read more A little bit of history, a little bit of shopping, a little bit on craft of lavender oil production... And a lot of most wonderful smells of lavenders of all kinds to overwhelm your senses. Everything lavender, from small sachets to oils, to soaps, to books, pictures, prints and videos, can be found here. Tour is pretty cool, too.

Make a point of going to this museum to see the Cezanne…read morepaintings. There is usually a temporary exhibition of other artists.

We enjoyed the collection here and the layout of the museum. We are not art connoisseurs so I…read morecannot attest to the quality of the works, but we enjoyed both the museum itself and the work in the chapel. In fact, the architectural elements in the chapel were beautiful, and I was allowed to very carefully take a photo of only the ceiling! We were amused to see that the upcoming visiting exhibition is from our own area of the world and belongs to someone we had met on occasion.

The real life upstairs studio of Paul Cezanne set in the hilly suburban outskirts of the town of…read moreAix-en-Provence. Massive windows allowing great light into the studio with period pieces and instruments used by the artist for his work. One can imaging the light cast upon the pieces which can be found in many of his works especially his still life pieces. The building houses a gift shop and is surrounded by a garden. Beware, besides mosquitos ... the studio is set in a hilly residential area with no street parking. Parking is several blocks away - uphill or down (with a subsequent corresponding descent or ascent upon the return!).

Museum tour was started with a short video of his life and then continued to Cezanne's studio. The…read morestudio is set-up as Cezanne may have left it. You will see his wooden model and fruit that may have been used to inspire his work. Gift shop to follow. I bought a pencil : ) Thought provoking experience. All pay homage to the mountain!

From the owner: Au sein du Domaine de la Citadelle - Plus de 1200 tire-bouchons du 17ème à nos jours sont exposés…read moredont certaines pièces uniques - Ouvert au public depuis 1993 Une collection privée de plus de mille deux cent pièces du monde entier, du 17ème à nos jours. Les premiers tire-bouchons sont apparus vers le milieu du 17ème siècle. Il s'agit sans doute d'une invention anglaise. On pense généralement que l'idée vient de la mèche vrillée du tire-bourre (ou tire-balle) fournie avec les armes à feu. C'est à cette époque effectivement que les anglais ont commencé à élever leurs vins en bouteilles plutôt qu'en barriques. Avant cela, les régions vinicoles avaient pour pratique de garder le vin en fût et de le tirer en pichets.Avec l'ère industrielle, la forme des bouteilles en verre change : on passe ainsi de la forme dite " en bulbe d'oignon " à la forme cylindrique que nous connaissons aujourd'hui, ce qui permet de les stocker plus facilement.Dans le même temps, le col de la bouteille étant plus étroit, il faut fabriquer des bouchons aux côtés parallèles que l'on compresse avant de les insérer dans la bouteille pour assurer une parfaite étanchéité. Un extracteur de bouchons ou " tire-bouchon " est donc devenu indispensable.