Musée du marbre et Muséum du Salut (Marble and Local History)
Bagnères-de-Bigorre | 65
The Marble Museum located in the former Salut Baths exhibits an historic gallery of renovated marble baths and showers. The museum exists thanks to the efforts of Jacques Dubarry de Lassale, a passionate collector who put together a superb collection of European marbles, 320 examples amongst which a hundred or so can be found in the Pyrenean quarries (Spanish Basque Country and the Languedoc).
Both the Spanish and the French slopes of the Pyrenees mountain chain seem to have been specially designed to yield a vast and varied treasure trove for the marble-loving collector as this region of France is particularly rich in the stone. From the Mediterranean coast to the Atlantic ocean, there is an uninterrupted succession of open quarries perched high on the mountain summits and deep in the many valleys that descend towards the Garonne plain. M.CALVI 1960
The Museum’s collections, Musée de France includes a giant model of Haute Bigorre and a place where visitors can observe the bat roost in the rafters of the building that is linked to an infra-red camera.
Musée du marbre et Muséum du Salut (Marble and Local History)
Vallon de Salut-rue Jean Rösch
65200 Bagnères-de-Bigorre 06 33 79 60 45
Rates
- Adult : €4
- Reduced price : €3
- Children ans students : free
- Educational activities for play groups : €2/child
Opening times
From January to April and from September to December (Outside school holidays A,B and C) :
- Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 2:30pm-5:30pm
February and spring School holidays (Zones A, B and C) :
- Wednesday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday from 2:30pm-5:30pm
May and June (Outside school holidays A,B and C) :
- Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from 2:30pm-6pm
July and August :
- Wednesday, Tuesday, Saturday and Sunday : 2:30pm – 6pm
- Closed the 15 August
Christmas Holidays :
- Wednesday, Tuesday, Friday and Saturday from 2:30pm-5:30pm
- Closed the 25 December and 1 January
Access
- Parking nearby
- Disabled access available