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Renaissance of Loir-et-Cher’s Maison de la Loire

Renaissance of Loir-et-Cher’s Maison de la Loire

Published on 06 May 2015 - Updated 01 June 2015
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First opened in 1987, Loir-et-Cher’s Maison de la Loire has just been refurbished throughout and reopened its doors in Saint-Dyé-sur-Loire, Chambord historic port, on 16 March 2015. The “Renaissance of the Loire” exhibition leads visitors off in discovery of the Loire, following an hour-long introductory itinerary where nature and culture hold sway in each of the visit’s five rooms or “sequences”.

Scenography pays tribute to a dual renaissance, the river’s and humanity’s, in natural evocation of the era in which Château de Chambord was built. Without the river, people’s lives and concerns in Renaissance times would certainly have been very different.

Making sense via the senses is the governing principle behind this magical event, which, through smell, sight, hearing and touch, invites visitors/spectators to immerse themselves in the history of the river and make it their own, prolonging the unique experience it provides as far as Chambord’s port of Saint-Dyé.

The visit’s first 3 spaces are devoted to Nature – in other words, to the Loire’s transformation over the course of time. The environment in which humankind evolved is presented here: if a story is to be told, the scene must first of all be set…

The remaining 3 spaces provide opportunities to explore Culture, immersing visitors in the spirit of the Renaissance, bringing them face to face with the many splendours of this era of far-reaching change as well as with some of its grimmer aspects. Such toing and froing between Nature and Culture provides visitors with a fully rounded vision of the Loire’s history.