Culture in Concarneau

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Museums in Concarneau

The Museum of Fishing

• Presentation
• The Museum of Fishing in Concarneau
• History of the museum
• The permanent collections
• The spaces of visit
• The Floating Museum
• Maritime Aquariums
• Models

Exhibitions:
• On the 40 years of the Museum of Fishing, in may and june
• Sailors of Finistere until mai !

Collections

Rich and diversified collections

In the big tradition of the maritime museums, the Museum of the fishing present a rich collection of mockups.

The collections of the Museum of the fishing constituted in the course of time, sometimes at random meetings and donations today even. They count number of unusual, rare or precious details today which are so many witnesses of the life aboard boats, but also in ports.

Objects witnesses of the life of the sailors: some examples

During all first half of the XX-th century, the fishermen of tuna, who had no rubber boots, used a model of hoofs - boots which one can see to the Museum: it is about real hoofs of wood heightened by leather: very heavy objects, which did not facilitate the work of the sailors!

The Museum also presents a real doris. These small boats were of use to the fishing in the cod. They were embarked aboard fishing ships, which put them in the water every morning for a long day of fishing. The doris of the Museum, who testifies of the life of these sailors, is one of the last vestiges of this particularly dangerous fishing.

Rare details

The Museum possesses a specimen of coelacanth: this fish belongs to a sort which one considered disappeared until in 1938 an African fisherman returns one, living well, in his nets. The sort little evolved since 350 million years, what does coelacanths of real alive fossils: their study allowed to demonstrate that they are a link between fishes and amphibians. The coelacanth of the Museum was fished by 150 metres of bottom one night of March, 1969 to Dzahadjou in Grande Comore. It is exposed for more than thirty years in its bath of formalin.

The Neptune François is the very first French collection of sea charts. Published in 1691, it takes the name of Neptune, in reference to the collections of ground cards, which honour the god Atlas. The statements had begun under Colbert, and were finished 30 years later: the Neptune François covers in 28 cards, the coasts of Norway in the Strait of Gibraltar. After restoration, it reinstated at the end of March the collections of the Museum.

Some unusual objects

The smallest tuna boat of the world is to the Museum of the fishing! It is about a model 15 millimeters long for 3 wide. Offered to the Museum the year of its creation in 1961, it was realized by a citizen, wooden and hairs of cat.

The collections of the Museum conceal many treasures, which one discovers throughout the visit: a Japanese bigorneau serving as foghorn, a buoy - breeches, a huge spider of Japan or another an iron of harpoon twisted by a sperm whale...

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