The new geological and ethnological museum of La Roque d'Antheron was unaugurated in December 2007.
This glass and steel modern museum offers to its guests a geological “dive” and an ethnographical discovery.
It hosts an important collection that helps trace 300 million years of geological history of Provence: fossils, moldings, reconstitutions...

Provence is the richest geological area of Europe. It preserved extraordinary testimonies of the 20 million centuries when it lived under the seas, keeping extraordinary testimonies. Its history opens in this domain a full size dictionnary for everyone's knowledge...
Geology reveals inombrables universes, allowing to understand the treasures of our under soil, the technical problems encountered when building, the stakes of water preservation...
On the first floor, two rooms are dedicated to the introduction to Kuna Indians from Panama, native people which history crossed by chance the history of the Valdesian from Durance. One can admire the Molas, masterpiece of their artistic knowledge.

The Mola is a piece of cloth that is sawn on the corsage of the amerindians Kuna women. It reconstruct the drawings that amerindians draw on their bodies. Those drawings were a mean of communication. The Mola is made of successive layers of cloth of different colors.
The second collection concerns the way of life of the Cuna Indians of Panama, and their encounter with the Waldensians of Provence. A magnificient collection of Molas can be admired, testimony of their artistic knowledge.
The mola is a cotton fabric which is sewn onto the blouse of the Cuna Indians. It reconstitutes the drawings the Amerindians used for body painting. The mola is composed of successive layers of fabrics of different colours. This milfoils “is carved”, then finely sawn, in order to let the colour of subjacent fabrics appear and compose the final drawing. A mola requires several hundred working hours; only females complete this meticulous work being as the cuna civilization is a matriarchal one.


> Opening time:
- Winter season :
Saturday : from 2:30 pm to 5:30 pm
Sunday from 10 am to 12 pm and from 2:30 to 5:30 pm.
- Summer season (july 1st to august 31): everyday from from 3 to 7 pm.


> Rates:
4€ (2€ for groups) - 8,50 € for the "passeport" (access to the Silvacane abbay)
+ 2€ for guided visit
Free for children under 12


> Information : tel - (0)4 42 50 70 74

> NEW :
Click here > Museum Website .


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