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Please contact us to get programme information: Temporary exhibitions, events, walks, etc.
Every year, we take groups (bookings only) for guided tours and demonstrations of the making of salt in the salt workers’ workshop.
For school groups, we also provide booklets or educational leaflets according to class levels.
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Contact:
Maison de la Baie du Mont-Saint-Michel (Bay Centre)
Relais de Vains Saint-Léonard
Route du Grouin du Sud
50300 VAINS
Tel: 02.33.89.06.06
Fax: 02.33.89.06.07
E-mail: musee.vains-saint-leonard@cg50.fr
patrimoine.manche.fr
Opening hours:
School holidays, April and May, daily from 2.00 p.m. to 6.00 p.m.
June and September, daily from 10.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m.
July and August, daily from 10.00 a.m. to 7.00 p.m.
Open all year round for groups.
Individual prices: adult €4, child €1.60
Groups, please contact us for prices.
to know some more
Internet site
Article of press of the 10/07/2005 Maison de la Baie du Mont-Saint-Michel (Bay Centre)
Relais Vains-Saint-Léonard
Life in the Bay Interpretation Centre
The “Life in the Bay” permanent exhibition shows the specific features of a marine and estuary environment subjected to tides twice a day and the different landscapes and sensitive areas that are linked to it.
On a mural, you can follow a year in the life of many animals and see the development of the Bay over the seasons, thanks to information on weather, events and man’s activities, which are all intimately linked to great shifts in the Bay.
Economic and leisure activities are presented: agriculture in the polders, sheep farming on salt-meadows, shellfish farming, tourist industry at Mont-Saint-Michel, hunting, Etc. Two “historic” human activities are highlighted. These are “seashore fishing” which is still done today in the Bay, and “the making of Avranches igniferous salt”, gone for over a century.
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