Origin and history

The Maison du sabotier de La Haye-de-Routot is an ethnographic museum located in a traditional cottage in Roumois. This place showcases a varied collection of hooves, ranging from simple hoops to specialized boots for cressonniers, illustrating the diversity of uses by region and trade.

The museum also presents the techniques and know-how of the sabotiers, a craftsmanship historically rooted in rural areas. The cottage itself, typical of local architecture, offers an authentic setting to discover this aspect of Norman material and intangible heritage. No specific date of construction or opening of the museum is mentioned in the available sources.

Located in the department of Eure, Normandy, this museum is part of a process of preserving popular traditions. The hoofs, once indispensable for daily life and agricultural work, are exposed to them as witnesses to a lifestyle that is now gone or transformed. The Roumois, a natural region where The Hague-de-Routot is located, was particularly famous for its wood craftsmen.

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