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Origin and history

The Poiré Museum is located in Barenton, in an old torchi farmhouse and woodpan, typical of Norman rural architecture. This site, labeled Musée de France, is dedicated to the preservation of know-how related to the production of cider and Calvados, from the cultivation of apple trees and pear trees to distillation. The tools on display, such as scouring fruit or the long-knit press, date back centuries and illustrate the traditional techniques still rooted in Norman bocage.

The museum highlights local and regional history through the agro-food and botanical prism. It traces the evolution of high-stem pear orchards, characteristic of the bocager landscapes, and explains the processes of transforming fruit into alcoholic beverages. The museum's cellar, with its futailles, and the tools displayed on a ground of clay, offer an immersion in the Normandy rural heritage, where the production of pears and cider played a major economic and cultural role.

Located in the department of the English Channel, in Lower Normandy (now integrated with the Normandy region), the museum is part of a territory marked by a strong cidricultural tradition. Its exact address, La Logeraie à Barenton, and its connection to the Normandy-Maine Regional Natural Park underline its anchoring in a preserved environment, where the professions related to apple and pear remain perennial. The accuracy of its geographical location is estimated to be fair, perhaps reflecting its isolation in a rural setting.

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