Musée de Plein Air du Quercy
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Set back from the north side of the River Célé, about 13km from Marcilhac, near Cuzals, the Musée de Plein Air du Quercy (daily except Sat: April, May, Sept & Oct 2–6pm; June–Aug 10am–7pm; July & Aug €8, otherwise €6) is one of the better open-air museums, and was set up in the 1980s to preserve the distinctive rural architecture of France. Reconstructions that range from a half-timbered eighteenth-century farmhouse to a garage from the 1920s are scattered around the site, which is centred around a twentieth-century Château burnt down by the Nazis in the last war. It's best on Sundays in summer (June–Aug), when many traditional activities like milling, haymaking and blacksmithing are demonstrated. The information is dished out with an appealing blend of humour and didactics, and the whole place is less blatantly commercial than many other écomusées.
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