MUSEUM OF THE CERAMIC

A JOURNEY IN THE COUNTRY OF THE CERAMIC
Situated in a building from the middle of XVIII-th century (1742), the documentation centre of the ceramic collects numerous pieces dating from the gallo - Roman era till our days and immortalizes the fame of the arts of the table through 14 rooms.

The ceramic, daughter of the ground and the fire.
Art of shaping and the cooking of the potteries, the ceramic arose from the marriage of the ground (and in particular of its clayey material) and the Fire. Your journey begins so with a meeting with the Material in the raw state, the various clays and by a return to the antique origins of the cooking of which the gallo - Roman oven of III-th century is a magnificent vestige. In the course of time, techniques become clearer, decorations appear, at first sculptured then printed or painted. The mythical fusion of Elements gives objects of art!

The ceramic of the people and traditions!
Beyond its natural resources and beyond its geographic position of river, railway and road crossroads, DIGOIN owes its reputation and its history to the quality of the work of its earthenware makers. The implanting of Sarreguemines's earthenware factories in 1874 thanks to the German annexation of Alsace-Lorraine as well as the development of Stoneware and Pottery and the Company of Ovens (future ALLIED) mark the industrial turning point of the city. Its population doubled, workers are no more sufficient. The rural village becomes the capital of the ceramic. Through the exposed collections and works of ceramic, it is the know-how and the work of earthenware makers of Digoin that one honours.

The ceramic wakes your recollections..
Unique pieces with the refined decoration of the Pyroblan earthenware specially conceived for communities, the rich collections of the museum invite you in a pleasant trip through your own recollections. Witnesses of the evolutions which marked our daily life, these pieces remind us the inside of our parents or grandparents. The variety of decorations, their originality, the choice of forms or of colours, the quality of realizations, will fascinate you.