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Musée du Compagnonnage Museum is a rewarding stop for art, history and curious minds. Locate it on the map, book a room nearby in a click, or add it to your travel list to build your itinerary.
About Musée du Compagnonnage Museum
In Tours, the Museum of Compagnonnage is a unique and fascinating institution devoted to the tradition of the compagnons — the journeymen craftsmen whose guilds, dating back to the Middle Ages, have preserved the highest standards of skill in trades such as carpentry, stonemasonry, ironwork, leatherwork and baking. Housed in the buildings of a former abbey, the museum displays an extraordinary collection of masterpieces — the elaborate presentation pieces created by aspiring compagnons to prove their mastery — from intricate model staircases and cathedrals to astonishing works in wood, metal, stone and even sugar and food. Each is a marvel of ingenuity and craftsmanship. Fascinating and inspiring, the Museum of Compagnonnage celebrates the beauty of manual skill and a living French tradition of excellence, a rewarding and unusual cultural stop in the heart of the Loire valley city of Tours.