After an entire year of construction, the new geological and ethnological museum of La Roque d'Antheron was unaugurated in December 2007.

This glass and steel modern museum shelters two high-quality private collections, greatly significant for their scientific and ethnological contents.

The first collection recounts the birth of mineral life in the area and the 300 million years of development of the provencal rock layers.
Provence is the richest geological area of Europe. It preserved extraordinary testimonies of the 20 million centuries when it lived under the seas.
Often considered wrongly as a “dusty” science, geology reveals innumerable universes which allow understanding of the richness of our subsoil, the technical problems encountered during constructions, the stakes of the safeguarding of water, etc..

The second collection concerns the way of life of the Cuna Indians of Panama, and their encounter with the Waldensians of Provence. A magnificient collection of Molas can be admired, testimony of their
artictic know-how.
The mola is a cotton fabric which is sewn onto the blouse of the Cuna Indians. It reconstitutes the drawings the Amerindians used for body painting. The mola is composed of successive layers of fabrics of different colours. This milfoils “is carved”, then finely sown, in order to let the colour of subjacent fabrics appear and compose the final drawing. A mola requires several hundred working hours; only females complete this meticulous work being as the cuna civilization is a matriarchal one.

> Opening time :
- Winter season : saturday from 2pm to 5 pm and sunday from 10 am to 1 pm and from 2 to 5 pm.
- Summer season (july 1st to august 31): everyday from from 3 to 7 pm.

> Rates :
4€ (2€ for groups) - 8,50 € for the "passeport" (access to the Silvacane abbay)
+ 2€ for guides visit

> Information : tel - (0)4 42 50 70 74
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