First floor

· Landscapes of the Correze
· Portraits
· Witchcraft beliefs and practice

A collection of vivid watercolours representing scenes of witchcraft and parareligious traditions in Bas-Limousin during the 19th century. A beautiful collection, unique for its iconography...

The central room shows historical documents, testimonies of technical and craftmen's activities in Tulle.

In 1840, Tulle had the fearsome honour to see a trial remained famous in the judicial annals. For the first time, the results of the scientific appraisals were decisive for the sentence : the trial of young Marie Capelle, spouse Lafarge, accused of having poisoned her squire husband with arsenic. The whole town were always discussing about this incident. George Sand defended Marie Capelle, and Flaubert idealized her as a romantic heroine, Emma Bovary.

· Archaeology and local ethno-history section
   - Tintignac (Naves) : prehistoric and Gallo-roman ruins
   - Saint-Augustin : furniture extracted from the grave of a Gallic warrior
   - Local Art and traditions

Blades and firearms, a nice collection of flint-pistols and many guns prove the importance of the activity of the Arms Factory in Tulle since it was built in the 17th century.

Still in the central room, you can see Herman & Sons tools collection, a sample of the enterprise and know-how genius of the factory workers at the beginning of the 20th century.

In this municipal museum, a display case reminds another drama which happened on the 9th of June 1944 : 99 men were hanged, and 149 men were sent to concentration camps (101 of them never came back).
You are invited to visit the Musée de la Déportation et de la Résistance de Tulle which is dedicated to these events.

Musée de la Déportation et de la Résistance 2 quai Edmond Perrier
19000 Tulle
(free admission)

The visit of the first floor ends by the ethnomusicology room : the museum presents a unique collection of exceptional items of "free reed" instruments (more than seventy accordions) from the 19th century to nowadays : diatonic and chromatic accordions, concert hamonions, and also derived instruments : harmoniflute, concertina, steelreeds, bandonion, khene...