Labège. Blue pastel, an Occitan story

Throughout this summer time, why not immerse your self for a second within the refreshing world of pure blue.

The Pastel plant museum in Labège welcomes the general public every single day, besides Sundays, for self-guided excursions, or guided excursions with reservation, in French, English or Spanish. He additionally organizes coloring workshops, or small gardeners’ workshops, or different discovery excursions of the plant all year long, appropriate for the little ones with movies, with reservation.

The Pastel Museum on the Route de Labège is devoted to the thriller of blue and its pure plant origin, pastel Isatis tinctoria L., a treasure of Occitanie heritage. In a really academic and interactive approach, the museum tour invitations the general public step-by-step to get to know the overwhelming majority of pastels which have formed our area over the centuries.

This work, as a life sciences area, was created due to the voluntary assist of Jean-Jacques Germain. It was designed and designed, in collaboration with a scientific committee, by the co-founders of the group Terre de Pastel, particularly with the assist of Sandrine Banessy who has been researching pastel for over 15 years, giving seminars in main cultural venues such because the pure historical past museum of Toulouse.

In 2004, she created the Pastel Academy of Arts and Sciences, which she nonetheless chairs at present, to strengthen the pastel sector.