30/37.- Camaret, Argol (2)

Among the trades displayed in the Argol museum are basketweaving, lace-making, rope-making, wool-spinning, and, as in this picture, clog-making. Some of the artisans are retired people who did these jobs all their lives, while others have learnt it especially to demonstrate it in the museum. Other, similar heritage museums in the peninsula demonstrate school life, cider-making, pancake-making and study the many minerals to be found in the peninsula, much of which is of volcanic origin.

In Camaret itself, a small two-room museum retraces the history of the village and its fisheries, while in Ouessant, another museum is devoted to buoys and lighthouses.

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