Jardins de Salagon

About

The Salagon Museum is a departmental museum located in Mane, in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. It is composed of a Renaissance priory and a Romanesque church classified as a historical monument but also six hectares of gardens. Labelled "Musée de France", "remarkable garden" and ethnopôle, it intends to enhance the past and contemporary culture of Provençal society.

In particular, its ethnobotanical gardens tell the story of the relationship to the plants of the inhabitants of Upper Provence. To date, the Salagon Museum has about 1,700 plant species and a collection of over 15,000 ethnographic objects.