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Since 1979, theEcomuseum of Viroinundertakes to collect, inventory, and transmit the oral memory of Entre-Sambre-et-Meuse, and by extension of rurality. Know-how, craftsmanship, daily life, memories; through its rich heritage collection, theEcomuseum of Viroinwants to preserve a trace of a past that is still very much alive. Extracts...

Interview with Léon Colle on his experience in the clog-making industry in Nismes (interview dating from the end of the 1980s)

Mr Colle Léon N°190 mechanical clogs

Viviane Lemaire (Album of Viviane Lemaire)

Interview with Gilbert Parizel on his experience of the slate industry in the 1960s (interview from April 2015).

Gilbert Parizel - The slate pits

Viviane Lemaire

Find us, as well as the other players in the preservation of oral memory in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation on the online platformwww.memoire-orale.be

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