Musée de la Vie Bourguignonne Perrin de Puycousin

The Musée de la Vie Bourguignonne Perrin de Puycousin is in Dijon, in the Côte-d'Or, in the monastery of the Bernardine nuns on the Rue Sainte-Anne. It grew from the collection of the folklorist Maurice Perrin de Puycousin, who from 1870 gathered costumes, furniture and everyday objects to document a rural Burgundy that was disappearing. A collection of 1,914 objects was given to the city in 1935, and the museum opened in 1938 before being reorganised in the cloister from the 1980s.

The ground floor is devoted to the rural ethnographic heritage of late 19th-century Burgundy. The first floor recreates daily life in Dijon from the 18th century to the Second World War, with a reconstructed street of old shops, from the pharmacy to the hatter's, and a section on the history of mustard.

The museum is linked to the neighbouring museum of sacred art in the Church of Sainte-Anne, and appeals to those curious about local history, families and lovers of folk arts and traditions.

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