The museum, established in 1991 offers ethnographic collections on the themes of cardboard and printing, cutting to finishing and printing, the history of the cardboard box in Valréas, the mid-nineteenth century today. Collection of cardboard boxes and cardboard materials and printing alongside industrial archives and documents on these topics. The county museum is unique in France traces the history of methods of manufacture and printing of the cardboard box in Valréas, the capital of French cardboard, origins (mid-nineteenth century) to today. Find out all about achieving the famous boxes draft, invented by Ferdinand Revoul for the importation of "seed" of silkworms. Boxes for perfumes, pharmaceuticals, jewelry, confectionery, but also a reconstruction of workshop, machines and carton printing, graphic collections (lithographic labels, posters and advertising calendars, cards of Representatives, archives companies) will introduce you to an industry that has achieved worldwide fame in the early twentieth century and is still present.
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