The permanent exhibition
The permanent exhibition will take you back in time to the great moments in the textile industry and give you an insight into the life of the factory, from the workers’ changing room to the maker’s workshop.
As you pass through the blanket factory, you’ll discover one of the emblematic specialities of the Haut-Beaujolais region, and particularly of the Cours basin: blankets made from textile waste. As the leading recycling industry, it is unique in that all stages of production are carried out on the same site, from preparation of the raw materials to dispatch of the finished product.
Temporary exhibition
Rebirth of La Manu: from shadow to light
This is the story of a rebirth, that of the Thizy blanket and fleece factory, which went from being a silent industrial wasteland to the revival of La Manufacture du Haut-Beaujolais.
Two local photographers, Sarah Braillon and Bernard Delphin, two generations united by a shared love for the place, followed the stages of its transformation.
Bernard Delphin explored a dormant factory, deserted but still inhabited by the spirit of the place. Inspired by urbex, his images capture the raw poetry of abandoned sites, where everything seems frozen but nothing is truly silent, as if the walls could still speak to us.
Sarah Braillon, meanwhile, followed the hustle and bustle of the renovation work for two years. Her photographs tell the story of movement, of materials in transformation, of collective energy.
Following a chronological thread, they retrace, step by step, the return to life of La Manufacture.
