Candles are the lighting technology par excellence of the New France era. Enhance your knowledge of the period and learn the rudiments of the dipping technique.

Discover the secrets of the most beautiful fabrics of New France and learn more about flax. You can also attend a demonstration of spinning with the spindle and the spinning wheel.

Flourishes presents 32 floral representations based on the theme of intimacy. Thirty-two immortalized wonders that reflect the miracle of life.

Create soap and assorted baubles from felt. Learn how felt was originally produced from wool.

Learn how to create marbled paper. This technique has been practiced in Japan since the early 12th century.

The Château Ramezay Museum invites you to participate in historical trials that actually took place in New France by attending Passions and Scandals.

See how women carded the wool of their grazing animals and spun it into yarn on the spinning wheel.

Timber parterre. Merged landscapes is suggestive of both the French garden that was popular in 17th-century cities and the wild landscapes of the young colony during that period.

Discover how our predecessors made their own dyes from plant and flower concoctions, using vegetable matter such as golden-rod, sumac or onion skins.

Give your letters an antique look. Learn the steps to create your own paper with cotton or flax fibres. Personalize your paper with coloured threads or flowers.

Learn how to make your own natural soap, freshly scented with flowers, following a traditional recipe made with goat's milk, olive oil and beeswax.