La Cité du Lait — Attraction in Laval

An interesting and unique tour and not something I thought I'd ever do. It's one of those things that you'll either really like or not, kind of like marmite.

This is a tour of the worlds largest dairy museum. You get an end to end tour on all things dairy. From old machines to the cheese making process. I found most interesting areas where they show how packaging (e.g. Milk cartons) and machines have evolved over time. Literally thousands of these thing from different countries.

Finally you're taken through all of the Lacatalis brands from old Camembert packaging to new brands. Again very cool. Though there were some semi scary mascots.

Then finally cheese tasting at the end. An array of three different types of cheese with chutney. Free cheese is always good but this isn't a fancy sit down where it's explained to you. Just eat it! The tour then ends in the shop where you.m can buy all the dairy in the world. Decent prices for Camembert, and they had a couple that are not sold in supermarkets.

All in all interesting tour. The couple knocks on it are it is in French. They give you translated English paper to read but not ideal. The tour guide was however very nice to answer questions in English. Second is timings for the tour are not frequent. Make sure you call in ahead of time, otherwise you may not have a tour!

Worth checking out if you're in Laval. You will not have many opportunities to do this...

C'est un musée très fourni sur l'histoire de Lactalis d'une part et la production laitière d'autre part, notamment avec la visite de l'ancienne usine lavalloise de la firme. Le musée bénéficie d'une belle collection d'objets qu'il est plaisant d'observer. La présence de vidéos aide également à la compréhension ainsi que les mises en scènes. Trois petits regrets toutefois. D'abord l'absence de maquettes récentes, interactives et animées qui pourraient aider à comprendre les multiples processus. Ensuite l'omniprésence dans la dernière partie de la marque (mais c'est un musée d'entreprise donc difficile de juger là dessus) sans pourtant aborder les réussites productives et les raisons du succès international. Enfin, un éventuel aspect société aurait été un plus en parlant de la place de l'industrie laitière en France, de la part des produits laitiers dans l'alimentation, etc. Merci encore aux guides pour leur...

Great Milk museum. Who know there was so much to know about the milk process. I would look up the opening times prior to going as they aren’t open every day at the same time. I visited with two children under 5 who found some aspects interesting but it’s certainly not for...