Throughout the year, the Charlois Fund for Art and the Forest offers a full and varied programme dedicated to the promotion and development of forests and their invaluable resources.

The Charlois Fund for Art and the Forest’s collections cover four centuries of the history of art and forests. They showcase the professions that valorize wood as a raw material through fabulous documents such as the Atlas des bois du Nivernais et du Donziais, published just before the French Revolution and comprising 28 maps carefully executed in pen and watercolour, or the collection of photographs by Viscount Raoul Saulnier d’Anchald, dating from the turn of the 20th century, which provides an invaluable historical and sociological record of the know-how and living conditions of forestry workers in the Bertanges forest.

The Charlois Fund for Art and the Forest also invites visitors to come and view its temporary exhibitions, enjoy a guided tour or participate in a tasting workshop of wines aged in oak barrels.

The Charlois Fund takes part in major national events dedicated to forests and various fields of expertise, such as International Forest Day, the Nuits des Forêts and the European Heritage Days.    

The tour also includes a visit to the La Grange cooperage, where visitors can see the coopers at work crafting exquisite barrels and appreciate how the cooper’s skills and know-how have been preserved over the centuries.