Events & Activities

During a promenade along the water and through history in this exceptional romantic setting you can have a taste of the calmness and freshness of a grand romantic park, but also discover temporary and permanent exhibitions in the Orangery or the old Cider Press.

INDIVIDUALS
Weekends and public holidays
from the first Sunday of April to the end of October 2-6 p.m
Everyday in July and August 2-7 p.m

GROUPES
All year long by appointment
20 persons minimum

Temporary Exhibitions

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Permanent Exhibitions

Exhibition of woodcuts from the park

During your stroll through the Château d’Acquigny park, you can admire the size, carriage, the wood, the flowers… of a really large variety of trees, but without seeing their core. About 30 cuts of wood from the diverse types of timber found in the park are exhibited so that you can discover their color, vernure, veins…in the old Cider Press of a magnificent oak roof support from the XVIIth century whose walls unite every type of Normand construction (rough stone, brick, half-timbering, dimension stone).

Exhibition of old tools

Four display cabinets in the old Cider Press bring together old tools for daily use in working with wood and soil such as a pail hook, cowpie scraper, billhook, draw knife, plane…

Historical Room

The historical room, restored in 2002, is in one of the château’s pavillions that were built in the XVIIIth century. Originally, it was President d’Acquigny’s office (President à mortier in the Parliament of Normandy). This room assembles, in display cabinets, some objects tied to the history of Normandy and the chateau.

Notably, one display cabinet contains two documents attesting to the transformations of the landscape and the park over the course of centuries. A watercolor from 1832 shows a pastoral and vineyard landscape on the surrounding hills that has disappeared with the abandonment of ovine rearing and terraced vineyard cultivation following the decline of the textile industry at Louviers and Elbeuf, and phylloxera and powdery mildew maladies. Acquigny merited back then its designation as a country home. A map of the park as a French formal garden drawn in 1784, on the verge of the creation of the romantic park, reveals a park which is not centered on the chateau, but closer to nature and adopting the Eure valley.

In addition, different exhibited objects attest that Normandy was until the 19th century a region that had, in particular, important metallurgic and glass industries throughout the province