Musée des Arts de la Table Arnay-le-Duc Musée du Chanvre Bligny-sur-Ouche Musée des Amis du Vieux Nolay HEMP MUSEUM HISTORY The house where the hemp museum is was built during the XIVth century, by a reach country-man. During the XVIIIth century, it was the town house (weddings, conscription and so on ...). Before the 2nd world war, an owner destroyed the outside and the inside, selling the stones around the windows, the chimney, the ceilings. An association, in 1954, began to restaure it and installs the hemp museum. Why hemp ? because it was a very important cultivation of the valley, and the industry of hemp weaving employed a large part of the population of Bligny till 1900 (80 weavers in 1850). Hemp harvesting   Top