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At La Maourine, in the Borderouge district, the Museum's new facilities await visitors in a natural, preserved environment.

The visit takes place beneath a large shelter that recreates the conditions favourable to plants in the undergrowth in the Midi-Pyrénées region. There are also hides around the Maourine lake for observing the animal and plant life.

The Museum also offers 7500 m2 of World Kitchen Gardens. What does man eat across the world, and how does he grow it? The World Kitchen Gardens answer this wide-ranging question through eight patches of crops grown in different world regions: Europe, Africa-Mediterranean, the Tropics, Asia and the Americas.

The nature area contrasts with the kitchen gardens that are carefully tended by man. Here, a protected reed bed (a pond covered with reeds) enables various species of birds to make their nest.
Accompanied by a guide, visitors gain access to it via the "forgotten path. Man has no influence in this wooded area: nothing is cut down or weeded and the soil is nourished. Nature is left to its own devices.