The Salagon Priory, one of the Middle Age's most remarkable monumental complexes in Haute Provence has housed the Conservatory of the Ethnological heritage of Haute Provence since 1981. The historical monument and the ethno-botanical gardens that surround it, the research center and the museum, are now managed by the dépatemental Council of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. The Salagon Museum collects and preserves collections (ethnographical objects, iconographical documents, photographs, sound recordings from ethnological surveys and conferences) and presents them in exhibitions which offer the keys for an understanding of Haute-Provence and its inhabitants Salagon aims to gather, study, preserve and present the customs, know-how and first-hand accounts of Haute-Provence's society and people. These works are presented to the public in the form of books, exhibitions, films, seminars, etc. Known for the quality of its research, the Conservatory was awarded the «Ethnopole» label by the Ministry of Culture in 1996. The gardens of Salagon wish to show the relations between the population of Haute-Privence and its botanical environment. They represent an open-air manual which is at the same time an esthetic creation, a learning tool, and a place for the preservation of plants and the knowledge of those plants Five them-gardens are open to the public: the simple's garden, the fragrance garden, the medieval garden, the contemporary garden, the white-oak.