The space Pignol is a cultural and tourist field dedicated to the memory of the Provençal lifestyle of the 18th & 19th centuries in the heart of Château-Gombert, the most typical village of Marseille.

More than 5000 m² which include:

1000 m² dedicated to the campaign Marseille daily, an ethnographic museum
Museum of the Terroir Marseillais, founded in 1928, is the second Museum of Ethnography of the mouths of the Rhone after the Museon Arlaten created in 1899 by Frédéric Mistral in Arles. This is in continuity with the work of Mistral, its founder, Jean-Baptiste Julien Pignol, wanted to locate it.
Housed in a building specially built for this purpose, he exhibited in 9 rooms open to the public from very rich collections of furniture, costumes, objects of domestic use, tools, musical instruments, crèches and santons, sacred art and religion popular. The museum traces the Provençal lifestyle of the 18th and 19th centuries, interested as well in the small peasant world as the peasant bourgeois: staged of Provencal cuisine at Christmas and the 13 desserts table, of a bourgeois House, etc.

A regionalist library, more than 5,000 books, magazines, archives,

A shop selling local produce and local crafts,

A restaurant, "the Marseillaise Table" for a lunch business, weddings, seminars etc.

A hotel, "the Oustaù", seven rooms decorated in the Provençal style,.

A garden of Mediterranean tinctorial plants (project),

An open-air theatre with 300 seats,

Rooms totally equipped to accommodate business seminars, family reunions...