The House of the ball

Home of the ball is the boutique Museum of the blue ball, the oldest manufacturer of balls in the world!

La marseillaise petanque ball finds its way into a House-Museum is located in the picturesque of the basket in Marseille

Come and share the history of this game that finds its sources from antiquity with balls of stone and wood in the middle ages to finally achieve the beginnings of modern pétanque with the balls studded then cast as we still know it today ourd' today. You will discover some mythical pieces, movies and slideshows explaining manufacturing one ball...

But this small museum is also a place living with his bowling green covered or you will be able to compete with the 'colleagues', learn to shoot or point, that is often the question!.

Of course, you will find a corner shop where all the accessories required for the perfect bowler are sold. And among good and many gift, the famous table of molded "assman of Fanny" ideas that we have to kiss when one is beaten 13-0!

But you can also and more seriously to order your balls customized to your name by this great Marseille institution of the ball is "the blue ball" creates in 1904 and still run by the family ROFRITSCH.

CALL THE HOME OF THE BALL FOR MORE INFORMATION