Odette Teissier du Cros (née Cololian, 1906 – 30 January 1997) was a French ethnologist, who founded and was the first curator (1963–83)[1] of the Musée cévenol [fr] (Cévennes Museum) in Le Vigan.

After the war, she regularly stayed in the Cévennes with her new family, at the Teissier du Cros house (in Aulas), and at the château de Coupiac (in Saint-Sauveur-Camprieu).

Solicited by local personalities who wanted to create a museum in Le Vigan at the end of the 1950s, in 1959, Teissier met with René Bastide, the city's mayor, to discuss the creation of the Cévenol Museum,[4] dedicated to the arts and popular traditions of the Cévennes, a project for which she very quickly obtained the decisive support of local personalities such as Adrienne Durand-Tullou [fr] and André Chamson.

[7] The Cévennes Museum was inaugurated on 5 September 1963, in the presence of several personalities including Georges Henri Rivière, André Chamson, and Claude Lévi-Strauss.

In 2012, her personal archives were entrusted by her son, Patrick Teissier du Cros, to the Académie des Hauts Cantons [fr].