One of the world’s finest collections of vintage planes and automobiles
We like
- The educational dimension of this museum with, for example, fascinating demonstrations such as the one of the rotation of the Earth (Foucault’s pendulum)
- Audio guides for 4-12 year olds and teenagers (for a few euros)
- You can see one of the most beautiful collections of vintage planes and automobiles in the world
The Museum of Arts and Crafts
The MuAM – Musée des Arts et Métiers is a museum dedicated to science. It houses not only an exceptional collection of vintage planes and automobiles, but also Pascal’s calculating machine and Foucault’s very famous pendulum. The Musée des Arts et Métiers offers very interesting activities for children and teenagers.
The MuAM – Museum of Arts and Crafts is considered to be one of the oldest technical and industrial museums in the world
It is organized into 7 sections : scientific instruments, materials, construction, communication, energy, mechanics and transport
Don’t miss the MuAM – Musée des Arts et Métiers
- One of the world’s finest collections of vintage aircraft and automobiles
- unforgettable demonstrations such as the one of the rotation of the Earth (Foucault’s pendulum)
- Pascal’s calculating machine
- the laboratory of Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier
- Louis Ferdinand Berthoud’s watch collection
- Jacques Vaucanson’s loom
- the Chappe telegraph
- Clément Ader’s Plane No. 3
Young audience courses
For ages 4 to 12 and for teens
On site:
- Investigations-games – booklet 4 to 6 years old or 7 to 12 years old
- Amazing explorer! (to download and print)
- 1 audioguide tour 7-12 years old: (5€)
- 34 objects to discover
- in Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish. (duration 1h30)
- 3 Audio guides – teenagers and adults (5€)
- 1-hour tour : the 30 must-see objects of the museum
- 2h30 tour : 75 objects to be introduced to the history of science and technology… yellow and red labels
- “Freedom” trail : to discover an entire area of the museum – red, yellow and blue labels
- Chinese, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Spanish
- The Mobile App (free)
- Mission Inventions: discover the museum in a fun and offbeat way – flash the labels
- Download it from the App Store and Google Play!
The museum at home:
- Manip’s at home self-study notebooks – download
- Electricity in the air
- A cloud in a bottle
- The cork in balance
- Lavoisier’s laboratory
- Les électro-aimants
- and many others…
Activities for young people
Individual workshops (for 4 – 14 year olds)
- The workshops allow you to learn how to solve technical problems in the workshop, while discovering the museum’s collections
- 1 workshop for 4-6 year olds and 1 workshop for 7-14 year olds
- The program changes every quarter
Celebrate your birthday at MuAM – Musée des Arts et Métiers 🎈
- For children from 7 to 12 years old
- The museum offers really nice birthday workshops with children: treasure hunt, manipulations, visit of the museum…
- Be careful, these workshops are very successful. Book in advance
