The Arts and Crafts Museum

The Musée des Arts et Métiers is a museum dedicated to science. It houses not only an exceptional collection of old planes and cars, but also Pascal's calculating machine and the very famous Foucault pendulum. The Musée des Arts et Métiers has a real educational dimension and offers very interesting activities for children and teenagers.

The visit of the Arts and Crafts museum

• The Museum of Arts and Crafts is considered one of the oldest technical and industrial museums in the world
• The museum is organized in 7 sections: scientific instruments, materials, construction, communication, energy, mechanics and transport

To see in particular:

• one of the world's most beautiful collections of vintage aircraft and automobiles
•  unforgettable demonstrations such as the rotation of the Earth (Foucault's pendulum)
• Pascal's calculating machine
• the laboratory of Antoine Laurent de Lavoisier
• the watch collection of Louis Ferdinand Berthoud
• the loom of Jacques Vaucanson
• the Chappe telegraph
• the plane n° 3 of Clément Ader