Musee des Arts et Metiers

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Musee des Arts et Metiers

Musee des Arts et Metiers

The Musee des Arts et Metiers, Museum of Arts and Crafts is a museum in Paris that houses the collection of the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers (National Conservatory of Arts and Industry), which was founded in 1794 as a depository for the preservation of scientific instruments and inventions.

Entrance View of Musee des Arts et Metiers by hotel-etatsunisopera-paris

Entrance View of Musee des Arts et Metiers by hotel-etatsunisopera paris

Since its foundation, the museum has been housed in the deserted priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs in the rue Reaumur in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris. Today the museum, which underwent major renovation in 1990, includes an additional building adjacent to the abbey, with larger objects remaining in the abbey itself.

The museum has over 80,000 objects and 15,000 drawings in its collection, with 40,000 at the Paris site. Among its collection is an original version of the Foucault pendulum.

The museum appears in literature as the scene of the climax of the novel Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco.

The museum can be accessed by the Paris Metro station Arts et Metiers. (Text Source: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia)

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