Guided tour of the exhibition "The Alps, a frontier?"

Name: Visite guidée de l'exposition "Les Alpes, une frontière ?"
Start: 2023-09-16T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:15:00+02:00
Location: Musée des Plans-reliefs

Discovery of the reliefs during a visit of the museum with a speaker. Discover the history and usefulness of reliefs: historical models of fortified cities.

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

Discovery tour of the new exhibition "The Alps, a frontier?" (in French)

Types d'événement

Visite commentée / Conférence

Thèmes 2023

Aucune sélection

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit

Type de public

Tout public

À propos du lieu

Musée des Plans-reliefs

Hôtel national des Invalides 75007 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

Located on the 4th floor of the courtyard of the Hôtel des Invalides, the Musée des Plans-Reliefs preserves and presents a unique collection in the world: historical models of fortified cities and their surrounding countryside, between the reigns of Louis XIV and Napoleon III, on the same scale (1/600th) and with the same techniques (wood, sand, silk, paper...). These models, tools of military strategy, also constituted an attribute of the prestige of the Heads of State. Today, they are an irreplaceable documentary source on the sites they represent and a valuable educational tool. Through these models (the largest of which reaches 56 m², the visitor discovers a detailed three-dimensional representation of the cities, their buildings, their fortifications and the landscapes in which they fit. You will discover the face of Mont Saint-Michel at the time of Louis XIV or that of Bayonne at the beginning of the 19th century.