Exceptional opening of the Opinel Museum

Name: Exceptional opening of the Opinel Museum
Start: 2022-09-17T09:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:30:00+02:00
Location: Musée Opinel

The Opinel Museum exceptionally opens its doors on the weekend of the European Heritage Days.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free entry

The Opinel knife was invented in 1890 by Joseph Opinel (1872-1960) in the small hamlet of Gévoudaz a few kilometres from Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. Today, this small pocket knife, which still bears his name, has become a real French heritage object!
Located in a former Opinel factory, the Opinel Museum dedicates nearly 700m2 to the history and manufacturing process of the famous Savoyard knife. Old manufacturing machines have remained in place in the original forge and are an element of the permanent exhibition, as is a filmed presentation of the current workshops in Chambéry.
Practical information:
The visit to the museum is free.
Opening hours:

Saturday, September 18: 9am – 6:30pm, non-stop (last visit at 6pm)
Sunday, September 19: 9am – 6:30pm, non-stop (last visit at 6pm)
Services: bar with outdoor terrace, shop, engravings on site, accessible PMR.
The museum undertakes to respect the sanitary measures recommended by the government: direction of circulation, mandatory mask wearing, mandatory hand disinfection.

About the location

Musée Opinel

25, rue Jean-Jaurès, 73300 Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Savoie
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

In 1890, Joseph Opinel was to taillandier in Albiez-le-Vieux, small municipality near(about) Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne in Savoy. With his father, he forged the tools which the farmers in surroundings used(got) and already they came from a distance to buy axes, billhooks and renowned pruning knives which went out of a small family workshop(studio). And yet this hard Savoyard fabricated for some friends of jackknives, simple, strong, and cheap. These knives had so much success, on which one day Joseph Opinel decided to begin(undertake) manufacturing in a more important way. More than hundred years afterwards, the famous knife Opinel in mark(brand) "The Crowned Hand" is broadcast(diffused) on all continents. He(It) is present at the Modern Art museum of New York and in 1985, Victoria and Albert Museum de Londres chooses it in "the good design guides", collection of 100 more beautiful products of world! Today, Jacques Opinel and Maxim Opinel, descendants of the famous family manage "the Opinel museum", having installed(settled) in old(former) cutlery industry of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne. In the smithy which kept(preserved) its pestles(drumsticks) and martin, an exhibition(exposure) redraws the history of the Savoyard knife, of family Opinel and of industrial adventure; a video allows to visit the current factory and to discover all phases of manufacturing.