Musée des Soieries Bonnet
19 bis rue Claude-Joseph Bonnet, 01640 Jujurieux, Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
At the heart of the village of Jujurieux in Ain, the site and the collections of Silks Hat(Cap) establish(constitute) an exceptional heritage. Based(Established) in 1810 in Lyons, the house Hat(Cap) creates a factory in Jujurieux from 1835\. By 1900, in her(its) peak, she(it) employs 2000 people among whom more than 600 girls accommodated in the big(great) dormitories of the house. Real industrial beehive, the site concentrates on the spot a shadowing(spinning), weaving workshops, a boarding school(internship) for girls, a chapel, a domestic school, a terminus of streetcar. Having estimated about 300 000 objects and documents, collections manifest Hat(Cap) the industrial epic poem of the house. Machine-wovens, textile drawings, cloths, archives, iconographic collections make up(compose) the wealth of this exceptional bottom kept(preserved) in the buildings(ships) of origin. Discover in the preserved factory, the weaving workshop and its velvet jobs(businesses). Find the everyday life(daily paper) of those who made the history(story) of this factory, example of social, moral and religious organisation on the background of paternalistic ideas. Relive the two centuries of textile creations, of united black in fabrics(tissues) with motives, between artistic excellence, technical know-how and designer clientele.
Tags
Édifice industriel, scientifique et technique, Musée, salle d'exposition, Monument historique, Lieu de culture, spectacles, sports et loisirs
Access
30 min of Bourg-en-Bresse, RD1075 direction Bridge of Ain; 1 h Lyons time, from Chambéry, from Annecy by taken(brought) out A42 n ° 8 Ambérieu in Bugey, direction(management) Bridge(Deck) of Ain.
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