Workshop "Small Builders of Mantes"

Name: Workshop "Small Builders of Mantes"
Start: 2023-09-17T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu

Building game, Lego and Kapla at the museum, what better way to discover the profession of architect than to (re)immerse yourself in this childhood pleasure?

Sunday 17 September 2023, 14:00, 15:00, 16:00Passed

Conditions

Free, open access

Ville de Mantes-la-Jolie

Building game, Lego and Kapla at the museum, what better to discover the profession of architect than to dive (re)in this childhood pleasure? In connection with the exhibition "Raymond Marabout, an art deco architect in Mantes-la-Jolie", the Hôtel-Dieu Museum offers the workshop "Petits bâtisseurs de Mantes". Based on building plans and archival images, you can experience the principles of architecture by recreating the architect’s buildings.

About the location

Musée de l'Hôtel-Dieu

1 rue Thiers 78200 Mantes-la-Jolie

Yvelines
Île-de-France

Labelled Musée de France in 2002, the Hôtel-Dieu museum is located near the Notre-Dame collegiate church. Built in the fourteenth century under the reign of Charles V and heavily redesigned in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the building underwent new assignments from the eighteenth century: prison under the Revolution, hospice, orphanage then, successively, theatre, café, cinema and ballroom before being acquired by the City in 1962\. The chapel of the Hotel-Dieu was declared a Historical Monument in 1948 for its 17th century facade and listed as a Historical Monument for the rest of the building in 1964\. The restoration of the building completed, the museum was inaugurated in 1996\. The museum houses a lapidary collection from the Collegiate Church and the church of Sainte-Anne de Gassicourt, as well as works by the post-impressionist painter Maximilien Luce (1851-1941), illustrating the themes of the landscape in the Seine Valley, river tourism, industrial growth and the c