Take care of the collections/ metal workshop

Name: Take care of the collections/ metal workshop
Start: 2023-09-16T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T16:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée de l'Armée

meet the Museum’s teams in connection with the restoration of metal or textile, or in charge of preventive conservation. They will reveal their jobs and their...

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Metal workshop: at 11h, 14h30 and 16h. Activity from 10 years old, on reservation (between 04/09 and 14/09 noon) or on site the same day, within the limits of available places (groups of 15 people)

Registration

reservations@musee-armee.fr

meet the Museum’s teams in connection with the restoration of metal or textile, or in charge of preventive conservation. They will reveal their jobs and their know-how. In their workshops, you will discover the gestures, techniques and tools used to accomplish their mission.
Metal workshop: at 11h, 14h30 and 16h (duration: 1h)
Activity from 10 years, free on reservation at reservations@musee-armee.fr (04/09/203 to 14/09/2023 noon) or on site the same day, subject to availability (groups of 15 people – appointment in the courtyard)

About the location

Musée de l'Armée

129 rue de Grenelle 75007 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

The Army Museum is a museum of military history, art and techniques, one of the largest in the world. The museum and the site of the Invalides in which it is inscribed bear witness to the military history of France. Through the military prism, the collections also bear witness to political, diplomatic and social history. The main courtyard, the churches, the prestigious collections of the Army Museum... So many spaces to discover to travel in history, from the Middle Ages to today, and meet the great men, but also the anonymous soldiers, who marked it. The museum occupies a large part of the Hôtel des Invalides built under Louis XIV under the responsibility of the Minister of War, the Marquis de Louvois, for"to receive and house all soldiers and officers who are both crippled, old and obsolete and to ensure there a sufficient fund for their subsistence". The buildings, whose construction began in 1671, on the plans of Liberal Bruant (1637-1697) welcome the first boarders in 1674\. The