Treasure hunt: discovering the Maison des métallos

Name: Treasure hunt: discovering the Maison des métallos
Start: 2023-09-16T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T12:30:00+02:00
Location: Maison des Métallos

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the Maison des métallos invites you to discover its secrets and history with a treasure hunt!

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free, registration recommended (subject to availability), online ticketing opens on September 5, 2023

Registration

Register / book: https://maisondesmetallos-billetterie.mapado.com/event/245421-visite-jep-enfants-ados 01 47 00 25 20 reservation@maisondesmetallos.paris

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the Maison des métallos invites you to discover its secrets and history with a treasure hunt!

First a manufacturer of musical instruments in the 19th century, then a centre of labour unionism and, finally, a public cultural establishment, the Maison des métallos has undergone many metamorphoses and is home to an exciting history.
Accompanied in your quest by mediators, go back in time and solve the mysteries behind this emblematic facade, classified in the additional inventory of historical monuments.

About the location

Maison des Métallos

94 rue Jean-Pierre-Timbaud 75011 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

In 1881, at 94 rue d'Angoulême (now rue Jean-Pierre Timbaud), the Maison Couesnon was founded. Manufacture of copper musical instruments, world renowned for the quality of its instruments, Couesnon is the first manufacturer of musical instruments to have introduced the steam engine in its industries. Following the economic crisis of 1929, the company, which sells a lot of instruments to American jazzmen, had to reduce the sail to finally give up the buildings, in 1936\. That same year, with the Popular Front, the workforce of the Métallurgie de la Seine went from 10,000 to 250,000 unionized workers. The money from the contributions is invested in real estate, including 94 rue d'Angoulême in order to have large enough premises to develop activities tenfold compared to the tens of thousands of new members. The House of Metallurgists is inaugurated on May 2, 1937 and becomes a high place of trade unionism, managed by the Union Fraternelle des Métallurgistes, a branch of the CGT dedicated