Guided tour of a museum on electricity as part of "Look up!"

Name: Guided tour of a museum on electricity as part of "Look up!"
Start: 2024-09-20T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2024-09-20T12:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée Electropolis

Through a thematic guided tour, the mediator invites students to discover the building and the garden of the museum in more depth. This building has a particular shape and the gigantic size of the Mac

Friday 20 September, 10:00Passed

Conditions

30 people maximum

Registration

0389384250 reservations@electropolis.tm.fr

Cyril Crespeau - Musée Electropolis

Through a thematic guided tour, the mediator invites students to discover the building and the garden of the museum in more depth. This building with its particular shape and the gigantic machinery of the garden will allow students to better understand the location of this museum in Mulhouse and its history. Reservations are required by phone or email, subject to availability.

About the location

Musée Electropolis

55 rue du Pâturage, 68100 Mulhouse

Haut-Rhin
Grand Est

The collection of the Museum EDF Electropolis devoted to heritage and to history(story) of the electrical power counts more than 12 000 objects among which one thousand is presented in the permanent exhibition. They find at once objects bound(connected) to the scientific discovery of electricity and to its industrial applications – by electrostatic machines to the generative groups - and objects of the domestic sphere there which illustrate the radical transformations operated for century in the field of comfort, of preparation of food, of communication and of audiovisual media... As a supplement to this collection, important documentary bottoms, posters, technical and commercial archives allow to the museum to assure(insure) its mission of preservation, of research(search), of promotion(valuation) of this heritage seldom taken into account in the public collections. The major component of the collection is the generator " Sulzer-BBC « of 1901, at the origin of the creation of the museum. Real witness(baton) of industrial mulhousien heritage, this mechanical and electrical monster of 170 tons fed with electricity the DMC shadowing, from 1901 till 1947\. She(It) required 20 000 hours of restoration(catering) to work again every day.