Monday, October 31, 2011

Creusot-Monceau Ecomuseum

Model of a steam engine by William Murdock, 1784
I ran across a really interesting museum collection focusing on industrial machinery in the nineteenth and early twentieth century in France.


They have a gigantic model built over twenty years starting in the 1890s that includes 38 automatons and replicates industrial activities throughout the whole plant in Franche-Comte.

Francois Bonhomme (1864): Forge in Creusot
You can  read a bit about the idea behind this community museum in this article in MuseumCommunities.