Museum of Arts et Métiers
The Musée des Arts et Métiers brings science into an everyday Paris setting, because the museum collection grew out of the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, founded in 1794 to preserve scientific instruments and inventions. From the beginning, it has been housed in the deserted priory of Saint-Martin-des-Champs on Rue Réaumur, and major renovations in 1990 reshaped the complex for modern display. Today, the museum holds over 80,000 objects and 15,000 drawings, with about 2,500 pieces exhibited in Paris. The rest of the collection is preserved in a storehouse in Saint-Denis, linking public viewing to long-term conservation. Inside the former church of the priory, you find monumental science and transport: the original version of the Foucault pendulum, early aircraft—including Clément Ader’s Avion III and Louis Blériot’s Blériot XI—and the first mechanical calculator, Blaise Pascal’s Pascaline. …
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