Visit the interesting Paris Museum of Arts and Crafts

Don't be confused by the name. In fact, this museum of Arts and Crafts is the oldest science museum in Europe. The Academy was originally intended to impart useful science and technology to the French manufacturing industry.

It is a museum in Paris, France, with the theme of the history of the development of science, technology and craft. It became a museum in 1819 and has been wowing visitors for more than two centuries with its vast, intriguing and beautifully laid out collections. Highlights include PASCAL's computing equipment, a giant 1938 television set, scale models of buildings and machines, and the world's first powered vehicle.

The Museum of Arts and Crafts in Paris is said to have been founded in 1794 and is one of the oldest scientific and technological museums in the world. The museum was established to showcase innovations in science, technology and engineering to the public to promote the advancement of craft technology. On the ground floor, there will be temporary exhibitions where you can view some interesting interactive equipment.

The museum has a remarkable and amazing collection of regular exhibits, organized under seven themes: scientific instruments, equipment, manufacturing, communication, energy, machinery and transportation. A total of 2,500 pieces are collected in the 6,000 square meters of the exhibition hall, and the careful layout makes the collection more attractive. Climbing the stairs, you can see that the second floor is paved with wooden floors, which will creak when walking on it, revealing a sense of historical simplicity. The wide hall displays a large number of scientific instruments and tools, as well as machinery, vehicles, communication equipment and other related items. Here you can also see a miniature of the laboratory of the famous chemist Lavoisier, as well as a model of the probe lunar rover.

This unique museum has a number of explanatory signs and interactive interpreters arranged in chronological order, allowing visitors to see more clearly the changes of The Times, especially during the Renaissance and Industrial Revolution.

Admission fee
Regular ticket: 9 euros
Special price: 6 euros
Under 26 years old free!

Address: 60 Rue Reaumur, 75003 Paris

Below the Tower - Brownlee Riverbank Museum

Address: 37 Quai Jacques Chirac, 75007 Paris
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday 10:30-19:00 Closed on Monday
Ticket price: adult €14 language guide €5
Free visit time:
first Sunday of every month (reservation required)
There are free Tours every Thursday night in September

The vibrant walls of the Quay Museum in Brownlee are worth a short walk along the Seine from the Eiffel Tower, but what's inside will keep you there for hours. It is a huge showcase of non-European art and culture, bringing together collections from the Museum of African and Oceanian Art and the Ethnographic Laboratory of the Museum of Humanity, dedicated to showcases from Africa, Oceania, Asia and the Americas.

The museum, located on the banks of the Branly River in Paris, France, displays more than 1 million works of art and artefacts from Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas. A selection of items are also on display in the Louvre's long-term exhibition hall, which opened in 2006 near the Eiffel Tower and is named after physicist Edouard Branly.

The famous French architect Jean Nouvel is the chief designer of the Branly Riverbank Museum and his works are famous for their colorful and imaginative works. All the buildings of the museum are surrounded by a large garden of 18,000 square meters with 180 trees more than 15 meters high, like a miniature forest.

Jean Nouvel designed a glass curtain wall 12 meters high and 200 meters long that is open and transparent, allowing the building to blend into the city and act as an appropriate isolation. Covering an area of 4750 square meters, the exhibition hall with a total width of 210 meters looks both like an ark and a bridge from the outside, and it is a good interpretation of the museum's protection and exchange of original art from around the world.

The Brownlee Riverbank Museum is not only impressive on the outside but a veritable temple of treasures inside, with more than 370,000 exhibits dating from the Neolithic period to the 20th century. Among them, about 3,500 regular exhibits are divided into Oceania, the Americas, Asia and Africa.

Here you can see not only the original African wood carvings full of modernism style, but also the various exquisite clothing and tools invented by the Aikismo people to fight against the bitter cold climate. You can even see the spooky curse dolls and spellcasting props of South American voodoo culture. In addition, the Asian exhibition hall also has various statues, Nuo masks, Taoist symbols and other exhibits related to traditional Chinese culture.