All industrial & heritage museums to visit in Paris

Explore the impact of industry on society at 7 industrial heritage museums in Paris. These museums showcase the history of manufacturing, technology, and labor.

Are you curious about the history of industry and innovation? These are the top industrial heritage museums in Paris:

  1. Musée des arts et métiers1

    Musée des arts et métiers

     Paris
    The Musée des arts et métiers (Museum of arts and professions) is a museum in Paris that houses the collection of the Conservatoire national des arts et métiers, which was founded in 1794. The museum has a collection of more than 80,000 objects, of which 40,000 are exhibited in the museum, including
  2. Paris Sewers Museum2

    Paris Sewers Museum

     Paris
    The Paris Sewers Museum (Musée des égouts de Paris) features an exhibitions about the history of Parisian sewers, the role of sewer workers, the sanitation process and other topics related to the sewers. The sewers themselves are still in use. This exhibition is for people who can tolerate unpleasan
  3. Musée des Plans-Reliefs3

    Musée des Plans-Reliefs

     Paris
    The Musée des Plans-Reliefs is a museum that is housed in the Hôtel des Invalides in Paris, dedicated to military models. The Musée des Plans-Reliefs exhibits almost 30 plans-reliefs of fortifications along the English Channel, the Atlantic and Mediterranean coasts, and the Pyrenees. Furthermore it
  4. Monnaie de Paris4

    Monnaie de Paris

     Paris
    The Monnaie de Paris is the national French mint. The actual production of the coins does however not take place here, but takes places in Pessac, where since 1998 the Euro is also coined. In addition to the head office, the Hôtel de la Monnaie also houses an extensive numismatic collection, the Mus
  5. Pavillon de l'Eau5

    Pavillon de l'Eau

     Paris
    The Pavillon de l'eau is a museum in paris that is devoted to water with a permanent exhibition about the water supply of Paris and its history from Roman aqueducts to the present. Paris has experienced four periods of production and distribution of water: The Roman age, the Middle Ages, the Modern
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    Perfume museum Paris Fragonard

     Paris
    The Perfume museum Paris Fragonard is a museum in Paris that is dedicated to perfume and shows the manufacturing process from raw materials to harvesting, extraction, distillation, formulation, industrialization and bottling together with the creative process and work of the master “noses”. Furtherm
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    Phono Museum

     Paris
    The phonograph is the first consumer product to have entered homes before radio and electricity. Today, the music industry is ubiquitous in our lives through television, radio, download sites, records and music broadcasting in most public places. In Paris, the Phono Museum illustrates the different