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Ledoux Museum
The only museum in Europe devoted to an architect.
The only museum in Europe devoted to an architect, the Claude Nicolas Ledoux Museum focuses on the work of the creator of the Saline royale.
The life of the architect, of whom only a few buildings remain because they were never built or they were destroyed by time or people, is revealed in around 60 models.
The multiple facets of his work are unveiled (theatres, mansion houses, tax buildings, etc.) through this tour, along with some dream projects, sometimes with utopian overtones (Ideal City of Chaux, a cemetery, a house of pleasure, schools, prisons, industrial buildings, etc.).
New : the Claude Nicolas Ledoux Museum of Architecture
As part of the augmented 180° project, discover the new multilingual touch-screen in the Ledoux Museum which presents, through three different user trails, the architect’s built and dreamed work. A scientific trail, developed with the “Pasts in the present” Cluster from Paris Nanterre University, presents the digitized plates of the book Architecture considérée sous le rapport de l’art, des moeurs et de la législation [Architecture considered from the point of view of art, customs and legislation] by Claude Nicolas Ledoux. Fans of architecture will discover 3D models of the architect’s dream monuments, which will come to life in front of them, and a discovery trail gives visitors the opportunity to explore the different facets of Claude Nicolas Ledoux, architect, philosopher and writer.
