Clockmaking and Screwmachining Museum

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Discover the Museum, a real timepiece of the industrial and social history of the Arve's valley. Follow the evolution of the farmer-watchmakers' skills from the XVIIIth century until the advent of the screwcutting technology during the industrial revolution.

Age minimum : 7 ans

A cultural mediator is always present to answer your questions.

Types

  • Museum

Capacity

  • Maximum group size:50
  • Minimum group size: 10

Themes

  • Arts and culture
  • Decorative arts
  • Local history
  • Sciences and technology
  • Mechanical sciences
  • Industry
  • Occupations

Comforts

Languages spoken

  • Italian
  • English
  • French

Services

  • Educational visits
  • Booking obligatory
  • Themed tour
  • Shop
  • Tourist brochures
  • Guided tours

Furniture

  • Car park
  • Coach parking
  • Parking
  • Defibrillator
  • Lift
  • Toilets

Accessibility

  • Mental disability
  • Accessible for self-propelled wheelchairs
  • Reception staff sensitized to the reception of people with disabilities
  • Hearing disability
  • Mental disability
  • Physical disability
  • Visual disability

Services provided

Activities

  • Arts
  • Plastic arts
  • History
  • Industry
  • Technology/Electronics

Visits

  • Group visit duration: 90 min
  • Group visit duration: 60 min
  • Visits in: English, French
  • Unguided group tours available permanently
  • Guided group tours on request
  • Languages information panels: French
  • Documentation languages: German, English, French
  • Booking required for groups.

Prices

From 16/01/2024 to 31/08/2024

Price Min. Max.
Reduced price 3€
Adult 5€
Group adults 3€
  • Free each first sunday of the month (between October and May).

    Free for (on presentation of a documentary proof) :
    Children under 12 with an adult, members of the Museum association and the AAAE, tourist ID card of Haute-Savoie, carte ICOM, Pass Empreintes, Pass Vacances, Press card, lecturer-guide's card, interpreter-guides, heritage guides of Savoie Mont Blanc, group attendant, special days (European Heritage Days, Night of the Museums, Tourism and Handicap Days, etc)

    Guided tours :
    From 10 people, 2€ per visitor + 35€ for a guide package.

Means of payment

  • Bank/credit card
  • Check
  • Travellers Cheque
  • Cash

Opening

From 16/01 to 29/06/2024 between 2 pm and 6 pm.
Closed Monday and Sunday.
Closed exceptionally on Easter Monday, Feast of the Ascension, Whit Monday, May 1st and May 8th.
Open exceptionally on 04/02, 03/03, 07/04, 05/05 and 02/06.

From 01/07 to 31/08, daily between 10 am and 6 pm.
Closed exceptionally on July 14th and August 15th.

Multimedia

Complementary services

Tips

Free entry at the Museum every first Sunday of the month (from October to June).

Our good plans

Free entry at the Museum every first Sunday of the month (from October to June).