Musée d’art et d’histoire de Neuchâtel - Neuchâtel, NE, Switzerland
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N 46° 59.484 E 006° 56.130
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The art and history museum of Neuchâtel in listed building from 1880 next to the port.
Waymark Code: WMYV1Z
Location: Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Date Posted: 07/26/2018
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Tante.Hossi
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EN: The arts and history museum of Neuchâtel is a listed building from 1880 in the style of French Neo-Renaissance.

The twenty exhibition halls have an art section with a focus on national and regional artists of the 19th and 20th century. The historic part has exhibits that date back to Celt and Roman times, large collections of coins and historic weapons. They most unique collections focus on early technology with many old watches from the area and all three Jaquet-Droz automata from the late 18th century. These early ancestors of robots are still fully functional.

FR: Le musée d'art et d'histoire de Neuchâtel est un bâtiment classé de 1880 dans le style de la néo-Renaissance française.

Les vingt salles d'exposition ont une section d'art mettant l'accent sur les artistes nationaux et régionaux du 19ème et 20ème siècle. La partie historique a des expositions qui remontent à l'époque celt et romaine, de grandes collections de pièces de monnaie et d'armes historiques. Ses collections les plus uniques se concentrent sur les premières technologies avec de nombreuses montres anciennes de la région et les trois automates Jaquet-Droz de la fin du 18ème siècle. Ces ancêtres des robots sont encore pleinement fonctionnels.
Country/Land: Switzerland / Schweiz

Original Reference: Neuchâtel objets A, page 260

Address:
Esplanade Léopold-Robert 1 2000 Neuchâtel


Year built: 1880

URL reference: [Web Link]

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