Mechanical Music Museum

Come to discover the incredible mechanical instruments collection of the museum. More than 900 pieces are exposed : carillons, clocks, music boxes, orchestrions, mechanical pianos, stringed instruments, barrel organs, automates, phonographes...

Description

• The Museum exhibits Europe’s finest collection of 750 mechanical musical instruments, all of which are in working condition and exhibited in the context of their time. The Mechanical Music Museum, opened in 1988, recently doubled its exhibition surface and revised its scenography.
  
  Let us guide you to discover an original and unique collection with more than 750 pieces : carillons, music boxes, barrel organs, dance organs and carousel organs, mechanical pianos, accordions and automatic violins, orchestrions, phonographs and gramophones, exhibition of automatons from the perfumers Roger & Gallet, presented in their original context in the different rooms of the museum, in 1500 m2.
  The animated visits will marvel your eyes and your ears.

Complément accueil

Number of rooms : 10
Number of persons per room mini : 30
Total capacity : 300
Group children maxi : 180
Group adults maxi : 180

Services

• Guided individual tours
• Unguided group tours
• Guided group tours
• Educational visits
• Themed tour
• Shop
• Set down on-site for groups
• Permanent entertainments organiser
• Tourist brochures
• Tourist information
• Guided tours
• Unguided individual tours

Environments

• Close to a public transportation
• Near shuttle stop
• Mountain location
• Resort centre
• Lake 5 km away

Prices

Adult: Building A : 10€
Building B ; 7€
Both : 14€
Child: Building A : 6€
Building B ; 4€
Both : 9€
Large family: 38 € (For 2 parents, 2 to 4 children, in the whole museum.).

Free entry for children < 4 years.
Group rate available for > 20 people.

On appointment for groups with possibility for morning visits. For further information on pricing, please contact the Museum directly.
Free with the Multipass.

Payment methods

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

Good deals

Joint entrance ticket for the Museum and exhibition areas (1500m2), about 2 hours visit.

Family package, available for the entire site.

Spoken languages

• English
• French

Adapted tourism

• Hearing disability
• Mental disability
• Visual disability
• Accessible for wheelchairs with assistance
• Accessible for self-propelled wheelchairs
• Reserved space 330 cm wide < 100 m from the site
• Even flooring with no obstacles
• Absence of protrusions > 2 cm
• Minimum aisle width of 90 cm
• Doors >=77 cm wide
• Lift (80 x 130 cm) and door >= 77 cm
• Reception desk between 70-80 cm high
• WC + grab handle + adequate space to move
• Possibility of drop-off in front of the site

Labels

• Petit Fûté
• Qualité Tourisme

Localisation

The museum is located next to the church.
For disabled access, please contact the museum reception desk.

Additional booking

Booking compulsory for groups. Possibility of morning visits.

Pets

Pets allowed : No

Themes

• Promotional offers : Free with the Multipass

• Host portrait : Inventing new techniques, adapting musical instruments to record and reproduce sounds, imagining the most audacious musical machines capable of doing without humans. Let yourself be surprised and discover an original and unique collection of over 900 pieces.

• Tips : Joint entrance ticket for the Museum and exhibition areas (1500m2), about 2 hours visit.
  
  Family package, available for the entire site.