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Mechanical Music Museum

Les Gets Ouvert
© Mechanical Music Museum - Mel Carle
  • © Mechanical Music Museum - Mel Carle
  • © Mechanical Music Museum - Mel Carle

Description

The museum doubled its surfaces in 2013, the scenography has been changed in 2017 and some new pieces are added every year.

Building A, guided visit, during you could hear the instruments and see them working :
-The music lounge
-The music boxes room
-The concert room
-The Guinguette and the Cabaret
- The imperial gallery

Building B, self-tour :
- The automates and music toys room
-The speaking machines room : during a projection, discover how work phonographs, gramophones and jukeboxes
-The cinema room and its organ to accompany silent films
-The funfair and its barrel organs
-The workshop, reconstitution of an old workshop of instruments restoration

In the Imperial Gallery, linking the two buildings: Savoie area, pedagogical area, temporary exhibition and a reconstituted street presenting a collection of barrel organs from their origins to the present day.

Temporary exhibition: 40 years of mechanical music in Les Gets.

  • 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

Environnements

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

Tarifs

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.

Modes de paiement

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

Bons plans

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

Family package, available for the entire site.

Période d'ouverture

From 09/05 to 09/07
Opening hours daily between 2.15 pm and 7.15 pm.

From 10/07 to 27/08
Opening hours daily between 10.15 am and 7.15 pm.

From 28/08 to 31/10
Opening hours daily between 2.15 pm and 7.15 pm.

From 02/11 to 08/05
Opening hours on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Sunday between 2.15 pm and 7.15 pm.
Closed on Saturday.
Closed exceptionally on January 1st, May 1st and December 25th.

Langues parlées

  • English
  • French
  • Italian

Tourisme adapté

  • 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 Petit Fûté
  • Qualité Tourisme Qualité Tourisme

Localisation

Complément réservation

Booking compulsory for groups. Possibility of morning visits.

Animaux

Animaux acceptés : Non

Thèmes

  • 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.

  • Promotional offers : Free with the Multipass

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

    Family package, available for the entire site.

Mechanical Music Museum
294 rue du Vieux Village 74260 Les Gets
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