Musée de l'Automate |
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46200 Souillac, France (Occitanie) |
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Esplanade Alain Chastagno
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| Floor area | unfortunately not known yet |
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Status from 02/2024
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Souillac is on the main railway line from Paris to Toulouse and is about 15 km (9 mi) south of the Brive–Souillac Airport which has international flights. |
| Description | The automaton museum is closed Since 1988, the town of Souillac has housed a unique national collection of antique automata and mechanical toys in its 12th century abbey church. The multiplicity of characters represented, the quality of the faces and bodies, the complexity and ingenuity of the movements are all sources of wonder for the visitor. You will discover: The great scenes... Initially designed for advertising purposes for the windows of Parisian department stores, these large scenes are remarkable decorations for the end-of-year celebrations, such as the scene from "The Snow Queen". Animals... Animals from distant lands were a source of inspiration for automaton makers. The taste for exoticism is pronounced in France and Roullet-Decamps is renowned for the quality of its reproduction of animal movements. The "Walking Elephants" and the "Creeping Panther" are good examples of the fascination that the wild fauna of distant countries held at the time. Magic, circus arts and show people... Escamotage “Chinese ball escamotor“, The advertisement... Attracting the gaze of passers-by with the first metal filament electric lamps "Lampes Z" or cigarette paper "Le zouave du papier Zig Zag", with the automatons “Charlot with a gas burner“ So many characters that will take you back to a not so distant past... And, to top it all off, an exceptional temporary exhibition will take you into the mysterious world of the Sogobo theatre. Beware, magic is not far away..... |
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