01 / 05

Museum of the comb and the plastics processing industry

Datas de abertura

From 01/02 to 31/12 between 2 pm and 6 pm.

Closed Monday and Sunday.

Closed exceptionally on May 1st, May 8th, July 14th, August 15th, November 11th and December 25th.

Idioma(s) falado(s): French

Animais de estimação permitidos: Non

Groups

Openned on holidays for groups in a guided tour on preliminary reservation

Número máximo de pessoas: 50

Meios de pagamento aceitos

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Cash

Preços

Full price: 4 €

Reduced price: 3 €.

Free entry for children under 16.

Group rate available for 8 people or more.

Accessible for wheelchairs with assistance

Lift (80 x 130 cm) and door >= 77 cm

Come along and discover the history of plastics - their uses, how they are made and the creative side of producing plastic parts, from routine artefacts to luxury objects.

Installed in the heart of the Sillicon Valley, Oyonnax museum, unique in Europe, tell the long and fascinating industrial story about a town and its valley, from combs in box tree to the future plastics processing industry.

It's in this way of object's life, machinery and men, that join comb's specificities and ornament of hairstyle in its technical, symbolic, artistic aspects and plastics in its different applications.

So it mix hairstyle ornaments, parts of decorative art, toys of childhood, design furniture, fancy glasses, domestic objects or still designer models in a revisited course for the reopenning of 2011.