HOUSE OF TOOLS AND WORKER THOUGHT (MOPO)
Specialised bookshop
2024
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2024
In the House of the Tool and Working Thought, one of the most beautiful architectures of Troyes with its square courtyard, this specialised library is completely interesting and makes every effort to perpetuate a slightly neglected area. It contributes to the spread of trades and techniques. The shop offers around 10,000 titles for amateurs and professionals or simply as an original gift idea. It also publishes and disseminates everything related to techniques, trades, and tradesmen. It is striving to offer you some new works.
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Members' reviews on HOUSE OF TOOLS AND WORKER THOUGHT (MOPO)
4.8/5
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Visited in august 2023
Sans hésiter, je mets 5 étoiles. Ce musée change des autres. La visite commence dès les rues typées de Troyes. La cour intérieure est magnifique dans l'architecture et dans l aménagement. Pour le musée, le bâtiment est top avec escaliers, charpente, plafond et parquet en bois. Les objets exposés représentent une sacrée collection. J ai aime la présentation efficace et soignée. Certes vitrines rappellent des objets que l'on peut trouver dans les familles, chez les grands parents. Les vitrines rangent par métier permettent d imaginer les métiers d antan dont j ignorais pour certain l'existence. Coup de coeur pour les objets de dorure que j utilisé pour la dorure des icônes... Sacrée collections. Mes ados ont bien joué eux aussi. Mêmes les toilettes sont une curiosité, a visiter. Vraiment top !!!
Visited in august 2023
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Visited in august 2023
Je rejoins les autres visiteurs pour souligner l'excellente qualité de l'exposition. Lieu chargé d'histoire.
Visited in august 2023
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It really is a museum of hand tools.
Fair play to the curators. They have acquired a LOT of them. The exhibits don't have dates but probably they are from 1600-1900. The era when tools would be custom made rather than manufactured on a production line.
The museum is very static. 95% of it is large display cases full of, well, tools, categorised by trade or by type.
Often they are displayed by hanging in mid-air formations. A treatment my daughter described as "creepy". The cases full of axes and hammers would be a good opening scene for a horror movie.
I'm just not sure what the appeal is. I already knew that craftsmen use a lot of specialised tools to do a job, and I recognised most of them. Aside from the sheer quantity and odd displays, nothing really stood out.