ARMS MUSEUM

Created in 1979 by the staff of the National Arms Manufacture, the museum is an identity heritage in the city of Tulle. As a municipal structure on the eve of the year 2000, it offers a panorama of the history of armaments, of French and foreign manufacture, with a specific development of the tulliste industry. A single reference set: arms of various types and models before 1822, repeated weapons, automatic weapons and white weapons. Built in the 1690 s, MAT, or Manu for the Tullistes, supplied rifles for the Navy. In 1777, the Manufacture, created under Louis XVI, brings together the various infrastructures scattered in the city. In 1917, the Lebel rifle ran the Manu with nearly 5 000 workers, a record of recruitment for a city of 17 000 inhabitants. What remains of the period buildings is the Weapons Museum, the National printing House and the ITU. Far from the time when the State Consul of the State of Virginia in America wrote about his records in 1786: " We bought several thousand arms manufactured in France in Tulle. " Temporary exhibitions and animations.