Museum of the comb and the plastics processing industry
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Centre Culturel Aragon
88 cours de Verdun
01100 Oyonnax
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Museum of the comb and the plastics processing industry

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.
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Description

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.

Themes

  • themes

Welcome supplement

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

Categories

  • Museum of France
  • Municipal museum

Languages

  • French

Groups

  • Group accepted
  • Minimum group size: 8
  • Maximum group size: 50

Welcoming of pets

  • Pets refused

Openings

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.

Prices

Full price: 4 €
Reduced price: 3 €.

Free entry for children < 16 years.
Group rate available for > 8 people.

Services and comforts

  • Shop
  • Coach access
  • Guided tours
  • Educational visits

Activities

  • Temporary exhibition
  • Children's entertainment

Equipments

  • Car park
  • Coach parking
  • Parking nearby

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