The Musée des Arts et Métiers (“Arts and Trades”) is an historical museum of engineering, communications, construction, transportation, materials and scientific instruments. Nowadays we’d call it technology but the word wasn’t in use when the museum was founded in 1794. The term arts et métiers dates back to the middle ages and meant any kind of economic activity that isn’t agriculture or trade.
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