Electropolis Museum, Mulhouse
Journey to the heart of the history of electricity
Located in Mulhouse, Europe's capital of technical, scientific and industrial museums, the Electropolis Museum is the only museum in Europe entirely dedicated to electricity.
Take a journey through centuries of discoveries, experiments and inventions, from antiquity through the 19th and 20th centuries, rich in progress, to the present day. Finally, a space for reflection plunges visitors into the heart of innovation and the energy challenges of the 21st century and the electrical uses of the future.
At the origin of the museum, a handful of enthusiasts of scientific and technical heritage wanted to safeguard the jewel of Mulhouse's industrial heritage: a Sulzer-BBC electric generator. A monster of cast iron, steel and copper used to power the former DMC filter factory until the middle of the 20th century.
The Electropolis museum has a surface area of 4,000 square metres where more than 1,000 objects, some of them highly unusual, are housed.
Experience the extraordinary human, technical and industrial adventure of electricity in a trendy museum accessible to all.
With an original direction, animations, expériences, plunge into the adventure of electricity to understand how a battery, a light bulb, a motor work, to find out what happens when current flows.
Photography by Alf van Beem