Musée d'histoire

Thanks to a renovation so that architectural museum, the history of La Chaux-de-Fonds Museum offers a chronological perspective as a thematic history of times men and women who have made the city. Become city museum, it sees itself as a bridge between past and present. If the redevelopment of bourgeois villa of the mid 19th century improves the comfort of the visitor - thanks to a lift - and increases by a third exhibition space, the Museum of History has also redesigned its permanent exhibition. Images, objects, models or movies punctuate the visit. As the chronological and thematic outlines key elements in both watchmaking city at 1000 meters altitude, which was born and formed Le Corbusier. The taming of the territory to the formation of an identity, we discover the development of the city World Heritage of UNESCO: Fire and reconstruction, participation and political unrest of the 19th and 20th centuries, it s' then looks at the watch manufacturer and its economic development, its urban infrastructure, immigration or culture and sport. Objects borrowed from other museums, historical figures and common themes are invitations to take the bridge and continue the discovery both in town and in other museums.