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Grande Rue 14 – 2112 M\u00f4tiers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Opening hours<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The Mascarons Museum is open on Saturdays and Sundays from 2pm to 5pm from 25 April to 29 November. Outside opening hours, or during the winter period, it can be opened for guided tours for groups (advance booking only).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fees<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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  • Individual entrance CHF 8.- \/ CHF 5.- *<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Group CHF 6.- \/ CHF 4.- per person *<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Free<\/strong> for accompanied children under 16<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Booklet for young visitors CHF 5.-<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Previously booked guided tours CHF 100.- (from 10 to 15 persons, duration 60 mn.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

    * Reduced fees (AVS, students, unemployed, AI)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    • Entrance free<\/strong> for members of the Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 des Amis du MRVT, holders of a Museums Pass, Raiffeisen Card, AMS or ICOM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n

      Exhibitions at the Mascarons Museum<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

      Reference exhibition  (permanent)<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      D’une vall\u00e9e jurassienne aux grandes capitales du monde, trois si\u00e8cles d’horlogerie au Val-de-Travers <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      From a Jura valley to the great capitals of the world, three centuries of watchmaking in the Val-de-Travers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The reference exhibition of the Macarons Museum is spread over ten rooms arranged in sober and contemporary museography. It brings you back to the rich watchmaking past of the Val-de-Travers. The large number of displayed items bear witness to the agrarian way of life preceding watchmaking, to the local watchmakers\u2019 travels to France, England and China, as well as to the mechanization of watchmaking in the valley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Discover why the inhabitants of the valley gradually left, as from 1730, their agricultural activities in favour of the watchmaking industry. Find out about the production system called \u201cin broken parts\u201d, which enabled local watchmakers to build quality pocket watches sold all over Europe. Did you know that Fleurier has become an important watchmaking center from 1830, thanks to the fabrication of time-keepers specially conceived for the Chinese?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      The exhibition also allows you to follow the emergence of trademarks at the end of the 19th century and to understand better why they suffered from a crisis in the nineteen-seventies. Nowadays several firms, which are active in high-end watchmaking and well-known outside Switzerland, are established in the region, perpetuating a three centuries old industrial tradition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Temporary exhibition<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      Under construction, to open soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      To understand more<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

      The museum is housed in Mascarons House, a patrician residence rebuilt in the middle of the 18th century. Its name comes from the carved masks decorating its windows. This building was bought in 1970 by the regional history and craft Museum Association in order to convert it into a museum and a theater. The theater, situated in an adjacent building which was previously a barn, is managed by the Mascarons Theater Group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      In 2013 an important renovation of the museum building was undertaken, including various new commodities, in particular a lift allowing access for people with restricted mobility. The work was done with maximum preservation of the original elements of the building. In November 2016 the Mascarons Museum reopened for the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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