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Metallurgy museums

​Cooling Tower Metallurgical Company

The former factory territory was cleaned up and landscaped by Dominique Perrault between 1996 and 2000. The former main cooling tower has been preserved as an important emblem of this working-class past and illuminated at night. Two activity zones have been set up on the site. Other projects have been planned around this campus, such as an international high school or a contemporary art center with a national or even European dimension in the remains of the factory (large hall and refrigerating tower), in association with the National Center for art and culture Georges-Pompidou. Considered too ambitious, these projects were abandoned and the reflection focused on the creation of a third place around the circular economy. The Grande Halle restructuring project therefore started in March 2018. Regularly presented to residents who wanted to follow its development in the mediation space called Cité des Chantiers, it was completed in September 2019 and was opened to the public on October 11, 2019. The project was presented at the French Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale.

​Ardennes Metallurgy Museum

​The Ardennes Metallurgy Museum is dedicated to the history of metallurgy in the Meuse valley, in the Ardennes. It is a museum located at the exit of Bogny-sur-Meuse, in a former industrial building.

Metallurgy Museum

​The Metallurgy Museum was created in 1990 on the ground floor of the former hospital to discover the industrial heritage of the city.
The visit is structured around five major themes: the origins of electrometallurgy, men and their tools, social events, product manufacturing and the modern factory.

Metallurgical tables

Rochette Raymond 

Raymond is a French painter, born May 25, 1906 in Le Creusot and died December 26, 1993 in Le Creusot. From his childhood, he was fascinated by the world of heavy metallurgy. From Morocco, where he did his national service. In 1949, he obtained permission to enter the factory and paint there. Quickly accepted by the workers, he depicts them more and more often as miniscules next to the machines they dominate or in the center of paintings.

Le "Four Martin" de Jean Amblard "renait" à Port de Bouc

Jean Amblard is a French painter born July 26, 1911 in Clermont-Ferrand and died June 18, 1989 in Rochefort-Montagne. From an Auvergne family in Asnières. He devoted himself early to the study of plastic arts, attending the National School of Decorative Arts in 1924, then as a free auditor at the National School of Fine Arts in 1926. In 1947, he exhibited with Mireille Miailhe and Boris Taslitzky at the Gentilhommière gallery. In 1948, he won the Blumenthal Prize for painting. His style joins the "battle of realism" led by the PCF in the context of the Cold War, mainly between 1948 and 1953, alongside Jean Vénitien, André Fougeron and Boris Taslitzky. He carries out numerous mural art works under the 1% of monumental decorations for public buildings, often in engraved cement. He developed with his second wife, the artist Nicole de Ricou, a ceramic technique on slices of Volvic stone.​

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