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L'Atelier de l'eau
Interpretation Centre
in Cognin
4€
Full-fare
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Explore the "factory canal" and the wonderful ingenuity people have used to transform water into a source of energy. Then plunge into the heart of the water cycle and its different uses. Visit an old vegetable oil mill. Video projection room.
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Cognin has know a rich industrial past, organised around the "Canal des Usines" drifted from the "Hyères". This canal, today preserved and promoted is still the witness of a thriving activity, base on the utilisation of water as motive force. To give all its sense to this canal save, the town has rehabilitated the "filiature Thomas", who preserve a bucket wheel in "Water Workshop".
Outside, a "water fountain" reproduce in miniature the "Canal des Usines" which was going through the...Cognin has know a rich industrial past, organised around the "Canal des Usines" drifted from the "Hyères". This canal, today preserved and promoted is still the witness of a thriving activity, base on the utilisation of water as motive force. To give all its sense to this canal save, the town has rehabilitated the "filiature Thomas", who preserve a bucket wheel in "Water Workshop".
Outside, a "water fountain" reproduce in miniature the "Canal des Usines" which was going through the village.
A the ground floor of the building, a mill reconstituted will show you all the secrets of oil making.
At the first floor of the building : 4 rooms of discovers and experimentations on different thematic :
- Story of the canal of the factories of the filature Thomas
- Water and its use as motive force.
- Water in the world of Renewable energies.
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SIRET number : 217 300 870 00011
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From February 4, 2023 to November 23, 2024
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Adult4 €
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Child2.60 €
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Group adults3.20 €
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Group children2 €
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- Each saturday from February 4, 2023 until November 25, 2023
- Each saturday from April 3, 2024 until November 23, 2024
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