Automates Avenue

Well worth a detour

This is such a charming place. Take yourself back to a time when the large department stores in Paris created moving "tableaux" to entertain the Christmas shoppers. Some of these scenes have been resc...

A hidden gem in an already magnificent town

What fun! At arrival at the spectacular museum you are directly greeted by extremely creepy and marvelous automated clowns! Although this visit does create quite a deal dent into the wallet ( at a pri...

Absolutely enchanting

We read about these automata at home and decided to spend our summer in Western France so we could see them. They did not disappoint. An unassuming, sleepy little town. Not many people or vehicles ...

Not for everyone but we loved it!!

Very creepy and fascinating museum!! Reminded me of the house of wax film. Basically you go in to a darken small cinema room and watch a spooky film which gives a bit of history on robotic toys and ho...

Expecting creepy but found it to be quite interesting

I was rather imagining this to be full of rather creepy individual automata and to a degree this was the case but I actually came away with an interest in the history of shop window dressing in the gr...