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See, touch, understand Experiment with your voice, compose a tune, play the
electric guitar or the Hammond organ, ah this is possible and accessible
to aIl in the music area. Visitors can understand, through music and
its production techniques, how electricity is involved, flot only in
the technology, but also in the social transformation of tastes and
means of making sound. The evolution of guitars, the organ, or the use
ofthe voice is ail the more vivid for the visitors if they can themselves
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The discovery of electricity. Over 600 m2 of permanent exhibitions were completely refurbished in 2001: audiovisual projections, animated presentations and new technologies offer a very lively approach to the history of electricity from Antiquity to the XlXth century. Four main areas deal with the following themes: - electricity in nature with the natural manifestations
of electricity: lightning, Saint Elmos fire; XXth century, electrical century Covering more than 1500 m2, the new permanent exhibitions present alI the upheaval caused in the XXth century by electricity. In a section alternating shows, collections of extraordinary objects and domestic items, special effects and interactive exhibits, three mains themes are illustrated: - the fairy and the financier or the era of the World Fairs; - the electrical servants and the arrival of electrical appliances in the home; - "A machine and men ", a theatrical
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