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Welcome in the virtual Museum of the automats of the XVIII and XIXe centuries!
While entering this Museum, you will see functioning of the single parts carried out by the largest automatists of their time. Among these masterpieces of clock making mechanics, you will discover:

The draughtsman of Jaquet-Droz	The musician of Jaquet-Droz	Retort « duck digerator » of Vaucanson
The player of tympanon © Musée des arts et métiers-CNAM Photo P.Faligot-Seventh Square	The lesson of song	Pierrot writer of M. Bertrand

For any relative information with the parts exposed in this Museum,
you can go in the heading “a Little history” present on this site.