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Visited this a few months ago - it's an absolute gem.

I love automata - mechanical sculptures that animate in some way - and it has a whole gallery of them, including a doll that can play the harpsichord that was once owned by Marie Antoinette.

I listed it on my niche museums website here: https://www.niche-museums.com/browse/museums/30

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They even have a decimal clock dated from the French revolution: 10 hours per day, 100 minutes per hour, 100 seconds per minute. Total of 100k seconds/day, making seconds a bit shorter. Was largely ignored, only lasted a few years. The computer section has a ZX81, a ZX Spectrum, an Oric Atmos, and a Commodore 64 on display if memory serves me right. All my childhood computers, feels weird seeing them in a museum. My kids were amazed by the first calculators made of paper and cardboard.

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