Electropolis Museum
The Electropolis Museum is first and foremost the story of a century-old machine. The story of a monster of cast iron, steel and copper which supplied electricity to a Mulhouse filtering plant until the middle of the 20th century. A true witness to the industrial heritage of Mulhouse, the Sulzer-BBC machine built in 1901 was saved from destruction in the 1980s by a group of enthusiasts who joined forces to create the Electropolis Museum. The adventure of electricity - Experience the extraordinary human, technical and industrial adventure of electricity in a trendy museum accessible to all.
55 rue du paturage
68200
MULHOUSE
Come and discover this interactive museum, through numerous inventions in an electric universe! Observe the strange phenomena and be surprised by the many games for children!
The museum tells the story of a fascinating adventure, that of electricity. It began in Antiquity, and has continued through the centuries with numerous experiments, discoveries, theories and inventions... until today when everything is electric! Take part in experiments as they were practised in the 18th century and observe strange phenomena that will make your hair stand on end! Let yourself be seduced by the new multimedia show of "the great machine", a jewel of Mulhouse's industrial history. In the new space "An electric future", enter a new era to discover the links between electricity, climate and the new lifestyles of the 21st century. Especially for children: games, experiments, videos to understand how a battery, a light bulb or a motor works, to find out what happens when the current flows...
Opening hours
- open Tuesday to Sunday, 10am to 6pm.
- closed from 1 to 31 January, Mondays, Good Friday, 1 May, 1, 10 and 11 November, 25 and 26 December.
- Closed at 4pm on 24 and 31 December.
Information
For your information, during the winter months, the play stations hibernate, so the garden game is not available at the moment.
Public price
Adult : €11.00Kid : €6.00
Price with the pass
Adult : FreeKid : Free
Electricity poster, 150 years of advertising creations
From 25 Jun 2026 to 30 May 2027
Exposition temporaire
Free
The Electropolis Museum unveils its new temporary exhibition "Electricity s'affiche, 150 years of creations", an invitation to rediscover more than a century of graphic creations and advertising design dedicated to electricity, from the late 19th century to the present.
As soon as it appeared on the energy market around 1880, electricity was accompanied by inventive and exciting advertising. The electricity companies, then EDF from 1946 onwards, called on numerous illustrators and posterists, including the prestigious names of Paul Colin, Bernard Villemot, Lefor Openo and Jean Effel. These images were intended to make visible an energy by nature invisible, valuing the uses, comfort and modernity that it promised.
Exceptionally, the Electropolis Museum exhibits original posters, rarely presented for conservation reasons, as well as drawings, films, games, mascots and advertising items from its rich collections. The exhibition highlights the singularity of electrical advertising: far from promoting a brand or object, it tells an energy, a service and their place in everyday life.
Organised according to a thematic approach (allegories, pedagogy, home, place of women, domestic uses, environment, regions), "electricity" reveals how these images are valuable markers of the evolution of society, its ways of life and its relation to energy.
This exhibition is also part of the 80th anniversary celebrations of the EDF group, a major player in the French electric history and great patron of the museum, whose commitment allows today the conservation, study and transmission of an exceptional advertising and graphic fund.
Mulhouse
55, rue du Pâturage
68200 Mulhouse
France
0389324850
[email protected]
Accessibility
- Hearing impairment
- Mental disability
- Physical disability
Access conditions
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On the A36, take exit n°17 Mulhouse-Dornach and follow the signs for Musée Electropolis or Cité du Train. -
TGV or TER, stop at Gare Centrale [Mulhouse], then take the tram in front of the station -
tram 3 (direction Lutterbach) or tram-train (direction Thann St-Jacques), get off at the "Museums" station