Musée d'Histoire locale de Rueil-Malmaison, Local history museum in Rueil-Malmaison, France

The Musée d'Histoire locale de Rueil-Malmaison occupies the former town hall built by architects Lebois and Prince, completed in 1869. Its red brick and cream stone facade rises three storeys to a grey slate roof with three towers, dormer windows and two tall chimneys. A broad stone staircase leads to the central arched wooden doorway, above which a stone pediment carries a round clock and the town's carved coat of arms.

The building was Rueil-Malmaison's town hall, built by architects Lebois and Prince for mayor Adrien Cramail; its first stone was laid on 24 May 1868 and it was finished the following year. On 1 September 1869 Napoleon III granted the town its coat of arms by decree for the inauguration. By 1978 it was too small for 60,000 inhabitants, so a new town hall was built and this one became a museum, inaugurated on 20 February 1982 by deputy-mayor Jacques Baumel.

The museum's holdings come from the town's own collections and deposits by the Société historique de Rueil, arranged thematically as the memory of Rueil. A room is devoted to Édouard Belin (1876–1963), inventor in 1907 of the bélinographe, a phototelegraphy process that sent photographs over distance and led to modern fax machines and photocopiers.

The museum occupies the former town hall on the town's main square, a building with a broad stone staircase up to the arched entrance. The ground floor is reached by these steps, and the three-storey facade with its clock pediment is visible from the square.

A room is devoted to Édouard Belin (1876–1963), born in Rueil, who in 1907 devised the bélinographe, a phototelegraphy process that transmitted photographs over distance and led to the modern fax and photocopier. The museum also keeps 1,600 figurines of Napoleon's Grande Armée.