Musée de la viscose, Industrial heritage museum in Échirolles, France.

This museum occupies the former viscose factory grounds and presents machinery, photographs, and films documenting artificial silk production. The displays walk visitors through each stage of the manufacturing process using original equipment and archived visual records.

The factory opened in 1927 and became a major center for artificial silk production in the Grenoble region for more than 60 years. Production ceased in 1989, and the site was later transformed into a museum to preserve this industrial legacy.

The museum keeps the memory of the Cité de la Viscose, the workers' housing estate built beside the Cellatex plant, through objects and accounts of daily life in the factory and the neighbourhood. Temporary exhibitions focus on the world of work in the Isère department. The mannequin in a blue cap and white apron, holding a tray and a bag of white filament, shows the dress and gestures of a viscose worker.

The museum stands on the former factory site in Échirolles, between the old Cellatex grounds and the workers' housing estate, near Grenoble. In 2022 the city announced it was considering demolishing the building and merging the collections with those of the Musée Géo-Charles, so check whether it is still open before travelling.

Of the 634 objects in the collection, 184 are on display. Among them are items from the workshop of Count Hilaire de Chardonnet at the Château du Vernay, who developed artificial silk, tracing the invention's beginnings.