Musée des Papeteries Canson et Montgolfier, Paper manufacturing museum in Annonay, France.
Musée des Papeteries Canson et Montgolfier is a former royal paper mill on the Deûme river that preserves the story of this production site. The exhibition shows historical machinery, craft tools, and equipment that demonstrate how paper was made over centuries.
The Montgolfier family founded this paper workshop in the 17th century and used innovative techniques that made them famous. Over time, the Canson family took over the mill and developed it into a center of French paper production.
The place shows how paper manufacturing became part of local craft identity across generations. The collection tells stories of innovations that French papermakers developed and shared with other regions.
The museum offers guided tours and regularly shows practical demonstrations of paper making with actual machinery. Visitors can best spend a whole morning or afternoon to fully explore all exhibitions at a comfortable pace.
Here stands a fully operational historical paper-making machine in its original full size and can still be used for actual paper production. This machine is unique worldwide and shows how complex and precise the old technology was.
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