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La Piscine Museum

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145: 102: 36: 171:(ENSAIT), and was seen as a way of cultivating the tastes of the town's workers, foremen and manufacturers. To this end the collection combined elements of literature, fine-arts, science and industrial products. The ENSAIT museum closed with the onset of 195: 167:
The museum's permanent collection has its origins in 1835, when a collection of fabric samples from the many local textile factories was started. By 1898 the collection was housed in the
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Textiles, fashion, ceramics, ethnographic collections related to the textile industry, fine arts
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La Piscine was reopened in 2018 after two-year restoration, that cost nine million euro.
112:(French for "the swimming pool") is a museum of art and industry, located in the city of 160:. It closed as a swimming pool in 1985, and was remodelled as a museum by the architect 239: 377: 128:, but its common name derives from the fact that it is housed in a former indoor 101: 148:
Sculpture of a tiger and lion fighting by Emile-Joseph-Alexandre Gouget (1870)
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The swimming pool was constructed between 1927 and 1932, by the
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from the French Knowledge. Retrieved on 7 April 2008.
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Le musée d'Art et d'Industrie de la ville de Roubaix
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La Piscine-Musée d'Art et d'Industrie André Diligent
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Roubaix

Roubaix
France
swimming pool
art deco

Lille
Albert Baert
Jean-Paul Philippon
National High School of Arts and Textile Industry
World War II
"Roubaix - La Piscine - Musée d'Art et d'Industrie"
La Piscine, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie (Roubaix)


"Building"
the original
"France's art deco jewel is reborn to make an even bigger splash"
Museum website
50°41′33″N 3°10′03″E / 50.692577°N 3.167560°E / 50.692577; 3.167560
Categories
Buildings and structures completed in 1932
Swimming venues in France
Art museums and galleries in France
Industry museums in France
Art Deco architecture in France
Museums in Nord (French department)
Museums established in 2000

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