Halle de La Machine

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Halle de La Machine
Minotaure.jpg
Asterion the Minotaur outside the hall
Halle de La Machine
Established2018
Location Toulouse, France
Coordinates 43°34′22.9″N1°28′41.0″E / 43.573028°N 1.478056°E / 43.573028; 1.478056
Website www.halledelamachine.fr

The Halle de La Machine is a museum in the Montaudran suburb of Toulouse, France. It houses animatronic and interactive exhibits constructed by La Machine. [1]

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Building

The museum is located in a 4,000-square-metre (43,000 sq ft) hall on the old runway of Toulouse-Montaudran Airport. With the L'Envol des pionniers museum, it is part of the Toulouse Aerospace La Piste des Géants project which saw the birth and glory days of Aéropostale. [2]

Attendance

In 2019, its first year of operation, La Halle de La Machine received 300,000 visitors. [3]

Collections

The museum includes Asterion the Minotaur, a 14-metre-tall (46 ft) anamatronic minotaur [4] as well as 200 atypical show machines. [5] From 1–4 November 2018, a street show – Le Gardien du Temple – was followed by some 900,000 people and included Ariane the Spider. [6]

The Minotaur during the street show Le Guardian du Temple GardienDuTemple-2201.jpg
The Minotaur during the street show Le Guardian du Temple

See also

References

  1. ↑ "LA HALLE DE LA MACHINE | Projet urbain". Compagnie La Machine (in French). Retrieved 2023-10-30.
  2. ↑ "La Machine: la halle monumentale de Montaudran sort de terre". ladepeche.fr (in French). Retrieved 2023-10-30.
  3. ↑ "Interview. Toulouse. François Delarozière : "La Halle de La Machine n'est pas un lieu qui doit ronronner"". actu.fr (in French). 2020-10-18. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
  4. ↑ "LA HALLE DE LA MACHINE". Meetings Toulouse | Toulouse Convention Bureau (in French). 2023-10-27. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
  5. ↑ "Que va-t-on pouvoir voir au sein de la Halle de la Machine?". www.20minutes.fr (in French). 2018-11-09. Retrieved 2023-10-30.
  6. ↑ "127.000 visiteurs depuis son ouverture à Toulouse, la Halle de la Machine cherche son rythme de croisière - France Bleu". ici, par France Bleu et France 3 (in French). 2019-07-28. Retrieved 2023-10-30.

43°34′22″N1°28′41″E / 43.572756°N 1.478113°E / 43.572756; 1.478113

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