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The Musée de l'X goes online

2021-03-23T18:22:37.872Z


École Polytechnique created its museum in 2018 but its collections are 226 years old. Here they are digitized and open to all.


Few are aware of the existence of the École Polytechnique museum, created in 2018 in Palaiseau, which nevertheless houses collections retracing more than 226 years of its existence.

It's called Mus'X (pronounced “musix”) and this unique collection of nearly 2,000 pieces from scientific, historical and artistic collections is now accessible online, benefiting from all the art of storytelling in the connected world.

Since March 11, École Polytechnique and Google Arts & Culture have partnered to unveil an unknown facet of this bastion of minds to all audiences, even those with an IQ below 130.

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As with the Nelson-Mandela Museum or the Eiffel Tower, this partnership with l'X is a non-profit-type project that links Google Arts & Culture with the Fondation de l'École polytechnique.

Goal?

"Promote the cultural heritage of this school which is as prestigious as it is sometimes closed."

Starting point, the little-known collections of the museum which, for a long time, were

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Source: lefigaro

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