Le corps au travail, 1850-1939 — MUS, Suresnes, 14 October 2026 – 20 June 2027
Photo: Idris2000, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 Suresnes, on the western edge of Paris, went from vineyards to factories to one of the best-known garden cities in France within three generations, and the MUS, its museum of urban and social history, has built an exhibition on what those changes did to the working body. Le corps au travail, 1850-1939 looks at labour through the tools it used and the bodies it shaped, with more than a hundred pieces on loan from institutions including the Musée d’Orsay and the Petit Palais.
Paintings, drawings and photographs are shown beside the period tools and implements they depict, so that the object and its image sit together. The exhibition has received the Ministry of Culture’s Exposition d’intérêt national label for 2026, a distinction granted to around thirty projects a year across France. The museum itself occupies the former passenger building of the Suresnes-Longchamp station, beside the tram stop of the same name.
Practical details
- Dates: 14 October 2026 – 20 June 2027
- Opening hours: Wednesday to Sunday, 2pm to 6pm
- Admission: €6, reduced €4, free under 26
- Where: MUS – Musée d’Histoire Urbaine et Sociale, 1 place Michel-Colucci, 92150 Suresnes, France (tram T2, Suresnes-Longchamp)
- Organised by: MUS, Ville de Suresnes
- Information: mus.suresnes.fr — +33 1 41 18 37 37
Cultural Heritage Online lists this exhibition as a piece of industrial and social heritage told from a single town: the same place, from the vine to the assembly line to the garden city, with the national label that puts a municipal museum beside the large Paris institutions lending to it.
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