One century before drone : aerial kite photography.
Thirty years after the first tests of aerial photography with aérostat by Nadar, Arthur Batut is the first, in 1889, who gets an aerial photography with a kite, technical more flexible and less onerous than aerostat, considering developing new applications in mapping.
This Museum presents the life and work of Arthur Batut through different objects, archives and photographs.
We can find all the devices made by A. Batut to take photographs and kite measurements but also his portrait activity and many other practices: history, archaeology, hiking…
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Free of charge.
Equipment & Services
✓ Toilets ✓ Public WC ✓ Exhibition space ✓ Car park ✓ Defibrillator
Adapted Tourism
✓ Accessible for self-propelled wheelchairs ✓ Even flooring with no obstacles ✓ Minimum aisle width of 90 cm ✓ WC + grab handle + adequate space to move
