Musée du Familistère

Jean-Baptiste André Godin (1817-1888), creator of the famous manufacture of stoves, Democratic and Republican Fourierist convinced, imagine a society of solidarity with all the "equivalent of wealth." Beside the foundry Guise, on the banks of the Oise, he realized during the second half of the nineteenth century Familistère or "Social Palace", consisting of three residential houses and auxiliary equipment such as washing-pool , the commissaries, the pleasure garden, school or theater. Discover the Guise of Familistère through the apartment of the founder and the model of the site, the model apartment, courtyards, the Flower Garden and the Theatre of the multimedia show Familistère.