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exhibition hall, tools and machines (including a cable machine from the 19th century), the raw materials used (including hemp), manufacturing processes and methods are presented with educational concern. Animated scenes of life aboard ships complete the visit. Temporary exhibitions on the maritime world are renewed on average every two years. The maritime bookstore offers 8,000 books related to the world of the sea. During the summer periods, guided tours are offered at the two museum sites of the
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The realization was not simple because of the terrain. Located on the edge of the
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In 2017, on the occasion of the 50 anniversary of the Royal Ropery as a historic
Monument, the International Centre of the Sea undertook major works to renovate its permanent exhibition. On 1 April 2017, the exhibition reopened with a completely modified space. The experience is more interactive
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This vast garden of rare plants, which stretches over an 18-hectare tree-lined area, has been landscaped as a theatre of greenery, imagined as an introduction to botanical art, and forms a walking space all around the
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Corderie Royal is one of the most important buildings in the arsenal and was one of the first built when the city was founded in 1666. Rochefort is named after the 11th-century village, "Roccafortis". From 1653 to 1660, Jean Colbert du Terron managed Mazarin's affairs in his government of
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A permanent exhibition room is devoted to the history of rope and rope making, while at the seamanship workshop, the demonstration of marine knots highlights the complexity of this technique. The impressively sized room is adapted to the different sizes of the ropes to be made: in this vast
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thanks to additions such as a holographic optical theater and manipulations left at the disposal of visitors. The seamanship area is preserved and the course is embellished with numerous videos and demonstrations to better explain the manufacturing process of the ropes used in the Navy.
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Municipal Media Library, and a photo library and cinematheque of the sea with a multi-purpose projection room.
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The building, whose restoration work was begun in 1976 and completed in 1988, made it possible to give the city the "National Grand
Heritage Prize". Today, this imposing building houses important administrative and tertiary services:
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at the Baltic Sea to make ropes, the largest of which, when completed, measured a cable, or about 200 metres long. All the steps were taken care of at the arsenal, including tarring to prevent the ropes from rotting at sea.
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Brouage. He searched the coast for a site to replace this silt port and proposed to his cousin, Jean-Baptiste
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Since 1986, the part open to visitors has permanent and temporary exhibitions dedicated to the maritime world and the history of the Arsenal de Rochefort.
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oversaw the clean-up of the site by military members, and in 1967, the building was declared a historic monument.
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