Cooperage, Ledoux Museum, Royal Saltworks, Arc-et-Senans
Cooperage or Tonnellerie in the evening, used for barrel making, communal kitchens, wood storage and barrel makers accommodation, now the Ledoux Museum or Musee Ledoux, part of the Royal Saltworks or Saline Royale, begun 1775 in Neoclassical style by architect Claude Nicolas Ledoux, 1736-1806, at Arc-et-Senans, Doubs, Bourgogne-Franche-Comte, France. The site is designed in a semicircle, with the Director's House, 2 saltworks containing drying ovens, heating pots and salt stores, workers accommodation and Director's stables. An Ideal City was also planned but never built. The site is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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