Musée Édouard Branly

About the museum

The museum occupies the former laboratory of physicist Édouard Branly (1844–1940), built in 1932 by architect Paul Tournon on the campus of the Institut catholique de Paris. Branly had taught at the institute since 1875.

It was in this laboratory that he carried out the first wireless telegraphy transmission in 1890. His research covered radiant heat, optics and electricity, and he is best known for his use of radioconductors.

The museum preserves the memory of his work: instruments described in his publications, display cases of apparatus he used, elements of his laboratory, his office, and the room known as the “salle de cuivre” (copper room).

Highlights

• Édouard Branly’s laboratory from 1932
• Instruments and apparatus of wireless telegraphy
• The scientist’s office
• Copper room

Permanent exhibition

• Laboratoire et collection d'Édouard Branly – Instruments, display cases of apparatus, elements of the laboratory, the physicist’s office and copper room.

Operated by

Institut catholique de Paris (ICP)

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Access to the Institut catholique campus is through 74 rue de Vaugirard.

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