Adding an adjustable saddle and a guiding wheel, Nicéphore Niépce aimed at perfecting this new means of transportation, which – as its name indicates – allowed its users to walk very fast on foot. The Niépce House decided to build an exact copy of the existing original (exhibited in the Musée Niépce at Châlon). The…
Every year, the National Heritage Days are the occasion for the Niépce House to present new research and findings, which then are put on show in the house permanently. La table servie de Nicéphore Niépce Since J.L. Marignier’s research published in 1999, one knows that the image of the “Table Servie” – whose origins were…
During the National Heritage Days 2003, the visitors were invited to discover in the garden, opposite to the house, a range of plants that are illustrating some of Niépce’s botanical research (cf. other inventions).The yellow color of isatis tinctoria (“dyer’s woad”) illuminates the flower garden. Jean-Louis Marignier and Michèle Lourseau collected their blossoms after bloom…
In September 2002, during the National Heritage Days, Nicéphore Niépce’s house was first opened to the public.
2 rue Nicéphore Niépce,
71240 Saint-Loup-de-Varennes
France
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The Nicéphore Niépce House is open each year from July 1st to August 24th only, every day from 10am to 6pm (closed on Tuesdays).