Cutlery Museum

About

The museum of cutlery (also known as the Jean-Claude Potte cutlery museum since 2020) is a municipal museum located in Thiers in the French department of Puy-de-Dôme in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Founded in 1982, it hosts in part the collections of the former Barante Museum opened to the public in 1924, which closed its doors definitively in December 1981. Established in the heart of the medieval city of Thiers, the museum's initial aim is to create a place of memory and history in order to preserve and enhance the tangible and intangible heritage of buildings, objects and gestures from seven centuries of cutlery.

The museum is divided into three parts: the first two are a few meters from each other in two old buildings in the historic center of Thiers which are both listed on the list of historical monuments while the third is 3 km from the latter near the place-de-Château-Gaillard on the commune of Thiers: the valley of the Rouets. In 2016, by accounting for 23,600 paid admissions, it is the fourth most visited museum in the former Auvergne region.