Maker Faire meets Time Bandits.

In its new home at the historic Musée des Arts et Métiers, Maker exhibits will sit side by side with gadgets, machines, and curiosities that span the efforts of inventors from the 18th century onwards effectivly turning the museum into a living lab. Housed in a formerly abandoned priory and originally conceived as a “school” to train engineers during the Industrial Revolution, Maker Faire Paris unfolds in a place where invention has always been in motion. Its collections—early airplanes, primitive vehicles, the first batteries, and foundational calculating machines—were not assembled as static artifacts, but as teaching tools. They were meant to demonstrate how things work and how they evolve and tell a consistent story of trial, error, and refinement.

In integrating Makers and their projects directly alongside these historical objects, the event creates a dialogue between past and present, (re)connecting modern making to a centuries-long tradition of iteration. The message: Contemporary Makers are not separate from history, they are its continuation. 

Zeus

In the opening ceremonies of the last Summer Olympics viewers across the world were treated to a fantastical site: A horse that appeared to be running on the surface of the river. This mythical metal horse, Zeus, created by Nantes-based Atelier Blam in collaboration with MMProcess, took over a year to design and build. It is a 1.8-meter-long, silver-plated aluminum and stainless steel sculpture mounted on a 14-meter, high-speed electric trimaran designed to “gallop” across water, blending art, metallurgy, and marine engineering. After a year on display at the palace of Versailles, it is now at the Musée des Arts et Métiers until 2027.