Musée Le Secq des Tournelles

Housed in the former Gothic church of Saint-Laurent in the center of Rouen, the Musée Le Secq des Tournelles is the largest museum in the world dedicated to historic wrought ironwork. The church, dating to the late fifteenth century, was repurposed as a museum in 1921, providing an original and particular setting for a collection spanning more than two millennia, from the Gallo-Roman period onward. Assembled by the French photographer Henri Le Secq and later expanded by his son, the collection comprises thousands of objects that trace the many applications of iron across domestic life, architecture, and the decorative arts. Locks and keys, door knockers, gates, bed frames, lamps, candelabras, tools, jewelry, and sculptural forms are displayed throughout the former church, encompassing everything from monumental architectural fittings to the smallest objects of personal use.