The Musée de la Serrure, also known as the Musée de la Serrurerie or the Musée Bricard, was a private museum of

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s and keys located in the 3rd arrondissement at 1 rue de la Perle,

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. The museum closed in 2003. The museum was established by the Bricard Company, and was located within the Hôtel Libéral Bruant (1685), the home of

Libéral Bruant Libéral Bruant (''ca'' 1635 – Paris, 22 November 1697), was a French architect best known as the designer of the Hôtel des Invalides, Paris, which is now dominated by the dome erected by Jules Hardouin Mansart, his collaborator in earlier st ...

(1635-1697), Parisian architect of Les Invalides. It was dedicated to the art of keys, locks, and

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s, and displayed an assortment of locks from Roman times to the present, including keys made of bronze and in Gallo-Roman iron, knockers from the

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, and locks and keys from the 16th through 19th centuries. The museum also had a locksmith's workshop, plus displays of

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