La fabrique du Temps

26 Mar - 3 Nov 2025

Group exhibition “La fabrique du Temps,” [Manufacturing Time] at Musée de La Poste (Paris), running from 26 March – 3 November 2025, curated by Céline Neveux. Perfect Present on display.

By virtue of its history and its very activity, the Post Office is inextricably linked to the concept of time, and for centuries it has played a decisive role in measuring and managing time.

As early as 1839, the postal administration, whose activities were affected by the fact that time was not synchronised from one municipality to another, obtained an order from the Ministry of the Interior for municipal clocks to be set according to tables supplied by the Bureau des Longitudes, thus laying the foundations for a shared ‘national time’.