In 1928, Hernand and Sosthenes Behn, American businessmen, of French origin by their mother, co-founders of the multinational company ITT, which at that time was developing its activities in France, on the advice of Paul Janet and as patrons of the arts, acquired the former Ampère property which had just been put up for sale.

They donated it to the "Société française des électriciens", which two years later entrusted it to the Society of Friends of André-Marie Ampère.

Visitors will find models reproducing the fundamental experiments in electromagnetism carried out by Ampère[3] and certain physicists of his time as Hans Christian Ørsted, Michael Faraday and many others.

Other rooms allow visitors to travel through the history of electricity to the production of renewable energy with wind turbines, photovoltaic plants, etc..

The Society of Friends of André-Marie Ampère, which manages the museum, was awarded the 2018 Medal of Honor by the Academy of Lyon on December 18, 2018.