Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine

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Galerie des moulages in the Cité

The Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine , the site of architecture and cultural heritage , is a French architecture museum . It is located in the Palais de Chaillot on Place du Trocadéro in the 16th arrondissement of Paris .

History of the museum

The museum follows on from the Musée des Monuments français, established by Eugène Viollet-le-Duc in 1879 . It is located in a wing of the Palais de Chaillot, built for the 1937 Paris World Exhibition . After a fire in 1997, it was rebuilt by 2007 and opened under its current name.

For the fulfillment of its tasks the Cité receives funds from companies, for example since 2007 from the French real estate group Bouygues , the specialist publishers of the Groupe Moniteur and the Swiss designer furniture company Vitra . It belongs to the “Public Institutions of Industrial and Commercial Character” ( EPIC ) and is subject to the supervision of the French Ministry of Culture .

Use of the Cité

The building contains approx. 8,000 m² of exhibition space for the permanent exhibition, 1,830 m² of space for special exhibitions and an architecture library on 1,700 m².

The museum has three sections: the gallery of casts ( Galerie des moulages ), the gallery of wall paintings and stained glass windows ( Galerie des peintures murales et des vitraux ) with reproductions of high-ranking works from historically important buildings and the gallery of modern and contemporary architecture ( Galerie d'architecture modern et contemporaine ).

Other users of the Cité are the Institut français d'architecture and the École de Chaillot , from which scholars receive scholarships that deal with special topics in architecture such as urban planning or restoration .

The Global Award for Sustainable Architecture has been presented annually in the Cité since 2007 in cooperation with UNESCO .

literature

  • François de Mazières (ed.): La Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine . Beaux-Arts Éditions, Paris 2007, ISBN 978-2-84278-556-7 .
  • Simon Texier : L'architecture exposée: La Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine .Déouvertes Gallimard, Paris 2009, ISBN 978-2-07-036046-8 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ It's so green. Aesthetics of the machine: Thomas Herzog's Oskar von Miller Forum in Munich in: FAZ from January 5, 2012

Web links

Commons : Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 '46.2 "  N , 2 ° 17' 18.1"  E