Carnavalet Museum

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Hotel de Carnavalet

The Musée Carnavalet is a Paris municipal museum in the Marais district , at 23 rue de Sévigné , 3rd arrondissement , dedicated to the history of the city from its origins to the present day. Its name is derived from the Hôtel particulier (city palace) in which it is housed and which has been owned by the City of Paris since 1866.

Hotel Carnavalet

In the years 1548 to 1560, the influential President of the Parlement de Paris (Court of Justice) had this city palace built in the Renaissance style on the newly parceled monastery grounds of the Sainte-Catherine-du-Val-des-Écoliers priory , which aroused the admiration of his contemporaries and today it is the only remaining Paris city palace from the mid-16th century. Even if this cannot be historically proven, it can “almost certainly be attributed to Pierre Lescot ”, but in addition to Lescot, the names of the architects Jean Bullant and Androuet du Cerceau are also mentioned - likewise without evidence . Only known is the “maître maçon” named Nicolas Dupuy, the master bricklayer who was an entrepreneur. It is very likely that Jean Goujon or his workshop was responsible for the sculptural decoration . In the period that followed, the Hôtel Carnavalet was rebuilt three times, including between 1654 and 1660 to designs by François Mansart . This provided “entrance building and galleries with a fully developed upper floor”, but respected the previous building, in particular the main wing, and also the Lescot portal.

The name "Carnavalet" is a corruption of the family name of Françoise de La Baume-Montrevel , widowed Kernevenoch or Kernevenoy, the second owner of the Hôtel Carnavalet.

The most famous resident of the house was the Marquise de Sévigné , who rented it for herself and her daughter's family in 1677 and who lived there until her death in 1696.

collection

The construction of the hotel de Salm . Paris, Carnavalet Museum.

The museum houses Bercy's dugout canoes and exhibits from the Roman Empire to the present day. These include Gothic sculptures , a city model of the Île de la Cité from the 16th century , some pictures of the city from the 17th century, as well as everyday objects from different centuries. The clock collection is a specialty, in which, unlike in most museums, many clocks are also operated. Museum visitors are particularly aware of this on the hour, when the striking mechanisms of the clocks distributed across many salons strike the hour almost simultaneously.

The museum is expected to be closed for renovation until the end of 2019.

Exhibitions

2015: Napoleon et Paris. Rêves d'une capitale . Catalog.

literature

Web links

Commons : Musée Carnavalet  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Blunt, p. 69
  2. ↑ Bussmann, p. 143
  3. ^ Museum website. Retrieved March 20, 2017 .

Coordinates: 48 ° 51 ′ 27 "  N , 2 ° 21 ′ 44"  E