The ''Base Palissy'' is the database of French movable heritage, created and maintained by the
French Ministry of Culture
The Ministry of Culture () is the ministry (government department), ministry of the Government of France in charge of List of museums in France, national museums and the . Its goal is to maintain the French identity through the promotion and pro ...
. It was created in 1989, and placed online in 2002. The database is periodically updated, and contains more than 515,000 entries as of October 2020.
It covers several types of objects: stained glass, paintings, sculptures, religious and civil objects, scientific collections and industrial heritage.
Many, but not all of the described objects are also listed as
historical monuments.
[ The database was named after 16th century potter and writer ]Bernard Palissy
Bernard Palissy (; c. 1510c. 1589) was a Huguenot, French Huguenot pottery, potter, Hydraulics, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain. He is best known for his so-called "rus ...
. In 2005, the Palissy database contained some 280,000 records, including 170,000 for the Inventory and 110,000 for historic monuments. 25,000 entries are illustrated by the Mémoire database. 5,000 complete documentary files are associated with the records.
See also
* Base Mérimée
The ''Base Mérimée'' () is the database of French monumental and architectural heritage, created and maintained by the French Ministry of Culture. It was created in 1978, and placed online in 1995. The database is periodically updated, and conta ...
, database of French monumental and architectural heritage
* List of heritage registers
This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and human-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In ma ...
globally
* Monument historique
() is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which national heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a collection of buildings, ...
, the official classification for French historic monuments
References
External links
Search engine Base Palissy
History websites of France
Government databases in France
1989 establishments in France
Databases in France
Historic sites in France
Heritage registers in France
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