The Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine (, ''Architecture and Heritage City'') is a museum of
architecture
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and monumental
sculpture
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located in the
Palais de Chaillot (
Trocadéro), in
Paris
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, France. Its permanent collection is also known as
Musée national des monuments français
The Musée national des Monuments Français (; ) is today a museum of plaster casts of French monuments located in the Palais de Chaillot, 1, place du Trocadéro et du 11 Novembre, Paris, France. It now forms part of the Cité de l'Architectur ...
(National Museum of French Monuments). It was established in 1879 by
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. The museum was renovated in 2007 and covers 9,000 square meters of gallery space. As a whole, the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine spreads across 22,000 square meters, which makes it the largest museum devoted to
architecture
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in the world, even surpassing the
Design Museum
The Design Museum in Kensington, London, England, exhibits product, industrial, graphic, fashion, and architectural design. In 2018, the museum won the European Museum of the Year Award. The museum operates as a registered charity, and all fund ...
of
London
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.
Alongside temporary exhibitions, it is made of three permanent exhibits :
* Galerie des moulages: casts of monumental French architecture from the 12th to the 18th centuries, such as
portals of
cathedral
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s.
* Galerie des peintures murales et des vitraux: copies of
mural
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Word mural in art
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s and
stained glass
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es from French
Romanesque and
Gothic churches.
* Galerie moderne et contemporaine:
models
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Models can be divided int ...
of French and international architecture from 1850 to the present day.
The Cité also houses:
* the
Institut français d'architecture (French Institute of Architecture), for the promotion of French architecture and contemporary architects.
* the
École de Chaillot (School of Chaillot) founded in 1887 for the training of architects specialising in the restoration of
historical monuments.
* a library of architecture
The Cité supported the
Global Award for Sustainable Architecture
The Global Award for Sustainable Architecture is an international architecture founded in 2006 by architect and scholar Jana Revedin.
Description
Each year, the award honors five architects who "contribute to a more equitable and sustainable d ...
launch in 2006 by the architect and professor
Jana Revedin
Jana Revedin is a German scholar, researcher, architect and professor thereof.
Born in Konstanz, Germany, Revedin has a degree from the Polytechnic University of Milan and a Doctor of Architecture from Università Iuav di Venezia. Having previ ...
. Placed under the patronage of the
UNESCO
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from 2010, the prize is awarded to 5 architects every year since 2007, at the Cité.
Gallery
File:Cité de lArchitecture et du Patrimoine 2008 001.jpg, Gallery of French monuments
File:Galerie des moulages.jpg, Gallery of French monuments
File:Cité de l'architecture 037.jpg, Gallery of murals
File:Cité de lArchitecture et du Patrimoine 2008 007.jpg, Gallery of modern and contemporary architecture
See also
*
List of museums in Paris
*
List of largest art museums
Art museums are some of the largest buildings in the world. The world's most pre-eminent museums have also engaged in various expansion projects through the years, expanding their total exhibition space.
List
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*
Architecture museums
References
External links
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Museums in Paris
Architecture museums
Art museums and galleries established in 2007
2007 establishments in France
Buildings and structures in the 16th arrondissement of Paris
Architecture libraries
Architecture of Paris