The Réunion des Musées Nationaux (; abbr. RMN) is a French cultural umbrella organisation, an
établissement public à caractère industriel et commercial (EPIC), formed in 2011, through the merger of the Paris National Museums and the
Grand Palais
The (; ), commonly known as the , is a historic site, exhibition hall and museum complex located in the 8th arrondissement of Paris between the Champs-Élysées and the Seine, France. Construction of the began in 1897 following the demolitio ...
.
Its genesis came about in 1896, under the leadership of the French statesmen
Raymond Poincaré
Raymond Nicolas Landry Poincaré (; 20 August 1860 – 15 October 1934) was a French statesman who served as President of France from 1913 to 1920, and three times as Prime Minister of France. He was a conservative leader, primarily committed to ...
and
Georges Leygues, with the aim of purchasing works of art for national collections. The institution has three current directives: the welcoming of the public, the organizing of temporary exhibitions, and the holding of exhibitions and its permanent collections.
On 1 January 2011 the Réunion des Musées Nationaux merged with the public establishment of the
Grand Palais des Champs-Élysées, which had been created in 2007. The new public institution is now governed by decree no 2011-52 of 13 January 2011.
The RMN is responsible for 34 national museums. Two statutes exist for these national museums; most are also public institutions with legal and financial autonomy. The others are services with national jurisdiction (), attached to the Museums Department of France ().
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External links
Official websiteRmn-Grand Palais at Google Cultural Institute
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