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
The Trocadéro (), site of the Palais de Chaillot, is an area of Paris, France, in the 16th arrondissement, across the Seine from the Eiffel Tower. It is also the name of the 1878 palace which was demolished in 1937 to make way for the Palais ...
), in
Paris
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, France. Its permanent collection is also known as
Musée national des monuments français (National Museum of French Monuments). It was established in 1879 by
Eugène Viollet-le-Duc
Eugène Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (; 27 January 181417 September 1879) was a French architect and author who restored many prominent medieval landmarks in France, including those which had been damaged or abandoned during the French Revolution. ...
. The museum was renovated in 2007 and covers 9,000 square meters of gallery space. 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
Stained glass is coloured glass as a material or works created from it. Throughout its thousand-year history, the term has been applied almost exclusively to the windows of churches and other significant religious buildings. Although traditio ...
es from French
Romanesque and
Gothic churches.
* Galerie moderne et contemporaine:
models 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 launch in 2006 by the architect and professor
Jana Revedin. 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
*
Architecture museums
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings o ...
References
External links
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Museums in Paris
Architecture museums
Art museums established in 2007
2007 establishments in France
Buildings and structures in the 16th arrondissement of Paris