The Musée Albert-Kahn is a departmental museum in
Boulogne-Billancourt
Boulogne-Billancourt (; often colloquially called simply Boulogne, until 1924 Boulogne-sur-Seine, ) is a wealthy and prestigious Communes of France, commune in the western suburbs of Paris, France, located from the Kilometre zero, centre of Paris ...
, France, at 14, Rue du Port, including four hectares of gardens, joining landscape scenes of various national traditions.
With the aim of promoting French banker and philanthropist
Albert Kahn's work, it houses ''
The Archives of the Planet'' collection, built up by Kahn between 1909 and 1931 (72,000 colour photographs on autochrome plates, making it the largest collection of its kind in the world, 184,000 metres, or a hundred hours of black-and-white and colour film, 4,000 black-and-white stereoscopic plates from 50 countries around the world) and a garden of landscape scenes covering almost four hectares, which forms an integral part of the museum's collections.
Since September 2014, construction works are committed for the extension and the refurbishment of the museum supervised by the architect
Kengo Kuma
is a Japanese architect and emeritus professor in the Department of Architecture (Graduate School of Engineering) at the University of Tokyo. Frequently compared to contemporaries Shigeru Ban and Kazuyo Sejima, Kuma is also noted for his prolif ...
with the cooperation of
Ducks Scéno for the construction of another gallery of the exhibition and the renovation of the existing buildings, allowing access to the public in a permanent route.
See also
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List of museums in France
References
External links
Official website
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Museums in Hauts-de-Seine
Musee Albert-Kahn
Biographical museums in France
Photography museums and galleries in France
History museums in France