The ''Base Mérimée'' () is the database of French monumental and
architectural 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 1978, and placed online in 1995. The database is periodically updated, and contains more than 320,000 entries as of October 2020.
It covers religious, domestic, agricultural, educational, military and industrial architecture, and is subdivided into three domains:
historical monuments, general inventory, and architecture (including remarkable contemporary architecture).
[ The database was named after writer, historian and inspector-general of historical monuments Prosper Mérimée, who published the first survey of historic monuments in 1840.]
See also
* Base Palissy, database of French movable 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
* , the official classification for French historic monuments
References
External links
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Search engine Base Mérimée
History websites of France
Government databases in France
Prosper Mérimée
1978 establishments in France
Architecture databases
Databases in France
Historic sites in France
Heritage registers in France
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