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 (french: Ministère de la Culture) is the ministry of the Government of France in charge of national museums and the . Its goal is to maintain the French identity through the promotion and protection of the arts (visual, ...
. 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
Prosper Mérimée (; 28 September 1803 – 23 September 1870) was a French writer in the movement of Romanticism, and one of the pioneers of the novella, a short novel or long short story. He was also a noted archaeologist and historian, and a ...
, who published the first survey of historic monuments in 1840.
See also
* Base Palissy The ''Base Palissy'' is the database of French movable heritage, created and maintained by the French Ministry of Culture. It was created in 1989, and placed online in 2002. The database is periodically updated, and contains more than 515,000 entrie ...
, database of French movable heritage
* List of heritage registers
This list is of heritage registers, inventories of cultural properties, natural and man-made, tangible and intangible, movable and immovable, that are deemed to be of sufficient heritage value to be separately identified and recorded. In many ...
globally
* Monument historique
''Monument historique'' () is a designation given to some national heritage sites in France. It may also refer to the state procedure in France by which National Heritage protection is extended to a building, a specific part of a building, a coll ...
, 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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