On the side of Parisian museums

The National Marine Museum, which has been undergoing renovation and reconfiguration since 2017, is preparing to offer a new route. More than nine hundred pieces (scientific and technical objects, models, photographs, sculptures, paintings, furniture) will be exhibited. The museum will offer a new fish and shellfish restaurant in priority and, to get into the atmosphere upon arrival, the visitor will be welcomed by a marine fragrance Sillage de mer, designed by Nathalie Lorson, master perfumer at Firmenich, in collaboration with the Magic Studio. The permanent exhibition galleries of the National Museum of the History of Immigration will also be reopened to the public after being the subject of work and a museum redesign. Archive documents, photographs, objects, works of art… The approach will be chronological, with sections organized around key dates ranging from 1685 to the present day. As the name suggests, the Bourdelle Museum houses works by the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929), author of the famous Héraklès archer. The presentation of its collections has been redesigned. Including the artist’s studio and the gardens, it was equipped with a café-restaurant called Le Rhodia (first name of Bourdelle’s daughter).