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LVMH to help revive Paris museum

13/03/2017
Luxury group LVMH is to work with the city of Paris to bring back to life a famous museum that has been moth-balled since 2005.

The former National Museum of Folk Arts and Traditions will now become a space dedicated to artists, live performances and to the applied arts and French savoir-faire will form part of its attraction.

Inaugurated in 1975, the museum was closed to the public in 2005 and its collections were transferred to a museum in Marseille in 2013. The complex was designed by architect Jean Dubuisson, a former winner of the Prix de Rome for architecture. Before he died in 2011, Mr Dubuisson expressed a desire to see the complex renovated and returned to its cultural vocation.

This has been delayed until now because of the complexity and high cost of renovation.


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