The secrets of the Treasure of Notre-Dame de Paris revealed in a new setting

A museum of the work of Notre-Dame?

“We were struck by the enthusiasm that the idea of ​​creating a museum of the work of the cathedral aroused among the hundred people we interviewed”, explained in committee to the National Assembly, in June 2024, Charles Personnaz, director of the National Heritage Institute, and Jonathan Truillet, science and heritage assistant at the public establishment Rebâtir Notre-Dame de Paris. Both had been tasked by the President of the Republic with establishing a precise preliminary report to launch the project.

The aim of such a museum will be to contribute to a good reception of visitors, who will be able to wait before entering the monument, or extend their visit. It will allow a better understanding of the cathedral, its history and the neighborhood.

Finally, its collections will bear witness to traditions, developments in worship, and will even preserve the trace of the fire and the memory of the restoration site: sculptures found from the rood screen, paintings and Mays painted for Notre-Dame and today scattered in different museums, stained glass windows from the 1930s commissioned then very quickly deposited… There is no shortage of ideas to create a quality fun and educational journey” which is also a showcase of artistic crafts and heritage. The rapporteurs pleaded for that this museum be set up on the square in front of the cathedral, in a vacated wing of the current Hôtel-Dieu And, while awaiting a presidential decision and ambitious work, the tandem is offering a more modest, but visible, prefiguration exhibition. from 2026