Journées du Patrimoine 2024 in Paris: the Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé Foundation

Thanks to the European Heritage Days, discover unique cultural sites for free. Since 1984, all over France and Europe, places that are sometimes closed to the public or subject to a charge have become free and accessible to all, two days a year, in September. It's a unique event that's met with great success every year. And for their 40th edition, the Journées du Patrimoine will take place on Saturday September 21 and Sunday September 22, 2024.

Discover the complete program of the Journées du Patrimoine in Paris and Île-de-France :

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The Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé was launched in 2006, but the building that houses it opened in 2014. Behind the façade sculpted by Auguste Rodin around 1869, architect Renzo Piano built a five-storey shell covered with 5,000 protective shutters. This is where the Foundation's headquarters are located, where numerous researchers work to preserve and make available to the public the historical heritage of the Pathé company, one of the very first companies dedicated to cinema. The Foundation invites Parisians to discover its history during the Journées du Patrimoine, on Saturday and Sunday, September 21 and 22, 2024.

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The program for the Journées du Patrimoine at the Fondation Seydoux in 2024:

• Self-guided tour of the Galerie des collections
  September 21 and 22
  

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  The Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé celebrates its 10th anniversary in the building designed by Renzo Piano! Through seven emblematic projects located in and around Paris, the Foundation examines the Genoese architect's vision of the ideal city.
  When he entered a competition with Richard Rogers in 1971 for a project for a museum of modern art, did Renzo Piano know that, in the space of half a century, he would be endowing the capital with the fundamental institutions that define living together? In the space of fifty years, the Renzo Piano Building Workshop agency has created a residential building, a school, a courthouse, three cultural institutions, a cinema and a hospital in the Ile-de-France landscape, interweaving its light-filled, green constructions in forests of stone and wasteland alike. Fifty years of challenges, research and innovation also tell the story of his vision of the city: a space that serves the common good, that uplifts, protects and brings people together.
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  The Foundation presents its latest poster acquisitions. The selection, which focuses on pieces produced in the 20th century, mainly in France and the United States, completes an already rich collection of 6,000 items. While highlighting the codes specific to film promotion, this collection also showcases a diversity of periods, as well as the signatures at work to promote a title, a genre or a brand.

  
  
  
• Self-guided tour of Renzo Piano's building
  September 21 and 22
  

  The Fondation Jérôme Seydoux-Pathé, recognized as a public utility in 2006, works to preserve and make available to the public the historical heritage of the Pathé company. Behind the façade sculpted by Auguste Rodin around 1869, architect Renzo Piano built a five-storey shell covered with 5,000 protective shutters. Raised in the middle of a garden, the contemporary building was inaugurated in September 2014 and now houses the Foundation's new headquarters. The now-famous glass shell on the 5th floor houses the offices and reception area for researchers.
  This area is exceptionally open to the public during the European Heritage Days.

  
  
  
• Silent film screenings as ciné-concert
  September 21 and 22
  

  The Salle Charles Pathé, dedicated to silent films throughout the year, will be showing a program of Pathé films digitized by the Pathé Foundation over the two days, demonstrating the variety of the catalog (approx. 30-minute screenings).
  The screenings will be accompanied on piano by students from Jean-François Zygel's improvisation class at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris.