This is one of the Hauts-de-Seine department's most cherished heritage sites, which you can visit free of charge during the Journées du Patrimoine 2024. The Musée Albert-Kahn and its gardens, housed in the former residence of banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn in Boulogne-Billancourt, welcome us on Saturday September 21 and Sunday September 22, 2024. Built by landscape architect Achille Duchêne on a four-hectare site in Boulogne-Billancourt, the site is an architectural and landscaped gem.
Musée départemental Albert-Kahn: the travel and photography collection
Head to the Albert-Kahn Museum to discover its newly renovated spaces. An opportunity to discover the new setting in which the philanthropist's collections are exhibited. [Read more]
The Musée Albert Kahn, which has just reopened its doors, unveils sublime gardens that are a must-see. Conceived as a scenic garden, this 4-hectare space features a magnificent Japanese garden and village, an English garden, a French garden and forests and meadows. A complete change of scenery. [Read more]
An opportunity to learn more about the place and Albert Kahn, a colorful character. He founded Les Archives de la Planète, a company responsible for immortalizing the world's jewels in autochrome (the first color photographs). Albert Kahn was also passionate about plants. He therefore wanted to create a garden open to the public, showcasing every garden style in the world. In all, 6 gardens provide an exhaustive presentation of the art of gardening: a French garden, a Japanese garden with its tea pavilion, an English garden, a Vosges forest, a blue forest with its central marsh and a golden forest with its birch trees.
When it went bankrupt in 1932, the residence was seized, but was soon bought by the Prefecture of the Seine, which wished to continue welcoming the public to the gardens. The mansion was then converted into a museum, to display a fine selection of the 72,000 autochromes and thousands of hours of film produced by the ten photographers hired by Albert Kahn.
A projection in the heart of the museum invites you to discover the festival's photographic series in a different way: from Sanna Kannisto's portable studio to the testimonies of the English photographed by Daniel Meadows.
"Observing Eye" by Sanna Kanisto
"Now and Then" by Daniels Meadows
Explore the museum's landscape garden with a mediator and a gardener. Discover how Albert Kahn designed his garden, and how today, in the face of climate change, the garden must combine historical conservation with environmental preservation.
For its first edition, the photographic festival Mondes en Commun, poursuivre l'inventaire d'Albert Kahn invites you to discover 11 photographers united around a single theme: the visual inventory of the world and its variations present in the museum's collections.
The artists and series presented for the 2024 edition:
- Thierry Ardouin (France) - Histoires de graines (Prix des Amis 2024)
- Aurore Bagarry (France) - Glaciers
- Maryam Firuzi (Iran) - In the shadows of silent women
- Nicolas Floc'h (France) - Initium maris
- Sanna Kannisto (Finland) - Observing eye
- Daniel Meadows (Great-Bretagne) - The free photographic Omnibus
- Yan Morvan (France) - Champs de Bataille
- Bertrand Stofleth (France) - Atlantides / Hyperlendemains / Recoller la montagne
- Eric Tabuchi & Nelly Monnier (France) - Atlas des Régions Naturelles
- Anaïs Tondeur (France) - Tchernobyl Herbarium
- Antonio Jimenez Saiz (Belgium) - Felix
The Félix project, started ten years ago by Antonio Jiménez Saiz, takes a more offbeat approach, bringing together over four hundred photographs of posters of cats lost in Brussels. This practice is one of the last modes of free, intimate and non-advertising display in public space. Born of the democratization of personal printers, it is now tending to disappear in favor of online advertising and social networks. This singular inventory explores the inevitability of erasure, of the image - these heart-rending cries for help disappear under the effect of bad weather - and of a popular creative practice rendered obsolete by the digitization of the world.
Immerse yourself in the world of Antonio Jimenez Saiz for the duration of a fanzine workshop. Using images from his Félix inventory series, create your own inventory edition of lost cats.
Throughout the afternoon, join the mediators from the Musée Départemental Albert-Kahn for historical and botanical exchanges! The museum's new permanent exhibition is spread over the 4 hectares of the philanthropist-banker's former estate, combining exhibition space and landscape scenes. Let chance be your guide: draw an image from among those suggested by your mediators and trigger a visit.
In the "Chernobyl Herbarium" series, Anaïs Tondeur composes rayograms of plants grown in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Led by the team of bio-geneticist Martin Hajduch, the experiment studies the impact of radioactivity.
Have you heard of the Salon des Familles at the Musée Départemental Albert-Kahn?
Free and friendly, this area is open to all, offering you a chance to relax with your children. Take advantage of the presence of a mediator to discover the museum's collections: writing games, card games and readings to share with the whole family.
In the "Chernobyl Herbarium" series, Anaïs Tondeur composes rayograms of plants grown in the Chernobyl exclusion zone. Conducted by the team of bio-geneticist Martin Hajduch, the experiment studies the impact of radioactivity.
Families are invited to create photographs from the plants, using Anaïs Tondeur's technique. Using the phenol in plants, they leave their imprint on photosensitive paper.
There's a place for everyone at the museum! Parents and babies use their senses to awaken to art and marvel at shapes and colors. The mediator guides you through the images of Albert Kahn's world for a memorable moment of sharing.
Discover the temporary exhibition, Natures Vivantes, which highlights Albert Kahn's passion for the plant world.
On this tour, explore the convergence of science, cinema, color and poetry in a Japanese-inspired context, highlighting horticulture and a passion for gardening.
Meet the museum's professionals and discover the Albert Kahn collections. Join us for a discussion on how to preserve and promote this heritage today.
The Musée Départemental Albert-Kahn invites you to an exceptional meeting with photographer Jean Gaumy, patron of the first edition of the Mondes en Commun festival, on the theme of maritime heritage.
This meeting will be held in partnership with the Musée de la Marine and will explore the imaginary of the sea through photography, offering a dialogue on the representation of maritime landscapes and naval activities in the Archives de la Planète, the collections of the Musée de la Marine and the work of Jean Gaumy.
Moderated by Clémence Laurent, head of collections at the Musée de la Marine, the meeting will bring together Jean Gaumy, photographer, Marine Desormeau, head of collections at the Musée de la Marine, and Denis-Michel Boëll, art historian and former heritage curator.
Dates and Opening Time
From September 21, 2024 to September 22, 2024
Location
Albert-Kahn Museum
2 Rue du Port
92100 Boulogne Billancourt
Prices
Free
Musée départemental Albert-Kahn: the travel and photography collection
The Albert Kahn Museum's superb Japanese garden and other gardens that take us on a journey
