Suggest a change on the locationMusée de l'Air et de l'Espace
3 esplanade de l’Air et de l’Espace, 93350 Le Bourget, France
Seine-Saint-Denis
Île-de-France
Replacing a first terminal, a set of small pavilions built between 1922 and 1926, the current Le Bourget terminal was built for the Ministry of Air, after competition, by the architect Georges Labro. Started in 1936, it was inaugurated on November 12, 1937\. The building, 233 meters long, parallel to the tracks and the road of Flanders, is seriously damaged by the bombings of 1944\. It was rebuilt from 1946 to 1952, with some modifications, by the same architect, in collaboration with the Paris Airport. The central part of the facade on the "city" side is adorned with female statues symbolizing the continents, due to the sculptor Armand Martial. North of the terminal, five reinforced concrete hangars (unprotected), designed by engineer Henri Lossier in 1922 and doubled in depth in 1932, were partially rebuilt after the last war. Since 1973, the terminal, the only French survivor of its generation, houses the collections of the Air and Space Museum.
Tags
Musée de France, Monument historique
Access
By car, bus or 2 wheels: Take the A1 from Paris-Porte de La Chapelle. Exit 5 "Aéroport du Bourget". Come by bus Take the line 610, 350, 152 or 148, get off at the stop "Musée de l'Air et de l'Espace". By metro: Take line 7 – get off at "La Courneuve" station then the bus line 152\. On the RER: Take the RER B – get off at "Le Bourget" station then the bus line 152.
©Ministère de la Culture (France), Médiathèque du patrimoine et de la photographie
