Visit of the Hotel de Vendôme - Ecole des Mines - Library and Museum

Name: Visit of the Hotel de Vendôme - Ecole des Mines - Library and Museum
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Hôtel de Vendôme - Mines Paris PSL

Visit of the Vendôme hotel, the library and the mineralogy museum of the Ecole Mines Paris - PSL

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Entry upon registration

Registration

Mines Paris PSL

Since 1815, the Ecole des Mines has been located in the Vendôme hotel, which expanded in the 19th and early 20th centuries. You will be able to discover the reading room and its glass roof, the library offices decorated with period woodwork; the 5,000 minerals, rocks, precious stones, meteorites of the collections of the mineralogy museum exhibited in a gallery of 80 meters long; the facade, terrace and garden of the Hotel de Vendôme.

About the location

Hôtel de Vendôme - Mines Paris PSL

60 boulevard Saint Michel

Île-de-France

The Hotel de Vendôme was built in 1707 by the architect Le Blond for the Chartreux, on the edge of Rue d'Enfer. It houses the engineering school Mines Paris - PSL, a mineralogy museum, the first in the world as a systematic collection, a first-class heritage library.