Free visit or accompanied by mediation by students in archaeology, art history and heritage

Name: Free visit or accompanied by mediation by students in archaeology, art history and heritage
Start: 2023-09-16T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA) - Galerie Colbert

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the two sites of the National Institute of Art History, the Colbert Gallery, former shopping gallery, and the prestigious Labroust Room...

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free entry

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, the two sites of the National Institute of Art History, the Colbert gallery, former shopping mall, and the prestigious Labrouste room, library of the National Institute of Art History, designed by the architect Henri Labrouste are accessible by free visit or accompanied by mediation by students in archaeology, art history and heritage. Visitors will be able to discover the little-known history of the Parisian passage that is the Colbert gallery. In the library, the public will admire the spectacular reading room with its ceramics and painted decorations, medallions decorated with gold leaf, monumental caryatids or the pneumatic installed in 1932.
Practical information Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September 10h - 18h Free access
Institut national d'histoire de l'art - galerie Colbert Entrance: 6 rue des Petits Champs Exit: 2 rue Vivienne 75002 Paris
Bibliothèque de l’Institut national d’histoire de l’art – salle Labrouste Entrance: 5 rue Vivienne 75002 Paris

About the location

Institut national d'histoire de l'art (INHA) - Galerie Colbert

6 rue des Petits Champs 75002 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

Created to federate research in art history, the National Institute of Art History (INHA) consists of a unique research and resource centre in the world in the field of art history. It operates on two heritage sites, very close to each other, and located in the heart of Paris: the Colbert former shopping gallery of the nineteenth century, and the Labrouste room within the Richelieu site. The INHA opens the doors of its places usually accessible to researchers and seizes this year’s theme to organize various animations that will be as many times for the public to better understand the meaning and the stakes of art history.
In the Colbert gallery, visitors will be able to go freely to meet the history of art, while discovering the particularities of this Parisian passage. And discover his countless resources in the library designed by Henri Labrouste in the 19th century.