For several years, the Musée de l'Éventail has been struggling to face the future, between petty cash and debts to its landlord. With the risk of losing anexceptional collection of 15,000 pieces and archives, a real heritage treasure. But fortunately, the situation has just taken a positive turn, thanks to the purchase at the end of March of the museum's entire collection by the inter-municipality of Méru, in the Oise region. In the future, it will be possible to find the fans in the Musée de la Nacre et de la Tabletterie!
Anne Hoguet, master craftsman, to whom the museum belonged after four generations in her family, was keen to keep all the fans in the same place. The Musée des Arts Décoratifs and the Palais Galliera had shown interest, but only wanted a few pieces back. The Musée de la Nacre, on the other hand, is recovering the entire collection to enlarge its space, in a coherent way since the structure of the fans is made of mother-of-pearl!
Both museum and workshop, it was one of the three remaining fan workshops and the only dedicated museum in France. Finally, the fans will benefit from a return to their roots, since Joseph Hoguet Duroyaume had set up his fan workshop in Sainte-Geneviève in the Oise region, the cradle of tabletterie. In their new setting, the pieces of the collection, the workbenches, the exhibition room and the working tools will be recreated identically.
It will now take several years to find this collection, only a few kilometers from the capital.
Location
Musée de l'Eventail
2, boulevard de Strasbourg
75010 Paris 10
