Every year, the Journées du Patrimoine (Heritage Days ) take place in Paris, and the least we can say is that it's THE event not to be missed in the Ile-de-France cultural calendar. Even though the Journées du Patrimoine take place all over France, Paris is home to the most visited monuments: the Senate, theNational Assembly, certain ministries... All of which are extremely popular, since these places of power only open their doors once a year, on these very special days. However, the rest of theÎle-de-France regionand the Paris suburbs are not to be outdone, with visits and events on offer in every corner of the region.
In the Seine-Saint-Denis department, Montreuil is one of the cities most appreciated for its living environment and proximity to Paris. With its rich industrial heritage, Montreuil's heritage is as rich as it is varied, as the town is also famous for its film studios. Discover Montreuil from every angle during the 41st European Heritage Days, from September 20 to 21, 2025!
Heritage Days 2025 at Montreuil's 1st archery company
We invite you to visit Montreuil's oldest Compagnie d'Arc, founded in 1811 and established on rue Gaston Lauriau just as long ago.
Heritage Days 2025 at the Centre d'art contemporain Tignous in Montreuil
"Ten years after the death of Tignous, and three years after the great Tignous Forever exhibition, I wanted to go beyond the forever and offer Tignous eternity. Far from commemorations, grief, hatred and revenge. An eternal Tignous that resembles him: a demanding and flamboyant contemporary artist, funny and profoundly tender, who left his mark on his era and will inspire generations to come, for the better!
The concept of the exhibition is a series of invitations in the form of dialogues, with some fifteen personalities: artists, authors, people from the art world and committed personalities, who will be transcribed in the form of a sound podcast in front of each hanging.
The guest is also invited to lend one of his or her personal works, or to make a reproduction, or to lend a narrative object (a work belonging to him or her) in relation to the text of the interview, with Tignous, with his story or their meeting, etc. The choice of guests is linked to their common history, their sensibility and the relationship they had with Tignous, in order to propose a collective history and a sharing of current views and a great contemporary art exhibition."
1. Aurel, cartoonist, illustrator
2. Pascal Gros, press cartoonist,
3. Catherine Meurisse, artist, press cartoonist
4. C215, visual artist,
5. Tryo (Daniel Bravo), musician and composer
6. Michel Zoladz, photographer, former professor of photography at ENSAD
7. Emmanuelle Haïm, conductor
8. Patrice Bessac, politician, Mayor of Montreuil
9. Rima Abdul-Malak, politician, former Minister of Culture, activist, former admin. Clowns sans frontières
10. Isabelle Autissier, sailor
11. Serge Orru, former director of WWF and Climate Academy
12. Fabienne Kriegel, former publisher at Editions Chêne, gallery owner
13. Jean-Marie Laclavetine, publisher and novelist
14. Catherine Siné, publishing director of the now-defunct "Siné Mensuel".
15. Jacques Glénat, publisher, author
16 - Gustave Kervern, director/screenwriter
Exhibition on view from September 5 to October 25.
Heritage Days 2025 behind the scenes at RATP in Montreuil
Guided tour of the signage workshop and the locksmith's workshop, where the maintenance of architectural elements, including those by Guimard and Othoniel, will be presented.
Visit approx. 45min-1h
Heritage Days 2025 at Saint-Pierre Saint-Paul church in Montreuil
From the Saint-Pierre-Saint-Paul church, site of the monastery that probably gave its name to the town, to the town hall, home to Charles Fouqueray's frescoes attesting to Montreuil's revolutionary past, to Georges Méliès' former Star Film studios, site of the world's biggest blockbuster of their time, to the Chapal factories, once Europe's leading center for furs, and many other traces of the past... Discover the thousand-year-old history of Montreuil.
During this stroll, which lasts just under 2 hours, we'll open the doors of the town hall to admire the works of art that adorn its former council chamber and hall.
Thomas Stehlin will follow a chronological thread retracing the episodes of a commune with an atypical past, yet closely linked to the history of France.
Architectures in Seine-Saint-Denis, season 1
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### Historic monuments in Seine-Saint-Denis
From the Middle Ages to the 20th century, the Seine-Saint-Denis region was home to a wide variety of buildings. Whether through their construction techniques, the materials used, the use of pioneering or innovative building models, or the renown of their architects, they are all part of our cultural heritage today.
The Grange aux Dîmes in Tremblay-en-France, the Church of the Old Carmel in Saint-Denis, the Château de Saint-Ouen and the Poudrerie in Sevran are just some of the Monuments Historiques on offer.
Watch all "Architectures en Seine-Saint-Denis" videos on the **YouTube**channel of the Département de la Seine-Saint-Denis.
Heritage Days 2025 at the Montreuil water towers
Panorama des châteaux d'eau de Seine-Saint-Denis is a project that invites you to (re)discover the history of the département through its water towers, from your phone, computer or tablet.
Designed for all audiences, this fun tour is based on intergenerational conversations, photographs, postcards, videos and quizzes. It enables Sequano-Dionysians to take a fresh look at their territory, exploring its past and its evolution through these monuments as emblematic as they are little-known.
In their own way, water towers tell the story of Seine-Saint-Denis: memories of the past, present-day issues and architectural witnesses to the territory's evolution.
Association les Châteaux d'eau de France
www.chateauxdeau.fr
Panorama des châteaux d'eau de Seine-Saint-Denis is a project that invites you to (re)discover the history of the département through its water towers, from your phone, computer or tablet.
Designed for all audiences, this fun tour is based on intergenerational conversations, photographs, postcards, videos and quizzes. It enables Sequano-Dionysians to take a fresh look at their territory, exploring its past and its evolution through these monuments as emblematic as they are little-known.
In their own way, water towers tell the story of Seine-Saint-Denis: memories of the past, present-day issues and architectural witnesses to the territory's evolution.
Association les Châteaux d'eau de France
www.chateauxdeau.fr
Heritage Days 2025 at the CGT Complex in Montreuil
The CGT complex at Porte de Montreuil opened in 1982. Designed by arch-architects Claude Le Goas and Serge Lana, it is a fine example of structuralist architecture: a vast, proliferating sheet of fabric is intended to allow constant exchanges and maximum flexibility around the vast climatic patio.
Tours provided by CGT.
Heritage Days 2025 at the Murs à Pêches house in Montreuil
The City of Montreuil invites you to take part in this visit, which is part of its project to enhance and preserve the Murs à Pêches site, while at the same time opening up this natural area to the public.
Your guides will take you along these paths and tell you about the history of these walls, a legacy of trellised fruit tree cultivation: thanks to them, montreuillois horticulturists were able to produce peaches in an unfavorable climate, supplying the Halles markets until the early 20th century. At their peak, the peach orchards covered a third of the city, i.e. over 300 hectares, with 300 km of walls!
The guides also talk about the issues involved in the gradual restoration of the site, which is listed as a site and landscape by the French Ministry of Culture: the restoration of the walls, co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund and the Fondation du Patrimoine - Mission Stéphane Bern, as well as the development of the biodiversity trails, a project led by the local authority to create a network of pedestrian paths providing access to the heart of this natural area.
And then, between the walls, you'll discover the gardens, several of which have been awarded the "remarkable gardens" label, as well as the variety of associative activities on the site.
By Bruno Granozio.
A better understanding of soil for better soil conservation!
For the third year running, the town is offering a series of events to help you learn more about urban soils. Several workshops will be run by teams from Cerema, SecurAgri and the city's environment department.
Garden soil analysis workshop
Gardeners (associations, residents) will have the opportunity to have soil samples from their garden analyzed. To do so, they will take soil samples themselves, following a simple protocol drawn up by Cerema. These samples will be analyzed on site, within the capacity of Cerema's equipment.
The city's environment department will also be on hand to present, with its partner SecurAgri, the approach developed in 11 plots at Murs-à-Pêches to maintain and develop urban agriculture in a context of polluted soils.
Heritage Days 2025 at the Museum of Living History in Montreuil
The Musée de l'Histoire Vivante (Living History Museum) will be offering a tour of the site, now a museum of working-class history and once a bourgeois house, as well as an artistic workshop on the theme of anti-discrimination.
Heritage Days 2025 at Mozinor in Montreuil
Mozin'Arts, multidisciplinary art days
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Mozin'Arts unfolds in Mozinor's hanging gardens, like a labyrinthine, unpredictable trail, featuring works created in situ: sculptures, installations, photographs, performances, concerts and workshop-laboratories.
Disciplines intersect, French and international scenes intertwine, and generations engage in dialogue. The project affirms a desire to break down barriers and bring together institutional artists and fringe figures, collectives and amateurs, art students and self-taught artists.
Initiated by visual artist Véronique Bourgoin and musician-composer Jeanne Susin, and supported by La Fabrique des illusions, the first edition of Mozin'Arts took place in September 2024, as part of the European Heritage Days. This contemporary art event drew almost 4,000 visitors and more than sixty artists, and presented an ensemble of around one hundred and fifty works, accompanied by 11 concerts, 4 performances and 6 workshops.
Mozin'Arts is a vehicle for questioning contemporary issues, testing the potential of art as resistance, transformation and reparation. The public is invited to stroll along the entire roof terrace, where works of art, concerts, performances, meeting spaces, workshops and mediation take place.
The installation program, curated by Véronique Bourgoin in collaboration with artists, independent curators, institutions and Royal Book Lodge, offers a fertile dialogue between media.
For the 2025 edition, young visual artist Popline Fichot has been given carte blanche to bring together thirteen artists from the emerging French scene for a collective site-specific installation project. The Bibliothèque Kandinsky - the research and resource center of the Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Pompidou - will take over the library-boat designed by matali crasset, inviting the public to explore a selection of artists' archives and books. At the same time, the Box Crew breakdance collective will be running participatory hip-hop workshops open to all, while designer Alioune Ménard will be presenting a fashion show showcasing his latest creations.
MOZIN'ARTS WORKSHOPS
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### In-situ workshops
Hip-hop dance workshop, led by BoxCrew, September 2025 - 2pm-3pm and 5pm-6.30pm
Hip-hop dance and urban landscape workshops by Boxcrew. This inclusive workshop, suitable for all ages and audiences, encourages intergenerational exchange and offers participants an introduction to hip-hop dance.
Screen-printing workshop, led by Marius Chudeau and Chloé Duffaud, in partnership with Atelier des Lilas, September 20, 2025 - 3pm-5pm
A participatory textile workshop where everyone can leave with a unique piece!
Using second-hand textiles, the public is invited to experiment with the screen-printing technique during this supervised workshop. Each person creates their own print, on the material of their choice. Second-hand t-shirts and tote bags will be available for sale, but any flat material will do.
Print for €5
Print + piece (from our stock of second-hand t-shirts and tote bags) at 10€.
These workshops are offered as part of the Mozin'Arts contemporary art event taking place on September 19, 20 and 21 in the hanging gardens of the Mozinor industrial estate in Montreuil.
Further information: www.mozinarts.com
Instagram @mozinarts
Heritage Days 2025 at the Murs à Pêches meadow in Montreuil
On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, come and discover an exceptional site thanks to guided tours of the Murs à Pêches 🍑 site. Tours are organized every 2 hours, with departures at 12pm, 2pm, 4pm and 6pm. These tours are an opportunity to discover the history of the site, explore Montreuil's horticultural heritage and the rich biodiversity of this preserved area. Younger visitors can fish for clues in a specially designed treasure hunt.
Heritage Days 2025 at the Georges Méliès student residence in Montreuil
This polyptych by Guillaume Bottazzi is in five parts. It illuminates the cathedral entrance to the Georges Méliès residence in Montreuil. Two other works by the artist have also been created on this site.
These works are part of a global approach that integrates various site-specific parameters, such as their height of over 5 meters. They are made from enamels, a natural material made from powdered minerals. The atmospheric quality of this creation facilitates our reconstruction, inducing us to travel into an unreal, enchanting universe that evolves according to our imagination.
Visible to passers-by from Avenue Faidherbe, this work can modulate new neurons.
2025 is the year of mental health, and visual artist Guillaume Bottazzi invites us on a gigantic artistic journey with 86 heritage artworks to be discovered all over France as part of the 42nd European Heritage Days. 61 of these are in Paris and the Greater Paris area.
Guillaume Bottazzi is recognized as a pioneer of neuroesthetics, which brings neurobiology and art into our environment to help improve our mental health and reduce social tensions.
The artist has created over a hundred heritage works in Europe, the United States, China and Japan, commissioned by cities, museums and architects. They are part of the architectural heritage of the places where they are located.
Official website of Guillaume Bottazzi
Heritage Days 2025 at the Théâtre des Roches in Montreuil
Architectural tour of the Théâtre des Roches, its history, the different lives of the building and the role of its architect in the town's history.
This building was constructed between 1928 and 1932 by local architect Florent Nanquette, author of numerous buildings in Montreuil, to house a crèche and peri-natal consultation center, thanks to a substantial bequest to the city.
Highly publicized at the time for its exemplary character, the current Théâtre des Roches is a representative example of modernist and hygienist architecture.
Tour routes in Montreuil:
Take an urban stroll between Croix de Chavaux and La Noue in search of Montreuil's living walls, an exemplary example of collaboration between an architect and visual artists in the design of neighborhoods built during the "trente glorieuses".
Come and discover the lives of women from all walks of life: resistance fighters, political activists, teachers, writers, adventurers, militant feminists or visual artists...
Known, little-known or unknown, they have given their names to streets, squares, alleyways and public buildings...
By the SAXIfragettes association.
Come and discover the lives of women from all walks of life: resistance fighters, political activists, teachers, writers, adventurers, militant feminists or visual artists...
Known, little-known or unknown, they have given their names to streets, squares, alleyways and public buildings...
Long live JEP in the 93!
Dates and Opening Time
From September 20, 2025 to September 21, 2025
Location
Montreuil
93100 Montreuil
93100 Montreuil
Official website
www.montreuil.fr
