On September 20 and 21, 2025, put away the "déjà vu" and treat yourself to a life-size culture shoot. The European Heritage Days are back with a promise: to turn every street corner into a time machine! Their mission? To break the routine and get you to push open the doors of iconic and rarely accessible places - castles, museums, emblematic institutions or quirky addresses - all free of charge. Two days to marvel, look up, capture tales of the past and dive into European art, architecture and heritage like never before.
Heritage Days 2025: craft and know-how sites in Paris and the Île-de-France region
The Journées du Patrimoine (Heritage Days) are coming to Paris and the Ile-de-France region this weekend, September 20-21, 2025. How would you like to take advantage of this opportunity to delve into the heart of craftsmanship and know-how in the Paris region? Here are the not-to-be-missed tours in the Paris region. [Read more]
The Potager du Dauphin, in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine (92), is on the list of places well worth a visit. This historic park, imagined by the Marquis de Louvois, minister of Louis XIV, originally had a royal vocation: to supply the monarch's table. Today, this jewel of greenery lining the avenue du Château de Meudon reveals its elegance behind high walls. Between its 19th-century bourgeois villa and its rolling park, the site exudes a timeless charm.
Since 2008, it has been home to theHôtel des Métiers d'Art de Meudon. Fourteen exceptional workshops work on the creation and restoration of objets d'art, with the mission of preserving and transmitting rare know-how.
To mark the award of the Remarkable Contemporary Architecture labelto the Prouvé houses in the Cité Sans Souci by the French Ministry of Culture, the Potager du Dauphin is honoring Jean Prouvé and the Prouvé houses in Meudon.
Vitra & Prouvé
A chair by Jean Prouvé marks the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship between the French designer and furniture manufacturer Vitra. Twenty years on, the collaboration with Prouvé's heirs remains just as vibrant: Vitra has updated the collection with new colors and a number of little-known new models.
An immersion in Prouvé's design: living room, TV corner, terrace, office corner: the Prouvé collection by Vitra, furniture that has become both iconic and lesser-known, will grace the salon d'honneur of the Hôtel des métiers d'art during these exceptional days.
Continue your discovery of the houses of Meudon Jean Prouvé in the Saint-Georges chapel of the Potager du Dauphin, exceptionally open with an exhibition of photographs by Emanuele Piccardo "La cité Sans Souci". And make the most of the many events, meetings and visits to the Potager du Dauphin.
In partnership with Vitra.
Thanks to the Sans Souci association and the houses' co-owners, the "Maisons Prouvé" in Meudon have been awarded the Remarkable Contemporary Architecture label by the French Ministry of Culture. This year's European Heritage Days, on the theme of architectural heritage, are an opportunity to understand Jean Prouvé's major contribution to urban design and construction, and the originality of the Métropole and Coque houses in Meudon, which became almost unique after the industrial-scale manufacturing project was abandoned. Understanding Jean Prouvé's remarkable vision of construction, design and production management sheds light on many aspects of post-war architecture, in particular the immense need for (re)construction at the time. The conferences, led by various specialists in Prouvé's architecture and work, open the European Heritage Days weekend, and are illustrated by an exhibition of furniture from the Vitra House of Prouvé design at the Potager du Dauphin.
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 19 - 3PM
Potager du Dauphin
Free admission, booking essential
Discover intaglio engraving for children, and a dozen other arts and crafts on the premises.
Since 2008, the artisans of the Hotel d'Activité des Métiers d'Art de Meudon have been delighted to welcome you to this important event for the craft sector.
This year, you'll be able to meet the artisans in their workshops, discover their processes and projects, and take part in demonstrations (engraving and frescoes).
- unaccompanied tours of the Hôtel des métiers d'art, where you can meet craftsmen and women with rare skills and expertise in the service of heritage and objets d'art.
- guided or self-guided tours of the restored Saint-Georges chapel: guided tours of the Saint-Georges chapel by the Atelier d'icônes de Meudon, Saturday at 5:30 pm and Sunday at 3:30 pm and 4:30 pm, without reservation
- continuous engraving and printing workshop for children
- demonstration of a fresco painting technique saturday and sunday from 2 pm to 4 pm,
As part of the European Heritage Days, Christelle Le Bloas, founder of the "Arts du Vitrail et de la Laque" workshop, will be delighted to welcome you to her Meudonnais studio.
An opportunity to discover two areas of expertise combining tradition and modernity, and to discuss your projects.
The Chapelle Saint-Georges, painted by Father Igor Sendler in 1962 in the Russian Byzantine style, was completely restored in 2025. The quality of its restoration was recognized with a departmental Rubans du Patrimoine award.
You can discover the interior of the chapel and its set of murals painted in the Russian school by one of the Jesuit fathers of the Institut Saint-Georges, Egon Sendler (1923-2014).
Set up in 1956 as the St. George boarding school by the community of Jesuit fathers for the protection and education of Russian immigrant children after the Russian civil war in 1921, the chapel was decorated with its religious frescoes in 1962. Today, it is one of the most tangible reminders of the influence of the Saint-Georges boarding school, present in the Potager du Dauphin from 1946 to 2002, and an example of the strength of spiritual exchange between Catholic and Orthodox Christian denominations.
The Atelier d'icônes de Meudon, founded by the great master iconographer, Igor Sendler, perpetuates, with the greatest respect for his teaching, a vision and know-how where technique and materials have maintained a unity for almost two thousand years. Dedicated to learning Byzantine iconography, it organizes icon courses and workshops in Meudon and regularly offers guided tours of the Chapel.
During the European Heritage Days, the chapel is open to the public from 11am to 1pm and from 2pm to 7pm. In addition, 3 guided tours by the Atelier d'icônes de Meudon are organized, subject to availability:
- Saturday September 20 at 5.30pm
- Sunday September 21 at 3pm and 5pm (with a change of schedule: the concert initially scheduled to take place outdoors will now take place in the chapel at 4pm).
Please note that in the event of bad weather, open-air concerts will be held in the chapel.
On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, Lillia Baudo, master fresco artist, shares her ancestral fresco skills.
Set up with her easel, she revives the a fresco technique, painting directly on fresh plaster before the public's very eyes.
Her demonstration, lively and accessible to all, allows visitors to discover the precise gestures, the preparation of the plaster and the art of natural pigments, in a privileged exchange with the artist.https://www.lilliabaudo.com/d-tails-et-inscription/journees-europeennes-du-patrimoine-1
Far-off lands
As part of the OuVERTures festival
From an Inuit song to a tango tune, from rough and heady Amerindian evocations to subtle echoes of the Far East... True to its travel vocation, Ensemble Zellig demonstrates that in this age of instantaneity and the abolition of distance, the music of far-off lands will continue to make us dream for a long time to come.
Program
Thierry Pécou (b. 1965)
Chant inuit, for cello
Manoa, for bass flute, bass clarinet and cello
Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959)
Assobio a Jato, for flute and cello
Farnaz Modarresifar (born 1989)
La Pêcheuse de Perles, for flute and clarinet
Astor Piazzolla (1921-1992)
Étude tanguistique, for clarinet
Toru Takemitsu (1930-1996)
Air for flute
Flores Chaviano (born 1946)
Danzon, for flute, clarinet and cello
Astor Piazzolla
Le Printemps de Buenos Aires, for flute, clarinet and cello
Ensemble Zellig
Anne-Cécile Cuniot, flutes | Étienne Lamaison, clarinets | Silvia Lenzi, cello
Dates and Opening Time
From September 20, 2025 to September 21, 2025
Location
Potager du Dauphin
15 Rue Porto Riche
92190 Meudon
Prices
Free
Official website
www.artisansdartmeudon.fr
Heritage Days 2025: craft and know-how sites in Paris and the Île-de-France region
