European Heritage Days 2022: tours, conferences and workshops at the Albert-Kahn museum-garden (92)

The Musée-jardin Albert-Kahn is taking part in the new Journées du Patrimoine, on Saturday 16 and Sunday 17 September 2023. Take advantage of this weekend to visit the museum and discover its amazing program!

This is one of the Hauts-de-Seine department's most cherished heritage sites, which you can visit free of charge during the Journées du Patrimoine 2023. The Musée Albert-Kahn and its gardens, housed in the former residence of banker and philanthropist Albert Kahn in Boulogne-Billancourt, welcome us on Saturday 16th and Sunday 17th September 2023.Built bylandscape architect Achille Duchêne on a four-hectare site in Boulogne-Billancourt, the site is an architectural and landscaped gem.

Musée départemental Albert-Kahn: the travel and photography collection
Head to the Albert-Kahn Museum to discover its newly renovated spaces. An opportunity to discover the new setting in which the philanthropist's collections are exhibited. [Read more]

The Albert Kahn Museum's superb Japanese garden and other gardens that take us on a journey
The Musée Albert Kahn, which has just reopened its doors, unveils sublime gardens that are a must-see. Conceived as a scenic garden, this 4-hectare space features a magnificent Japanese garden and village, an English garden, a French garden and forests and meadows. A complete change of scenery. [Read more]

An opportunity to learn more about the site and its colorful founder, Albert Kahn. He founded Les Archives de la Planète, a company responsible for immortalizing the world's jewels in autochrome (the first color photographs). Albert Kahn was also passionate about plants. He therefore wanted to create a garden open to the public, showcasing every style of garden in the world. In all, 6 gardens provide an exhaustive presentation of the art of gardening: a French garden, a Japanese garden with its tea pavilion, an English garden, a Vosges forest, a blue forest with its central marsh and a golden forest with its birch trees.

When it went bankrupt in 1932, the residence was seized, but was soon bought by the Prefecture of the Seine, which wished to continue welcoming the public to the gardens. The mansion was then converted into a museum, to display a fine selection of the 72,000 autochromes and thousands of hours of film produced by the ten photographers hired by Albert Kahn.