What if, after admiring paintings, sculptures, or haute couture gowns, we head to the museum to learn... how the 8 o’clock news is made? Paris could welcome by 2029 a Museum of Information and the Press, named Musip, devoted to the history of the media but above all to the behind-the-scenes of journalism.
The project has taken a first step this Monday, September 28, 2026: the Musip has opened its virtual doors to offer educational content while awaiting the opening of a real Parisian campus.
The initiative is led by the France 24 journalist, Antoine Mariotti, and benefits in particular from a partnership with UNESCO. The stated ambition is especially timely: to explain how information comes to life in an era when social networks, artificial intelligence, manipulated images, and fake news can seriously blur the trail.
At first glance, Musip shouldn’t be a museum where visitors merely admire old newspapers yellowed behind glass. The project is designed to be immersive and interactive. Visitors would be able to discover the different stages of journalistic work: choosing a topic, researching and verifying sources, producing a reportage, or planning its publication. There will be radio and television studios as well as a workshop for print journalism, announced to let the public step into a journalist’s shoes for a few moments.
An approach that tackles one of the project’s biggest challenges: instead of telling visitors what to think about current events, its founders say they want to give them the tools to understand how information is produced and verified.
The project is also backed by media professionals. Its scientific advisory board is chaired by journalist and veteran correspondent Annick Cojean, and would already benefit from the support and involvement of several players in the information sector and in press freedom advocacy.
For now, the big unknown in the plan is the address of the future museum: the future museum’s address is not yet known. Discussions are currently underway to find a suitable site in Paris. According to information released at the project’s launch, the ideal site would cover an area of around 4,000 to 5,000 m².
The financial question remains central as well. The project backers cite an investment budget of around €20 million and plan to mix private funding with public money. Several hundred thousand euros have already been raised to kick off the initiative. The goal of a Paris opening in 2029 should be seen as an announced horizon, not as an inauguration date already carved in stone.
Did you know? Paris has long dreamed of a museum dedicated to the press. In 2000, a major exhibition staged at the Palais Brongniart, then best known as the former Paris Stock Exchange, was meant to foreshadow a genuine “City of the Press.” The idea was already to create a living space where the public could grasp how the media operates, combining a museum section with educational activities.
The project even envisioned bringing together, under one roof, the various players in journalism. But it was missing one crucial element for creating a museum: a permanent building. More than a quarter of a century later, Musip is reviving an idea that had already sparked debate across the Paris press world.
Also be careful not to confuse two Paris projects. Beyond the Musip, the Maison du dessin de presse is set to open to the public in Paris in September 2027. Housed in a rehabilitated former school spanning about 1,500 square meters, it will be dedicated specifically to the history and creation of press cartoons, from the French Revolution to the present day.
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The Musip, for its part, plans to embrace a much broader range, spanning print media, radio, television, digital platforms, and the very mechanisms behind how information is made. If the project goes ahead as planned, Paris could, within a few years, have two complementary spaces dedicated to this peculiar object that accompanies us from breakfast to the last glance at our phone: the news.
And in a city that gave birth to and fostered so many newspapers, cartoonists, news agencies and major newsrooms, information would finally have found a fitting home in the museum.
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