On Saturday, May 17, 2025, the Musée Départemental Albert-Kahn will be taking part in the new edition of the Nuit des Musées (Night of Museums ), with a special program for this evening! It's an opportunity to discover this unique site by night, and spend an evening in a museum garden. If the name doesn't ring a bell, this banker and philanthropist created a company, Archives de la Planète, and employed dozens of photographers from 1900 to 1931 to immortalize the jewels of the world. They produced over 72,000 magnificent autochrome color photos and a hundred hours of video on 35 mm nitrate film.
Why are we telling you all this? Because this collection is housed in Boulogne-Billancourt, in the banker's former residence built by landscape architect Achille Duchêne! Here, the businessman thought big and commissioned the creation of 6 magnificent gardens representing the art of gardening. Covering more than 4 hectares, they include 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.
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]
Dates and Opening Time
On May 17, 2025
Location
Albert-Kahn Museum
2 Rue du Port
92100 Boulogne Billancourt
Prices
Free
Official website
albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.fr
Musée départemental Albert-Kahn: the travel and photography collection
