Discover the new website for the collections of the Hôtel de la Marine
The Hôtel de la Marine is home to a large number of cultural assets inventoried and listed by the Centre des monuments nationaux. Discover the collections up close thanks to the Collectio database!
The Collectio database
The Collectio database is an inventory and management tool for the collections held in the Centre des monuments nationaux network. Inventories of movable objects are entered into the database during inventory campaigns or in situ collection reviews.
Collectio provides the Collections Inventory and Review Unit, and all the institution's staff, with a permanent and coherent information system that enables them to keep track of inventories and to manage and conserve cultural assets in collaboration with the monuments.
From the Collectio inventory database, a website dedicated to the collections of certain monuments is available for consultation by the public and researchers.
The collections of the Hôtel de la Marine
As part of the process of opening up this emblematic monument on the Place de la Concorde in Paris to the public, the Centre des Monuments Nationaux carried out work between 2016 and 2021, in particular to restore the beauty and atmosphere of the building at the time of the first stewards of the Garde-Meuble: Pierre-Elisabeth de Fontanieu (1731-1784) and Marc-Antoine Thierry, Baron de Ville d'Avray (1732-1792).
The collection, consisting mainly of furniture from the Louis XVI period (1775-1790), includes more than 500 items of cultural property thanks to deposits from institutions such as the Ministry of the Armed Forces, the Louvre Museum, the Decorative Arts Museum (MAD), the Cité de la Céramique de Sèvres, the Mobilier National, the Centre national des arts et métiers (CNAM), the Château de Versailles, the Centre national d'art plastique (CNAP) and the Banque de France.
Descendants of the Thierry de Ville d'Avray family, private individuals and regional museums have also contributed to the collection by depositing or lending works. The Centre des Monuments Nationaux has also contributed through its acquisition policy, which is ongoing.
The collections of the Centre des monuments nationaux
76 sites managed by the Centre des monuments nationaux house collections. This represents 162,000 items of cultural property! Of these, more than 12,000 are protected as Historic Monuments, ranging from the fine arts to contemporary art, from the natural sciences to ethnology.
Within the Programming Department of the Monuments and Collections Conservation Directorate, the Collections Inventory and Review Unit is responsible forestablishing the ownership status of cultural assets, and for studying, inventorying, collecting, managing and disseminating collections.
Did you know that? The inventory consists of recording an item in a register of documents in a collection. At the same time, the aim of the recolement operation is to check and, if necessary, regularly update the data relating to the works.