The rediscovered charms of the Bourdelle Museum

Spring has returned to the Bourdelle Museum, which is reopening after a fundamental restoration campaign.

It will have lasted two years and led to seven months of total closure (total cost of the operation 5 million euros).

And that's the magic of these backup and restore jobs, you hardly notice it.

The reunion with the house-workshop of the living god of sculpture that was Antoine Bourdelle (1861-1929) is sweet, despite the size of the company.

It was necessary to disburse to strengthen the foundations;

inject concrete into the underlying quarries;

reinforce the structure of the building, built in half-timbered construction in 1878, with a cage made of vertical metal sections which double the wooden posts, but must remain almost invisible;

undo and redo the workshop slab;

restore parquet, paneling,

, quotes Ophélie Ferlier-Bouat...

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