The Hauts-de-Seine department announced, on July 1, 2025, the appointment of Jehanne Lazaj (47) to the direction of the Château de Sceaux, a departmental museum. She will take office on August 18, 2025, after six years at the head of the heritage and decoration office at the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs.
A graduate of the Louvre school, Jehanne Lazaj comes from the 2004 promotion of the National Heritage Institute (INP). She began her career as her heritage curator at the Ministry of Culture, within the General Inventory of Cultural Heritage, before joining national furniture in 2010 as an inspector of collections. In 2014, she organized the exhibition “Le Bivouac de Napoleon: Luxury and ingenuity in the countryside” at the Fesch Palace in Ajaccio. In 2015, this exhibition was resumed in another configuration, at the Gallery of Gobelins and attracted 16,000 visitors. The same year, she was appointed conservative -chief of heritage at the Château de Fontainebleau. From 2020 to 2025, she worked at the Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs. She obtained her doctorate in 2023 with a thesis entitled Caroline Bonaparte and Joachim Murat, a couple reflecting an era: art of living, residences and collections.
The Château de Sceaux, built from 1670 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, then Minister of Louis XIV, was designed with the collaboration of renowned artists such as André Le ours for the gardens, Charles Le Brun for decoration and François Girardon for sculpture. Today, the museum (created in 1937) is devoted to the art of French life from the 18th century to the 19th century, through a collection of objects and works of art.
Jehanne Lazaj was delighted with her appointment: “I will have at heart, with the team, to make space as alive, instructive as they are inspiring for all audiences and to promote the strong identity of this atypical place devoted to the art of living and to French taste. »» The Musée du Domaine Departmental de Sceaux is part of the “Vallée de la Culture” network.
Jehanne Lazaj succeeds Dominique Bremen, director of the establishment from 2009 to 2025, under the mandate of which the museum experienced a deep transformation: restoration of gardens, its orangery, adaptation of the castle to museographic standards, and reopening to the public in 2020.
The Château-Musée Departmental de Sceaux.
