While the Picasso-Paris National Museum (created by a dation of the family in the French State), celebrated the 40th anniversary of the 40th anniversary on Sunday, September 28, its opening to the public, its director Cécile Debray unveiled her new development projects. Named “Picasso 2030”, it has two main components. On the one hand, a new wing of 1,500 m2, overlooking rue Vieille-du-Temple, dedicated to temporary exhibitions and offering “Light, modular and spacious spaces”. On the other hand, a garden of Picasso sculptures – the first in the world – which will bring together the garden of the museum and the Square Léonor finish which is currently adjoining it.
Including a play area for children, this vegetated park will be embellished with several sets of bronzes. You can access it for free from the museum as from the street. The ground floor of the Salé Hotel, freed from the works exposed there, will be redeveloped; He will be able to accommodate a café-restaurant opening on the outside as well as a bookstore shop.
Between 2009 and 2014, the Picasso Museum had already been the subject of a major renovation program; This time he takes a new step, which follows the opening within its walls last March of the Picasso Studies Center, a resource center devoted in particular to the digitization of the collections.
The site should start in 2028 at the end of the consultation which will designate the architect. The works, the amount of which is estimated at 50 million euros will be done on an open site. These developments will be entirely self-funded by the Picasso family and a patronage campaign led by the Museum Foundation, sheltered at the Academy of Fine Arts.
