The Albert-Kahn departmental museum is located at Boulogne-Billancourt, in the Hauts-de-Seine. It occupies the former residence and its park of the humanist and universalist banker, Albert Kahn (1860-1940), originally from Alsace and then established in Paris.
This notably constituted a collection known as the "Archives of the Planet", composed from 1909 to 1931, containing 72,000 color photographs on plates, around one hundred hours of black and white and color film, and 4000 black stereoscopic plates. and white. It is completed by a garden with landscaped scenes covering nearly four hectares. For Albert Khan, this documentary set should help dialogue between people through a better knowledge of cultures, traditions and landscapes.
At the same time, he created foundations to inform and educate peoples and their elites.
Built from 1895 to 1920, the garden is dotted with factories (small constructions) and offers landscape scenes: French garden, orchard-rose garden, English garden, Japanese village, blue forest and marsh, meadow and golden forest, Vosges forest and "alpino-Japanese" garden.
The private mansion which housed the collections such as the park are protected.
For the time being, only the gardens are accessible to visitors. Indeed, a new exhibition building of 2,300 m² is under construction and the rooms of the private mansion are being redeveloped. The site must be completed at the end of 2021 to present the photos and films in the context of a new museography.
Garden open every day (reservation required on weekends). Price: 3 and 4 euros. Information on +33 1 55 19 28 00.
