City of Architecture & Heritage

Become an expert of important architecture from the Middle Ages to present day

Visit the City of Architecture & Heritage was Museum of French Monuments with Go City®

• Visit one of the key players in defining and sharing the culture of architecture. 

About this experience

City of Architecture & Heritage reminds visitors that architecture is everyone’s business. Its collection – the Museum of French Monuments – is designed to make you an architectural and urban player of the future. 

The exhibits include cast models, drawings, photographs and videos presenting a story of cultural heritage, told from the Middle Ages to the modern-day.  It examines building techniques, why they were built and the people for whom they were constructed. 

Highlights: 

• Gallery of Casting: casts of monumental French architecture from the 12th to the 18th centuries including Notre-Dame de Paris cathedral before the restorations of Viollet-le-Duc, the basilica of Paray-le-Monial and the royal portal of Chartres Cathedral
• Gallery of Murals and Stained Glass: copies of murals and stained glasses from French Romanesque and Gothic churches - notably the Life of Christ in pictures, Albi: the Last Judgment and Tree of Jesse
• Modern and Contemporary Gallery: models of French and international architecture from 1850 to the present day with such diverse examples from the Crystal Palace to the L’Oreal factory, Aulnay-sous-Bois and Notre-Dame de la Consolation Church, Le Raincy