With 182 days open to the public in 2020, the Cité received an average of nearly 1 visits per day, a daily decline of only 100%.
Exhibitions that meet their audiences
Although subjected to severe gauges, the temporary exhibitions in the City have shown very good momentum. First of all, the Viennese Season, which took place from November 2019 to March 2020, in a context of social movements, totaled nearly 70 visits to the exhibitions Otto Wagner, master of Viennese art nouveau and Trésors of the Albertina. Architectural drawings.
The exhibitions inaugurated in autumn 2020, Paris 1910-1937. Walks in the Albert-Kahn and Kinshasa Chroniques collections experienced, from their opening, an excellent dynamic in attendance, despite the health context.
Paris 1910-1937 received nearly 20 visits in 000 days and Kinshasa Chroniques, nearly 40 visits in two weeks. These two exhibitions will be extended until July 9, 000, to allow everyone to come and discover them.
An exceptional presentation of the sculptures of the spire of Notre-Dame
La Cité is proud to welcome the original sculptures of the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris. In addition to the Rooster which overhangs the spire, the 12 apostles and the symbols of the four evangelists, as and when they are restored, gradually enrich the permanent route of the museum and renew the public's view of our collections. Individual or group visitors come in large numbers to discover this exceptional presentation which will last all year 2021.
A renewed and densified digital offer
The increased reputation of the City is also visible through its digital offer. In order to maintain the link with the public, during the physical closure of the Palais de Chaillot, the teams of the Cité created a unique digital offer by drawing on the rich and diverse content of its cultural program and its collections. Its fundamental mission - to show and understand the history of architecture and the city - has thus developed with online videos, - conferences, public courses, capsules - whose views have increased by 43%, virtual exhibitions, the visibility of which has increased by 325%, and digitized documents from the Contemporary Architecture Library made available on request.
The closure periods also allowed the establishment to experiment with new forms of mediation popular with the public (families, young people, teachers, etc.), through online conference visits and the provision of educational content. free.
The adaptability of our training missions
The École de Chaillot has preserved the excellence of its courses by immediately adapting all of its training courses to distance education.
The 2020 report therefore presents positive elements proving that the City has strengthened its notoriety and its links with its various audiences. As soon as it reopens, it will offer attractive programming throughout the year.