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Cité de la Musique
Summary
The Cité de la Musique ("City of Music"), also known as Philharmonie 2, is a group of institutions dedicated to music and situated in the Parc de la Villette, 19th arrondissement of Paris, France. It was designed with the nearby Conservatoire de Paris (CNSMDP) by the architect Christian de Portzamparc and opened in 1995. Part of François Mitterrand's Grands Projets, the Cité de la Musique reinvented La Villette – the former slaughterhouse district.
It consists of an amphitheater, a concert hall that can accommodate an audience of 800–1,000, a music museum containing an important collection of music instruments from different cultural traditions, dating mainly from the fifteenth- to twentieth-century, a music library, exhibition halls and workshops. The Cité de la Musique, as an EPIC, was also entrusted by the State with the management of the Salle Pleyel, which reopened on September 13, 2006, after major renovations. In 2015, it was renamed Philharmonie 2 as part of the Philharmonie de Paris when a larger symphony hall was built by Jean Nouvel and named Philharmonie 1. Its official address is 221, Avenue Jean Jaurès, 75019 Paris.
The Cité de la Musique, also known as Philharmonie 2, with an area of 28,748 m2, includes:
a 250-seat amphitheater;
a fully modular concert hall, which can accommodate from 900 to 1,600 spectators;
the music museum containing an important collection of classical musical instruments dating mainly between the 16th and 21st centuries;
a large musical media library and professional documentation spaces;
exhibition halls;
educational workshops;
a bookshop.
Placed under the supervision of the Ministry of Culture. Designed by the architect Christian de Portzamparc and inaugurated on December 7, 1995, it brings together a set of facilities and services dedicated to music and is located on the Place de la Fontaine-aux-Lions at the Porte de Pantin in the district du Pont-de-Flandres in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, on the edge of the Parc de la Villette.
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