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ARMENIAN MUSEUM FIGHTS FOR ITS PARIS HOME
Art Newspaper
June 10 2014
Director goes to court to regain access to the collection, after
locks were changed on shared building
By Francine Guillou and Victoria Stapley-Brown.
The Musee Armenien de France has been locked out of the Hôtel d'Ennery,
a state-owned building in Paris that it has shared with the Musee
d'Ennery since 1953.
The Armenian museum's director, Frederic Fringhian, has been fighting
with the leadership of the Musee Guimet in Paris, the national museum
of Asian art, which controls the building. In 2011, the Armenian
museum was asked to temporarily move its collection of over 1,000
objects during renovations on the Musee d'Ennery. Although part of
the collection was moved back in 2012, the Armenian museum's space
remains in poor condition and is unsafe for visitors, according to
the Musee Guimet's leadership.
Fringhian has now gone to civil court to regain full access to the
building, which changed its locks in April. The Musee Guimet says
the Armenian museum was given the option of showing its collection
at the Musee des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Mediterranee in
Marseilles. But Fringhian, whose complaint has already been rejected by
one French court, maintains that the Paris building is the struggling
museum's "only life raft".
Next year is the centenary of the massacre, which many believe was
genocidal, of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Armenian-museum-fights-for-its-Paris-home/32833
Art Newspaper
June 10 2014
Director goes to court to regain access to the collection, after
locks were changed on shared building
By Francine Guillou and Victoria Stapley-Brown.
The Musee Armenien de France has been locked out of the Hôtel d'Ennery,
a state-owned building in Paris that it has shared with the Musee
d'Ennery since 1953.
The Armenian museum's director, Frederic Fringhian, has been fighting
with the leadership of the Musee Guimet in Paris, the national museum
of Asian art, which controls the building. In 2011, the Armenian
museum was asked to temporarily move its collection of over 1,000
objects during renovations on the Musee d'Ennery. Although part of
the collection was moved back in 2012, the Armenian museum's space
remains in poor condition and is unsafe for visitors, according to
the Musee Guimet's leadership.
Fringhian has now gone to civil court to regain full access to the
building, which changed its locks in April. The Musee Guimet says
the Armenian museum was given the option of showing its collection
at the Musee des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Mediterranee in
Marseilles. But Fringhian, whose complaint has already been rejected by
one French court, maintains that the Paris building is the struggling
museum's "only life raft".
Next year is the centenary of the massacre, which many believe was
genocidal, of Armenians in the Ottoman Empire.
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Armenian-museum-fights-for-its-Paris-home/32833