This book was published on the occasion of the reopening of the Musée de Cluny in 2022.
This book aims to reveal this place full of history through the two monuments that constitute it: the thermal baths and the hotel.
The Baths of Cluny, or Baths of Northern Lutetia, built in the 1st century AD, are among the most monumental Gallo-Roman remains in northern France - particularly thanks to the preservation of a vast vaulted room, the frigidarium.
The Hôtel de Cluny, built in the second half of the 15th century and completed during the abbatiate of Jacques d'Amboise in the first decade of the 16th century, was the Parisian urban residence of the abbots of Cluny, and is now the oldest and best preserved of the medieval Parisian hotels.
This unique architectural and museum complex brings together two millennia of urban history and fifteen centuries of art history.
Today, a large-scale project is underway to redeploy the collections and rationalise the circulation and articulation between the museum's various entities; in this context, an extension, entrusted to the architect Bernard Desmoulin, will bring the building into the 21st century.
