Visitors eager to discover the oldest museum in the capital have found the door closed.

The Carnavalet-Histoire de Paris Museum, which was to reopen to the public this Saturday after four years of work, was unable to welcome visitors due to a social movement.

Located in the heart of the Marais, the establishment was blocked by agents from Paris Museums working in the establishment, on strike against new working time rules.

The museum was forced to close all day Saturday, for which all booking slots were filled.

It may nevertheless reopen on Sunday.

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Asked by AFP, the City of Paris said that the demands related to the establishment of 1,607 hours among the staff of the town hall.

This is the legal working time imposed on all communities by the 2019 law on the transformation of the civil service, which put an end to exceptional situations.

Paris Museums agents benefit from the working time rules applied to City of Paris agents.

"The City of Paris is not at the initiative of this law, and the municipal executive disapproves of its objectives, unfortunately having no other choice but to implement it", we have added, while negotiations on the subject are underway with the unions.

Some demands "are more specific to Paris Museums and the Carnavalet Museum, such as the recruitment of additional staff and the revaluation of the Sunday bonus", according to the municipality.

A museum closed for nearly five years

The building had been closed since October 2016 to be able to carry out a complete renovation, from the renovation of the facades and the roofs to the upgrading of the site, for a budget of 58.3 million euros.

The mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo and the Minister of Culture Roselyne Bachelot inaugurated it on Wednesday.

Opened in 1880, the museum has some 625,000 works retracing the history of Paris from prehistoric times to the present day, in two historic mansions in the Marais.

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