• The town hall of Cannes is planning the construction of an international museum of cinema and the Cannes Film Festival for 170 million euros.

  • "By its international dimension and its high quality content, the future Cannes site is intended to be a national museum," said Mayor David Lisnard.

Announced for years, postponed several times, the project of a museum dedicated to the Seventh Art in Cannes would be in the process of “coming to fruition”, assures the town hall of the city.

It has also just signed with the French Association of the International Film Festival, whose 2022 edition ended a few days ago on the Croisette, an agreement "on the cultural and artistic orientations" of this cultural site. coming.

It also announces that it will not open until 2028, i.e. three years behind what had been previously announced, in 2020. This extra time will be used in particular to refine the artistic proposals of this announced temple of cinema for which the mayor, David Lisnard, displays a certain ambition.

"By its international dimension and its high quality content, the future Cannes site is intended to be a national museum", he says.

Will the Ministry of Culture hear it that way?

In the meantime,

20

Minutes

takes stock of the activities already planned and the other details of the project.

A space of 5,200 m2 facing the sea

It is now increasingly clear: this international museum of cinema and the Cannes Film Festival will be erected to the west of the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès, 2 km by car, on land with a sea view, just side of a MJC, between boulevard du Midi and avenue du Docteur Raymond Picaud.

The municipality explains that it "prefers" this land of nearly 2 ha.

On site, she still hopes for a “strong and emblematic architectural gesture”, a real “Guggenheim of the 7th art” with a total surface area of ​​5,200 m2.

On the calendar, on the other hand, the lines have moved.

While the town hall was counting two years ago on an opening in 2025, it affirms today that "the delivery of the site will take place in 2028", in the future and without condition.

But on a possible third term of mayor David Lisnard therefore.

"The next steps are to develop private and public partnerships for the financing of the building, the estimated amount of which is 170 million euros excluding taxes", explains the municipality.

History of cinema, special effects and "children's" area on the program

On the content of the museum, things are already clearer.

The largest spaces on the site (2,500 m2) will be devoted to a permanent exhibition on the history of world cinema, produced by the Cinémathèque française, indicates the city, which provides very concrete details.

Entitled “Long live the cinema!

», this section, which will bring together machines, costumes, objects and excerpts and films, will also have reconstructed sets, and in particular those

of Chaplin's

Modern Times .

George Méliès' studio will also be reproduced there.

The Cannes Film Festival will have the right to 1,000m2 to tell its story.

And this space “will not be frozen since it will be enriched, each summer, with echoes of the last edition”, specifies the town hall.

Further on, Universciences will be responsible for designing 500 m2 for children aged 6 to 12.

Museographed in the form of film sets, they will allow the youngest to learn about the workings of the Seventh Art.

Another 300 square meters will form "a

studio lab

behind the scenes and manufacturing secrets of filming and special effects", describes the municipality.

A space of 1,000 m2 open to blockbusters for temporary exhibitions, a 650-seat auditorium, a restaurant, a café and a shop (over 1,500 m2 in total) will complete the museum's offer.

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