Marie Gicquel 11:32 a.m., February 15, 2023
A year and a half before the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris, an exhibition at the City of Architecture and Heritage allows you to follow the progress of the renovation of the cathedral live.
The opportunity to see very closely the great organ, the stained glass windows, the sculptures of the twelve apostles, as many objects recovered and restored for some who are waiting for the end of the work to return to the cathedral.
While waiting for the reopening of Notre-Dame de Paris, scheduled for a year and a half from now, the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, located in Paris, is keeping certain rooms that have already been restored and certain elements such as the great organ, three centuries old, which Europe 1 was able to see thanks to the exhibition "Notre-Dame de Paris, from the builders to the restorers" to be discovered until the beginning of the year 2024.
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The great organ was spared by the flames
He opens the course all dented, after his fall of 96 meters: the most very proud rooster of the spire of Notre-Dame will leave his privileged place to another copper rooster.
But inside Notre-Dame, the organ will resonate well again as evidenced by some of its 8,000 pipes, renovated and exposed.
The instrument, one of the most imposing in Europe, was spared by the flames and the water but not by the dust.
"The people who restore and clean the organ are called organ builders. Three organ builder workshops worked, all located in the south of France", explains Lisa Bergugnat, co-curator of the exhibition .
"The great organ of the cathedral is made up of different materials, wooden pipes, tin pipes, lead pipes", she continues at the microphone of Europe 1.
The organ will be reassembled within a year.
But it will take six months to harmonize the instrument during the night, because the operation must be done in the most total silence.