MUSÉE TRANSITOIRE #4

MINISTÈRE TRANSITOIRE

Beffroi de l’ancienne mairie du 1er arrondissement

2A place du Louvre 75001 Paris

23 January - 19 December 2026

For its fourth edition, Musée Transitoire invests the Belfry on Place du Louvre, between the Church of
Saint-Germain-l’Auxerrois and the former town hall. Built in 1858 based on drawings by Mr. Roguet,
under the direction of Théodore Ballu, the tower creates architectural symmetry between the two institutions and highlights the rivalry between civic and religious powers.

In hosting Ministère Transitoire, the site becomes scene of another rapprochement: that of art and institution, action and power, inscribing in the architecture itself a historical continuity between symbolic forms and mechanisms of domination.