the Collectio database

The monuments house numerous cultural artefacts catalogued by the collections inventory and record-keeping department. Take a closer look with the Collectio database!

The collections of the Centre des monuments nationaux

76 sites managed by the Centre des monuments nationaux house collections. This represents 169,000 cultural artefacts! Of these, more than 12,300 are listed as Historic Monuments, ranging from the fine arts to contemporary art, including the natural sciences and ethnology.

Within theprogramming department of the Directorate for the Conservation of Monuments and Collections, the Collections Inventory and Reconciliation Unit is responsiblefor establishing the ownership status of cultural artefacts, as well as for studying, cataloguing, reconciling, managing and promoting the collections.

Did you know? Inventory involves recording an item in a register of documents within a collection. At the same time, the reconciliation process aims to verify and, where necessary, regularly update the data relating to the works.

State room of Madame Thierry de Ville d’Avray, reflection of the bed in the mirror, Hôtel de la Marine
© Benjamin Gavaudo / Centre des Monuments Nationaux

The Collectio database

The Collectio database is a tool for cataloguing and managing the collections held within the network of national monuments. Inventories of movable objects are entered into the database during on-site inventory or verification campaigns.

Collectio provides the collections inventory and reconciliation unit, as well as all staff at the organisation, with a sustainable and coherent information system enabling the management and conservation of cultural assets in collaboration with the monuments, whilst ensuring access to inventory data.

Based on the Collectio inventory database, a dedicated website for the collections of certain monuments is available for consultation by the public and researchers.

Would you like to find out more? Visit the collections website at collections.monuments-nationaux.fr or the websites of...

Bones and coprolites found during excavations at the Pair-Non-Pair Cave
© Olivier Huard / Centre des Monuments Nationaux

In pictures

The Four Evangelists and Their Attributes
© Colombe Clier / Centre des Monuments Nationaux

The Death of the Virgin, detail — Detail from the tapestry depicting the Death of the Virgin at the Palais du Tau in Reims
© Pascal Lemaître / Centre des Monuments Nationaux

Dressing table — Mallet-Stevens dressing table at the Villa Cavrois
© Patrick Cadet / Centre des Monuments Nationaux

Fragment of a dolium with an embossed decoration depicting a stylised Doric column within a rectangular cartouche, Musée d’Ensérune
© Laurent Lecat / Centre des Monuments Nationaux

“Music, an allegory of marital harmony” at the Château d’Aulteribe
© reproduction by Hervé Lewandowski / CMN

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