Territorial scale
The Lorraine regional museum in Nancy possesses a very varied collection, in terms of quantity, artistic quality and typologies. One of the main strategies of the plan of action on which we reflected is to put the museum at the center of a network of institutions of the Lorraine region so as to federate and reinforce the cohesion of the regional cultural offer. The museum would therefore become the center of a « cultural net », thanks to the diversity and the historical and artistic significance of its collection.
Architectures
The Lorraine regional museum in Nancy is not a building but a territory within which several buildings from different time periods cohabitate. This creates overlapping urban trails, one from the middle ages, one from the « Stanislas era » and one from the 19th century, next to a large wooded park. The new extension is located along this vegetalized area, at the heart of the system. It shelters the new museum lobby, a temporary exhibition hall and an auditorium. The project as a whole is voluntarily heterogenous, thus creating a « museum-city » in which each building reflects a part of the city’s history, integrates a function or offers a major and distinctive space.
