Historical monuments and sites
Historical monuments and sites
Catalogue of initiatives integrating citizen participation in the field of historical monuments and sites.
Co-construction
Project of research and theatrical creation center anchored in the remarkable heritage site of Pau.
Wealth Policy: Knowledge - Conservation - Valuation
Project Date: since 2022
Target Citizens: General public
Éric Vignier, artistic director of Théâtre à Pau, wishes to develop a project for a research and theatrical creation centre dedicated to the repertoire of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. This project aims to associate, within different heritage places, the academic world and artists around a pole where artists and researchers can rub shoulders and work together on the Pau architectural heritage and its collective imagination. Ultimately, the specialists will work upstream of the creations to bring their knowledge and offer the public a new clear, modern and innovative approach to the works of the classical repertoire by appropriating the emblematic places of the remarkable heritage site of Pau. The companies in residence will be able to invest singular places of the remarkable heritage site of Pau which are, a priori, not intended to host theater. The shows, imagined for and from the places in which they were created, to share with the public unique moments conceived as a work step of an artistic process already engaged and which will extend in other places and in front of other audiences in other forms. This relationship to architecture and heritage is one of the pillars of the Centre de recherche et de création théâtre de Pau. Specialists in Palois heritage will be associated with the research college to shed light on the place and to dialogue heritage, research and artistic creation.
Created in 1895 by Maurice Pottecher and classified historical monument in 1976 is still in operation and offers creations for all, with shows that mix amateurs and professionals
Wealth Policy: Knowledge - Conservation - Valuation
Project Date: since 1895
Target Citizens: Professional artists and amateur volunteers
From this utopia in action flow four fundamental elements that constitute the identity of the Théâtre du Peuple-Maurice Pottecher while having evolved throughout its history:
- A wooden building and an open stage on the Vosges nature;
- The search for a large and diverse audience;
- A varied repertoire of high artistic quality adapted to the place;
- The meeting of amateurs and professionals.
More details on the participatory aspect:
History of the participatory project since the 19th century
https://www.theatredupeuple.com/Le-Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre-du-Peuple/lhistoire
Participatory project
A third place in the heart of a castle. The Center of National Monuments launches a call for applications to rethink the uses of the castle of Jossigny by making available the old commons and part of the park to a project leader wishing to propose a project of thirdplace intended to diversify the uses of the site, to welcome new audiences, and thus to prefigure the possible future of this heritage in the long term. This approach aims to contribute to the necessary reinvention of heritage and the renewal of its uses. It proposes to open the doors of historical monuments to make them spaces for work, creation and thus allow the reappropriation of the site by society.
Wealth Policy: Knowledge - Conservation - Valuation
Project Date: 2015 - 2022
Target Citizens: Inhabitants and users of the city of Joinville
As part of the partnership between the Centre des Monuments Nationaux and Plateau Urbain, aimed at rethinking the uses of Jossigny Castle, the cooperative is calling for applications for the temporary occupation of outdoor spaces. This project with the Centre des Monuments Nationaux reinvents heritage and gives it new uses. The goal? Open the doors of national monuments to make them spaces for work, creation and new activities in these spaces left vacant. If the Castle is now closed to the public most of the time, the ambition of the Centre des Monuments Nationaux is to allow project leaders to invest spaces of the site to engage the reappropriation of the site by civil society.
The objective of this third place is therefore to allow to diversify the uses of the site, to welcome new audiences, and to prefigure the possible future of this heritage in the long term.
A plot of the park of approximately 2500 m2 is made available to one or more project holders so that they can exploit it and propose a specific project.
For several years now, Joinville has been pursuing an ambitious policy of restoring and enhancing its heritage. This includes private houses, which make up most of the urban fabric of the historic centre and whose many facades still require restoration. In order to accelerate the process of revitalization of the town center, the city of Joinville regularly organizes, since 2014, participatory projects.
Wealth Policy: Knowledge - Conservation - Valuation
Project Date: 2015 - 2022
Target Citizens: Inhabitants and users of the city of Joinville
Built in the 16th century, the house of 26 rue des Marmouzets is one of the oldest houses in the old center. It is probably she who gave her name to the street since she had, until the early 2000s, a sculpture of marmoset. Unfortunately broken, detailed photographs will however allow to restore it. Based on the mobilization of volunteers who are keen to see the Joinvillois heritage relive, and supported by solid knowledge transmitted in terms of qualitative restoration of old buildings, these projects began with the painting of many carpentry shops in the city. Implementing the technique of making flour paint with colors based on earth dyes made in the Ardennes, these projects took a new impetus in 2017, with the complete restoration of a first facade in wood.
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These projects have become very important and expected every year. They make it possible to rediscover half-timbered facades and to multiply the dynamics of heritage development as part of the revitalization of thetown, while mobilizing and retaining the network of volunteers already invested to disseminate good restaurant practices. Finally, it should be noted that this form of mobilization also begins to develop for the maintenance of ancient walls around the paths, in the parish church, around the planting of perennials in the feet of facades, etc. So many avenues to explore to develop another conception of values within the territory project. In Joinville, heritage is a legacy that is built on a daily basis, with the inhabitants as a solution at every stage.
Save and promote the religious heritage dating from the 15th century of the city of Orignac in the Hautes-Pyrénées
Wealth Policy: Knowledge - Conservation - Valuation
Project Date: 2016 - 2022
Target Citizens: Citizens and users of the municipality of Orignac
Since 2016 and the agreement signed with the Heritage Foundation, the elected officials and inhabitants of Orignac redoubled their efforts to save their beautiful church. True symbol of the village, strong identity for its inhabitants, the project led by the municipality and supported by the Heritage Foundation will allow the church of Orignac to be valued. The building is already open to visitors by the association «Connaissance des Ferrère et du Baroque Pyrénéen», once rehabilitated, the church will be able to welcome its visitors, faithful in greater numbers in a secure and preserved place.
The restoration of the Château de Goutelas has brought a utopia shared by men and women from diverse backgrounds: peasants, workers, lawyers and artists
Wealth Policy: Knowledge - Conservation - Valuation
Project Dates: 1962 - 1984
Target Citizens: Local inhabitants, businesses and artisans
The uniqueness of the adventure lies in the considerable place of volunteering - 150,000 hours of work! -, and also the diversity of the social and cultural origins of those who took part together in the common task: intellectuals, peasants, trade unionist workers.
More details on the participatory aspect:
Goutelas by himself, Maurice Damon, 2006:
https://books.google.fr/books?id=oCyPycnKQcoC&lpg=PA9&dq=ch%C3%A2teau%20Goutelas&hl=en&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=ch%C3%A2teau%20Goutelas&f=false
Heritage site of a classified castle, dedicated to socio-cultural activities
Wealth Policy: Knowledge - Conservation - Valuation
Project Date: since 2016
Target Citizens: Citizens and users of the municipality of Lunel
La Colporteuse: heritage site dedicated to socio-cultural activities and to create a place of welcome, exchange, discoveries, initiatives and creation. We create collectives to be able to immerse everyone’s ideas and create places of collective creations where everyone has their place. We nevertheless wish to develop a new axis of intervention with young people and structures in order to open our castle to partners wishing to use the site as a support to the transmission of values: resourcefulness, creation of a group, integration into a project, second chance, summer camps, and many more… Partnership with Remparts.
Support municipalities wishing to reconcile their development project and the management of their heritage, and to promote these municipalities to the public
Wealth Policy: Knowledge - Conservation - Valuation
Project Date: since 2009
Target Citizens: Inhabitants and users of labeled cities
The Petite cité de caractère label is awarded to small municipalities with a quality and coherent architectural structure, which are committed to maintaining their heritage and showcasing it to residents and visitors. The association encourages municipalities to work on a shared reflection on the heritage of the city with the inhabitants and users most upstream of the project definition.
More details on the participatory aspect:
Examples of projects and feedback
https://www.petitescitesdecaractere.com/fr/lassociation-petites-cites-de-caractere-de-france/le-partage-de-belles-experiences
Open list of inspiring and innovative projects in Small Cities of Character
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1r4Q6pAKwIfBbgmHE3K4GtSQ1jfo6F77RXAgNWTnDVD4/edit#gid=0
Participatory enrichment of content/ data
Open Data Sharing Contributory Project
Wealth Policy: Knowledge - Conservation - Recovery
Project Date: since 2021
Target Citizens: Volunteer Internet users, 4,000 contributions to date
Called to become an online reference of the sector, the national inventory of organs was launched by the Ministry of Culture, the Organ Association in France and the Francophone Federation of Friends of the Organ. This project is fully in line with the development of contributory projects launched by the Ministry of Culture with the support of Etalab, which coordinates the State’s strategy for sharing open data.
More details on the participatory aspect:
News on the institutional website of the ministry
https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Actualites/Un-inventaire-participatif-pour-les-orgues-de-France
Crowdfunding
Crowdfunding for three projects on the Abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons
Wealth Policy: Knowledge - Conservation - Valuation
Project Date: since 2022
Target Citizens: Voluntary Internet users
Crowdfunding for three projects on the Abbey of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes in Soissons. The Friends of Saint-Jean-des-Vignes association also contributes to the restoration of this emblematic heritage site in Soissons.
Commonly called «La Sauvegarde», the foundation has dedicated itself in priority and for more than 40 years to the transmission of religious heritage, mainly churches and rural chapels, throughout France. It spends more than one million euros per year to finance their restoration work
Wealth Policy: Knowledge - Conservation - Valuation
Project Date: since 1921
Target Citizens: Owners of historic monuments and communities
Founded in 1921, recognized as an institution of public utility by decree of November 22, 1925, it is one of the oldest societies for the preservation of French heritage, in favor of the defense of works and objects of art and built heritage. Its activities are divided into three branches:
- Support for the restoration of religious buildings;
- Support for the restoration of works of art;
- Support for the preventive conservation of rural real estate.
Each year, the Foundation allocates on average 1 million euros for the restoration of nearly a hundred buildings, responding to the request of their owners, almost always municipalities, or associations mandated by them. The Board of Directors of La Sauvegarde decides on the distribution of its donations after consulting a committee of experts in which eminent architects and art historians participate. It is today the first patron of churches and chapels in France.
Inclusion
The workshops “Révélations” set up, originally, by the association Petites Cités de Caractère en Nouvelle-Aquitaine, aim to find the field of “doing together” and identify what makes “common good”. They seek to detect the singularity of the city and its geography and thus promote the participation of the inhabitants and the involvement of people to tell the story of the city.
Wealth Policy: Knowledge - Conservation - Valuation
Project Date: 2022
Target Citizens: Inhabitants of labeled municipalities
The association Petites Cités de Caractère has initiated dynamic forms of accompaniment to help municipalities to initiate concrete actions that put the inhabitant (and the user whatever he is) at the heart of the system of revelation of the heritage and the city. The experiments conducted as an extension of participatory workshops around the expression of cultural rights seek the contribution of the inhabitants to an innovative expression of the territorial narrative. Through these workshops, it is a question of making emerge a direction that allows the inhabitants and users of a place, a city, to feel concerned from their everyday uses. This meaning is called the common narrative. It is the basis of the recognition of the uniqueness of the place and the engine of participation. The elements that build the basis of the workshops of revelation are then: these issues and their perception by the inhabitants, experts of the use, the research of what makes the difference and the singularity, the emergence of a form of leitmotiv which summarizes the basis of the common narrative, a pre-programme of interventions that begin to illustrate the story to be developed, the first actions to be implemented. Thus these revelation workshops begin the first two stages of active participation.
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It is the trigger of collective and joyful participation. To do this, we use simple devices, sometimes offbeat, which seem to have no connection with the questioning posed but which indirectly create emotion, promote the expression: the postcard of the perception of the territory, the photo language, the comparative study of places that have challenged participants during their travels, etc. These devices reveal the stakes and levers: the common narrative gradually emerges.
Created in 1895 by Maurice Pottecher and classified historical monument in 1976 is still in operation and offers creations for all, with shows that mix amateurs and professionals
Wealth Policy: Knowledge - Conservation - Valuation
Project Date: since 1895
Target Citizens: Professional artists and amateur volunteers
From this utopia in action flow four fundamental elements that constitute the identity of the Théâtre du Peuple-Maurice Pottecher while having evolved throughout its history:
- A wooden building and an open stage on the Vosges nature;
- The search for a large and diverse audience;
- A varied repertoire of high artistic quality adapted to the place;
- The meeting of amateurs and professionals.
More details on the participatory aspect:
History of the participatory project since the 19th century
https://www.theatredupeuple.com/Le-Th%C3%A9%C3%A2tre-du-Peuple/lhistoire
Participatory inventory
Through Collectif Objets, the Ministry of Culture is launching a participatory census operation to support municipalities housing objects in the protection and enhancement of this heritage.
Wealth Policy: Knowledge - Conservation - Valuation
Project Date: since 2023
Target Citizens: Owners of protected movable objects
Historical monuments are the history of our territories. A regular census makes it possible to identify in time the situations which require an intervention and to bring solutions adapted to the singularities of your municipality.
Conducting a census means checking the presence of an object in your building and seeing its condition by answering a simplified questionnaire. It is a quick operation to carry out (5 to 10 min per object) and does not require any expertise or special training. The data collected allows the curators in charge of your territory to better know your heritage, to help you value it and to intervene in time to protect it.
You are elected or municipal agent? You are in charge of the heritage of your municipality? On Collectif Objets you can find the list of protected objects Historical Monuments sheltered by your municipality on the page “les objets de ma commune” to list them.
More details on the participatory aspect:
On "Collectif Objets" you can find the list of protected objects Historical Monuments sheltered by your municipality
The city of Montfort-sur-Meu, an ancient medieval city west of Rennes, has kept traces of its past and is committed, in connection with the Departmental Unit of Architecture and Heritage (UDAP) d'Ille-et-Vilaine, in a series of large-scale works that have made it possible to requalify its city centre.
Wealth Policy: Knowledge - Conservation - Valuation
Project Date: 2003 - 2019
Target Citizens: Inhabitants and users of the town of Montfort-sur-Meu
The attention paid to buildings led the municipality to request its integration into the Petites Cités de Caractère network in January 2017, an approach that also allowed it to obtain assistance from the Brittany Region to conduct the inventory of the heritage of its territory. Thus confirming the heritage approach in which it was already engaged for a long time, Montfort-sur-Meu wishes to equip itself with evolutionary tools to continue to enrich the knowledge, conservation, management and enhancement of its heritage.
More details on the participatory aspect:
The involvement of the inhabitants tightens the mesh of the study beyond what is practiced during a classical survey; attention is thus paid to a large amount of details (mosaic, type of opening, ridge spike, decorative elements, etc.) quality and originality of the building. The participation of the Montfortians is also an opportunity to gather their reactions on what makes heritage and thus engage in an active debate around the approach taken. At the end of 2019, the project resulted in an inventory of the future perimeter of the Remarkable Heritage Site (SPR) of the municipality, but should also make it possible to make new proposals for patrimonialization and enhancement (prescriptions, promotion of good practices, management and communication tools, animations, etc.). The approach involves many Montfortians and crosses generations, origins, functions, etc. If we can wish to see more such approaches, the community’s commitment to the entire process must be commended and it must be stressed that success depends on the facilitator of the system, which is an essential pivot of the expertise and animation of the network.
Label / associative grouping
Reinventing heritage is a program launched by the Banque des territoires, the Agence nationale pour la cohésion des territoires and Atout France with the Ministry of Culture, to facilitate the emergence of economic projects in monuments, around various uses.
Wealth Policy: Knowledge - Conservation - Valuation
Project Date: since 2021
Target Citizens: Owners of monuments and historic sites
«Reinventing Heritage» is an engineering support system aimed at stimulating tourism investment projects in monuments and remarkable sites. It will support the rehabilitation in hotel, cultural, event or third-place projects of a dozen sites selected for their heritage or architectural value.
More details on the participatory aspect:
Details of the call for projects:
https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Aides-demarches/Appels-a-projets/Reinventer-le-patrimoine-un-fonds-d-ingenierie-pour-la-valorisation-touristique-des-sites-patrimoniaux
Residence
Since 2005, the association Petites Cités de Caractère de Bretagne has been offering a travelling residence for foreign painters in the municipalities of its network through the “Art in Cities” initiative. These residences aim to enhance and animate the architectural heritage through the creation of contemporary works inspired by the heritage of the Small Cities of Character. By immersing themselves in the municipalities, by offering their view on what makes heritage in the cities, these artists question us on our own identities.
Wealth Policy: Knowledge - Conservation - Valuation
Project Date: since 2005
Target Citizens: Inhabitants of labeled municipalities
Hosted for six weeks, the artists, all from the same country, and often from the same artistic school, are invited to discover the network of Small Cities of Character of Brittany in its entirety. In complete immersion, the artists create according to their technique and their inspiration, works revealing the heritage of the cities. Thanks to this initiative, Brittany is reconnecting with its history and once again becoming a welcoming place for artists today, as it was during the first half of the 20th century. The works thus created are collected in a beautiful catalogue, of a travel diary type, and exhibited during the two years following the reception, in the cities of the Breton network, then, according to the projects, at the Maison de la Bretagne in Paris and in the country of origin of the artists. A number of these works have also been acquired with the support of the Crédit Mutuel de Bretagne Groupe Arkéa and have been presented permanently to the public in the town halls of the Petites Cités de Caractère®. By combining heritage and artistic approach, the Petites Cités de Caractère de Bretagne invite residents and visitors to take another look at an exceptional heritage.