Device overview
What is the Regional Museums Assistance Fund (RRRF)?
Created in 2000 at the initiative of the Ministry of Culture, as part of the overall decentralization policy, the Regional Funds for Restoration Assistance for Museums (FRAR) are state-funded support schemes (Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs) and the Regional Council. They are intended for museums holding the name museum of France.
This fund aims to help a local authority or an association to finance restoration operations or preventive conservation of works of art or objects in order to protect their collections, and whose cost would not allow implementation without external assistance.
Objectives of the approach
Preserving the collections of the Museums of France
Museum collections are constantly subject to constraints and aggressions (humidity, dust, shock, heat, infestation, etc.) jeopardizing their integrity or even leading to their destruction. Preventing these risks, intervening on their consequences is one of the fundamental missions of museums in France. The system makes it possible to support these establishments in their perspective of conservation and prevention.
Strengthen the tourist and cultural attractiveness
The FRAR supports communities and associations in the preservation of museum collections and in their restoration projects of major works, remarkable or significant, threatened. The maintenance of the collections ensures their preservation for future generations while making them accessible to the public in the best possible conditions of readability. These actions also make it possible to collaborate with specialists, restorers and preventers, who are authorized to intervene in the museum collections of France and thus develop an economic fabric of high technicality on the territory.
Am I concerned by this approach?
- Associations
- Commons
- Departments
- EPCI with own taxation
- Regions
The applicant depositing museum must benefit from the designation "Musée de France".
The award of aid is subject to several criteria:
- For operations involving the materiality of "musée de France" collection objects, the restoration project must have received a favourable opinion from the Regional Scientific Commission for Restorations (plenary format or permanent delegation) within 12 months of the date of the FRAR Committee. The committee assesses the relevance of the objectives of the project, that of the scientific and technical specifications established by the scientific manager, the conformity of the proposals of the restorer to the specifications, the consideration of preventive conservation in the general policy of the museum, the analysis of the means proposed by the restorer or the service provider.
- The intervention is of major importance for the safeguarding of the object and the preservation of local and regional heritage.
Are therefore not eligible:
- Files that have not received a favourable opinion in the Regional Scientific Commission for Acquisition (full format or permanent delegation).
- Files that have not received a favourable opinion in the Regional Scientific Commission for Restoration (plenary format or permanent delegation).
- Applications submitted in committee more than 12 months before the date of the FRAR committee.
It is the cost of HT restoration of a work or a batch of works that is eligible for all techniques (painting, engraving, drawing, sculpture, photography, etc.), all fields (fine arts, archaeology, fashion, design, history, natural history, ethnography, etc.) and all periods (from prehistory to contemporary art).
Procedure
The State/Region co-financing comes in the form of an investment grant awarded to institutions that own or manage museums.
It may not exceed 80% of the total cost of the restoration operation.
After the meeting of the FRAR committee, if the file receives a favourable opinion, the subsidy is sent to the purchaser.
The FRAR Committee, co-chaired by representatives of the State and the Regional Council, is composed of curators, heritage conservation attachés and qualified personalities. The relevance of restoration aid and the amount of subsidy are examined, the scientific aspect having been validated by the regional scientific commission.
The FRAR Committee meets once a year.
Go to the site of the deconcentrated service of the Ministry of Culture (DRAC/DAC/DCJS/MAC) you depend on to know the calendar of each region.
A question?
If you have any questions about the FRAM, please contact the Museum Advisor(s) of the Ministry of Culture (DRAC/DAC/DCJS/MAC) to which you belong.
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