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The Franco-American Museum at the Chateau de Blérancourt is currently closed due to the following discoveries:

 

Vestiges no doubt from the XVIth or XVIIth centuries were uncovered last year by workers on the site of our construction project. All work was immediately stopped in order to enable a group of eminent archeologists to study the vestiges and suggest a plan for preservation and integration.

Yves Lion, our architect, will study how best to integrate the vestiges into our French-American Project, illustrating four centuries of relations between France and America, but at the same time evoke the history of Solomon de Brosse’s beautiful chateau.

Our sister organization, the Amis du Musée, has decided to make an important contribution to the future museum and refurbish and restore the museum’s two entrance pavilions or gatehouses. It was in one of these two pavilions that Anne Morgan chose to live when in Blerancourt. The second gatehouse was transformed into the museum library and inaugurated as such in 1991 by former First Lady Nancy Reagan and Madame Bernadette Chirac.

Once the proposed reconstruction project is completed, estimated at 2011-2012, the museum will reopen with a new and enhanced aspect. The beautiful gardens, however, remain open to the public during the construction phase.