Opened June 7, 2013, the Museum of Civilization in Europe and the Mediterranean (MuCEM) was soon known success (3.4 million visitors between June 2013 and September 2014) due to the attraction of the flagship designed by architect Rudy Riciotti. What’s behind this success is a little less rosy. The Court of Auditors draws up a damning assessment of the conduct of the project, which was to transfer a Paris museum (the National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions) in Marseille broadening its spectrum to the civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean.
Nothing worked as it should, opening even having been delayed from 2008 to 2013, because the operation was poorly orchestrated by officials of the Ministry of Culture. The relocation of the collections has dragged on, causing swelling of personnel expenses. The price of construction sites for Riciotti building and renovation of Fort Saint-Jean skidded: the cost of operations has increased from 88 to 160 million euros between 2009 and 2011.
public-private partnership (PPP) devised for the center where they keep their objects from Paris and unexposed turns out, according to the court, too expensive “for a building whose management is much less complex”
Very insufficient revenue
The court therefore has a stern look on the young spent MuCEM. His vision of the future is no more comforting. The collections come from Paris will be expanded to take account of the European and Mediterranean vocation MuCEM. The court added that “much of the maintenance and maintenance costs (…) remains uncertain.”
The building incorporates innovations Riciotti (pumps in the moat, high-tech materials …) the long-term maintenance could be costly. So who will pay? Problem for the court, past fads first months, revenues MuCEM likely to be much lower than the generally accepted standard for national museums (43% of operating costs). Fortunately, there is public money …
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