After a long period of uncertainty, the Minister of Culture Rachida Dati affirms: the House of press cartoons must open in Paris, in the 6th arrondissement, in 2027.
Unveiled in 2020, during the president's wishes to the press, the project to create a house of press cartoons seemed to have been forgotten. The government had announced that it wanted to found a unique place around the caricature and press cartoons, linked to press freedom. “ It will be a house, not a museum. The objective is to make it a living place, of pedagogy, of education in media and caricature, of refuge for cartoonists threatened in their country too. », specified theElysium.
This project saw the light of day after the attacks of January 2015 in Charlie Hebdo : the satirical newspaper was targeted by terrorists, after the publication of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed. A few months after the announcement of this project, Samuel Patty was murdered. This press cartoon house is therefore a tribute to the victims, but also to the journalists and cartoonists who continue to demand their freedom to express themselves.
On January 11, 2021, Emmanuel Macron declared that this house would be established in Paris, in an old school, rue du Pont-de-Lodiin the 6th arrondissement of Paris, not far from Notre-Dame de Paris. Since then, no more news. The lack of progress on this project had worried the associations promoting press cartoons.
This November 28, 2024, an official press release from Ministry of Culture has given hope to those involved in this project. Rachida Data assures that work will begin at the end of 2025, with an opening to the public planned for later this year 2027. The House of Press Cartoons finally seems to be taking shape.
This 1,500 m² place will be “ dedicated to the knowledge, development and dissemination of this unique form of expression, between art and journalism, between politics and society, between illustration and caricature, which is the press cartoon. »
The House of Press Cartoons has three main missions: preserve and display works which retrace more than 200 years of history of press cartoons in France, and highlight French and foreign drawings produced at different periods; welcome artists press cartoons and give them a creative space; and finally, to transmit, learn, make press cartoons and their importance understood to the general public, and in particular to school audiences.
The mayor of the 6th arrondissement, Jean-Pierre Lecoq (LR), commented: “ Every day we see the need for a free press, the various conflicts in the world as well as the national political situation prove this to us. This house will be there to defend freedom of expression, while being a place of culture, education and meetings.. »
See you in 2027 to discover this new place in Paris.
