Charlotte Gainsbourg announced on Sunday that her father’s house on rue de Verneuil, which has remained intact since the singer’s death in 1991, would open on September 20, as well as a museum. One hundred thousand visitors are expected each year.
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This is the epilogue of a soap opera of more than thirty years: the Maison Gainsbourg, the mythical Parisian home of Serge Gainsbourg and a dedicated museum on the sidewalk opposite, will open its doors on September 20, announced its daughter Charlotte Gainsbourg Sunday April 2.
Charlotte Gainsbourg “hopes to offer the public a unique experience, which will perhaps give a new hearing to his work. An experience if possible at the height of what he left us”.
The residence for “a dive into the intimate”
Since his death in 1991, fans of “man with the cabbage head” make a pilgrimage to 5 bis rue de Verneuil in Paris (7th arrondissement) and dream of going there to discover the intimacy of the singer-songwriter. The interior, with its musical instruments, memorabilia and trinkets carefully arranged by himself, “has remained intact since its disappearance in 1991”.
Charlotte Gainsbourg, actress and singer, has ended the wait, “very happy and touched to announce the opening of Maison Gainsbourg” September 20, in a press release. The course “will begin with a visit to the House (5 bis rue de Verneuil), an intimate dive”, she details. Serge Gainsbourg lived for twenty-two years at 5 bis, the interior of which has not changed, write the people in charge of the place.
The museum to trace the life and work of Gainsbourg
“Then a stone’s throw away, the Museum (14 rue de Verneuil) will retrace my father’s life through his works and his collection of emblematic pieces.“. In addition to a museum dedicated to the author of Javanese And I don’t love you either the museum will offer “a bookstore-boutique and the Gainsbarre, café and piano bar“.
The date of this communication is not chosen at random: this Sunday, April 2 marks the 95th anniversary of the birth of Serge Gainsbourg.
The Maison Gainsbourg expects to welcome nearly 100,000 visitors a year and will also offer, according to its managers, “cultural programming in situ, digital and outside the wallsThe ticket office opens from Tuesday April 4, exclusively online (maisongainsbourg.fr). The first tickets will be available for reservations from September to December 2023.
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