Musée Du Cinema – Henri Langlois
History
The museum was created as "Musée du cinéma Henri-Langlois" in 1972 by Henri Langlois (1914–1977), a cinema enthusiast who also founded the Cinémathèque française. The museum was located in Paris in the Palais de Chaillot, 1 place du Trocadéro.
The Musée du cinéma Henri-Langlois was evacuated when the roof of the neighbor building, the Museum of French monuments sculpture, was damaged by fire in 1997. The museum was then subject to an unusual court case when the Cinémathèque française attempted to store the collection for safety reasons, in which it was successfully argued that the museum was "unquestionably the creative work of one man and therefore protected under the law" and hence could not be disbanded. This decision was handed down several months after the 1997 fire.
In 2005, the Musée du Cinéma – Henri Langlois and the Cinémathèque française were relocated in the former American Center in Paris, built by Frank Gehry in the Parc de Bercy, and merged in 2007 with the Bibliothèque du film (BiFi). In addition to cycles dedicated to directors and cinemas of the world, the Cinémathèque presents temporary exhibitions, inaugurated in 2005, with "Renoir/Renoir".