President Macron confirms Notre Dame opening date plus plans for a new museum
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President Macron confirms Notre Dame opening date plus plans for a new museum Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Heritage news President Macron confirms Notre Dame opening date plus plans for a new museum While worshippers will be permitted to enter the cathedral by December 2024, a revamp of the surrounding area will continue Gareth Harris 11 December 2023 Share Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral after the devastating fire in 2019 Photo: Víctor Perea Ros via Wikimedia Commons The date for a partial reopening of Notre Dame has been confirmed as 8 December 2024, five and a half years after the fire that destroyed the historic monument located on Paris’s Île de la Cité in the Seine river. The date was confirmed by the French President Emmanuel Macron during a visit to the site on 8 December, according to the French newspaper Le Monde . Macron added that he hoped Pope Francis would attend the event and crucially also announced the creation of a museum in central Paris dedicated to Notre Dame, its history, its art and its reconstruction.