http://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.net/english/
Discover the Great Personality of Albert Kahn:
http://albert-kahn.hauts-de-seine.net/english/
.. Then get lost ans spend a few relaxing hours in his amazing gardens.. Definitely A MUST SEE in spring, especially the Japanese Garden!
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The four hectares (eight acres) of gardens, painstakingly restored and maintained in the spirit of their creator, show the different aspects of the art of gardening in the early 20th century.
Once passed doors of the exhibition gallery, visitors are in the Japanese parts: the old village, filled with temples, lanterns, stone paths edged, and the contemporary garden, a tribute to Albert Kahn’s life, with azaleas, and streams crossed by stone or timber bridges. Bamboo gates mark the entrance to formal French gardens, on the left, with a greenhouse, orchard, and rose garden, and to English garden, on the right (with green grass, false rock and cottage). Then, a forest of Blue Atlas cedars and Colorado spruces, whose low branches screen a small lily pond surrounded by a wild meadow. After crossing the meadow and passing through a group of slender birches, paths lead to a vast forest of conifers planted on steep, rocky soil, a reproduction of the Vosges Mountains near Kahn birthplace. Before 1936, when it opened to the public, this space devoted to world peace was visited only by dignitaries including various poets, philosophers (as Tagore) and Kings.
Albert-Kahn, museum and garden
10-14, rue du Port
92100 Boulogne-Billancourt
Tel: (33) 1 55 19 28 00
Opening days and times
From Tuesday to Sunday : 11a.m. to 6 p.m. (7 p.m. from May 1st till September 30th )
Last entrance 30 min. before closing.
Closed every Mondays, including public holidays.
Annual closure during Christmas and New Year holidays.
Getting there
Métro: Boulogne – Pont de Saint-Cloud (Line 10 terminus).
Bus: 52, 72, 126, 160, 175, 460, 467 (Rhin et Danube stop)
Tram: Line T2, alight at Parc de Saint-Cloud stop.
Admission fees
Full price : 4 €, Half-price : 2,5 €
Free for children under 12.
Free for all visitors on the first Sunday of every month.
Annual pass : 20 €
Schools : 1 € per child
There are no museum-guided tours except for groups on reservation.
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