The BnF needs a “massive renovation” of more than 500 million euros, according to a senatorial report

Pharaonic projects are piling up to renovate the State’s major cultural establishments. After the Pompidou Center and the Louvre, after the Château de Chambord and the Paris Opera, after the Natural History Museum and the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, where each time the work to be carried out amounts to several hundred million euros, even a billion, a new senatorial report published on May 26 points to “the massive renovation” that the François Mitterrand site of the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF), inaugurated at the end of 1996.

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