The organisation of the Musée de Cluny

A dedicated team committed to serving both the collections and the public
The Musée de Cluny is a service with nationwide competence under the authority of the Ministry of Culture. Opened in 1844, it brings together extensive collections of national significance covering the end of Antiquity and the entire mediaeval period. A team of nearly 75 people brings it to life every day through the various missions it undertakes (preservation, understanding and showcasing the collections, cultural programming, public engagement, and security, etc.) in close collaboration with institutional partners.

Key figures

304 392
visitors in 2025
197 664
followers on social media in 2024
74
artworks on loan in 2024
6
artworks acquired in 2024
5 912
artworks collected in 2024
1 115
participants in the cultural twinning programme with the town of Sartrouville

The overall strategy of the establishment is based on a scientific and cultural framework that will be revised in the coming months. 

Read the museum’s activity report.

The museum's management team © Élisa Haberer, Musée de Cluny - musée national du Moyen Âge

The team 

Séverine Lepape, Chief Curator Of Heritage, has been the director of the Musée de Cluny since 2019, following her appointment by the Minister of Culture. 

She is an archivist-paleographer and specialist in the field of mediaeval iconography, illumination and printing with a doctorate in mediaeval history from the EHESS (School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences) under the direction of Jean-Claude Schmitt. She held a position at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (National Library of France) from 2005 to 2014, initially overseeing the collection of prints and drawings from the 15th and 16th centuries, and later as the head of the Reserve collection in the Department of Prints and Photography. From 2014 to 2019, Séverine Lepape was a curator at the Louvre Museum, in the Department of Graphic Arts, responsible for the Edmond de Rothschild collection.

She leads a team of nearly 75 people, supported by Marie-France Cocheteux, the museum’s secretary-general. 

You can see the museum’s organisational chart here. 

Visitors at the museum reception desk
 © Agence LE MENU–Arthur M.Burt / musée de Cluny – musée national du Moyen Âge

Our partners

As a service with nationwide competence (SCN), the Musée de Cluny is a service of the Ministry of Culture. It reports to the French Museums Department, within the Directorate-General for Heritage and Architecture. 

The Ministry of Culture has entrusted the GrandPalaisRmn, through an agreement, with the task of carrying out a range of activities for the national museums SCN. The GrandPalaisRmn is thereby responsible for managing admissions, the bookstore, ticketing, and online bookings for activities at the Musée de Cluny, as well as providing tour guides for individuals as well as workshops, co-producing exhibitions, associated exhibition catalogues, and publications such as guides or catalogues raisonées for the collections.