Exhibitions: Notre Dame after the Fire

The construction barriers that surround Paris’s Notre Dame cathedral these days are full of information on the Cathedral’s history and construction and now reconstruction as the work of rebuilding takes place behind the wall. But that’s not all that’s on the wall: It’s also displaying tributes and impressions created by school children in Paris and nearby cities, with even a few contributions from farther out. The designs started with a call from Michel Aupetit, Archbishop of Paris, six months

Three years after the fire that badly damaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, a traveling exhibition that uses augmented reality to explore the church’s thousand-year history and its ongoing reconstruction is opening at Washington’s National Building Museum. Notre-DameThe exhibition, which is also on view at sites in France, uses augmented reality and a ‘HistoPad’ tablet to animate and recreate events in the cathedral’s history, including its building and alteration over the years. It also

No, really. There’s a case to be made for the headline, and it’s a case backed up by an exhibit that’s ongoing at the Archaeological Crypt at Notre Dame itself. Titled ‘Notre–Dame de Paris, from Victor Hugo to Eugène Viollet-le-Duc,’ it describes how Hugo’s novel, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (in French, titled Notre Dame de Paris) caught the public’s attention at a time when the French government was considering demolishing the badly-deteriorated building. The wave of interest the novel stirred