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Musée d'Orsay – Valéry Giscard d'Estaing station, Paris — Île-de-France Mobilités

Name: Unveiling of the Musée d'Orsay – Valéry Giscard d'Estaing station name, Île-de-France Mobilités
Start: 2023
Location: Musée d'Orsay forecourt

An RER C station renamed, a formal ceremony in the heart of a public space.

Set-up, at dawn

01 · The brief

What we had to get right.

Stage, on the forecourt of the Musée d'Orsay, the ceremony unveiling the new name of the RER C station, attended by elected officials, the family of the former President of the Republic and many public figures.

The challenge

Build a formal ceremony in a public space, overnight, and hand the forecourt back to the museum before the afternoon private view.

Our scope

Permit applications, marquee and technical set-up, security, welcome and protocol, replica of the plaque, photo exhibition.

In pictures

One morning, two hundred and fifty guests.

7 photos

Two hundred and fifty guests under the marquee

Guests250

Year2023

Photos © Île-de-France Mobilités

250guests

The result

Two hundred and fifty guests, elected officials and members of the former President's family gathered on the forecourt to discover the station's new name: a ceremony held on time, in a secured public space, and a forecourt handed back to the museum on schedule.

Date2023

VenueParisth

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