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Cité de la musique

group of buildings dedicated to music in the Parc de la Villette, Paris, France
Organization cultural_center Q111713330
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Summary

Cité de la musique is a cultural center[1]. It draws 480 Wikipedia views per month (cultural center category, ranking #19 of 130).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: 19th arrondissement of Paris[3]
  • Country: France[4]
  • Instance of: building[5], museum[6], music venue[7], concert hall[8]
  • Architect: Christian de Portzamparc[9]
  • Operator: La Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris[10]
  • Part of: La Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris[11]
  • Commons category: Cité de la musique[12]
  • Has part(s): Musée de la musique[13]
  • Inception: January 12, 1995[14]
  • Heritage designation: Remarkable Contemporary Architecture[15]

Why It Matters

Cité de la musique has Wikipedia articles in 12 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[16] It is known by 11 alternative names across languages and contexts.[17]

Related Entities

France

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . ina.fr. ina.fr. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [16] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [17] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 6d ago · Chabe01 · 2026-10-14 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Heritage designation → Remarkable Contemporary Architecture
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/59767|batch #59767]]"
  2. 9d ago · Arch2bot bot · 2026-10-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['az', 'ca', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'it', 'lmo', 'nl', 'ru', '
    Instance of → cultural center, building, museum +2
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Instance of: concert hall, Lookup from archINFORM"
  3. 13w ago · RSVScribe · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → cultural center, building, museum +2
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1|1 */ Inception: 12 January 1995"
  4. 13w ago · RSVScribe · 2026-07-19 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → cultural center, building, museum +2
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: museum"
  5. 13w ago · RSVScribe · 2026-07-17 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Followed by → —
    Part of → La Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris
    Architect → Christian de Portzamparc
    Inception → +1995-01-12T00:00:00Z
    "/* wbsetclaim-update:2||1 */ Inception: 12 January 1995"
  6. 16w ago · RSVScribe · 2026-06-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Operator → La Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris
    Inception → —
    Instance of → —
    Part of → —
    + 15 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Instance of: building"
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