French Heritage Society fosters the education of tomorrow’s preservationists from the US and France. Education has always been a central focus of its activities. Special programs of interest to art historians, architects, artisans, students and the public are offered. FHS and its chapters also sponsor an annual roster of lectures, excursions, museum visits, and other activities.
French Heritage Society has developed partnership programs with prestigious host institutions. The program, with approximately 25 students per summer, offers unique opportunities in France, at Versailles’ National School of Landscape Architecture, the Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris, the Domaine de Chantilly, the Franco-American Museum of Blérancourt and numerous private châteaux. A recent internship was at a private professional restoration workshop specializing in works by Le Brun, that had restored his paintings in the Hall of Mirrors at the Château de Versailles.
In the US, French students have internships at the Historic Preservation Society of Newport (RI), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, and take part in horticultural internships with Magnolia Gardens in Charleston (SC), Historic New England Collection (MA), Stratford Hall Plantation (VA) or in Louisiana at the Historic New Orleans Collection, Old Ursuline Convent, the African-American Museum and Laura Plantation.
Over the years French Heritage Society has developed collaborative relationships with numerous distinguished universities in the US and France whose students benefit from this program (Princeton, Cornell, Harvard, Smithsonian-Corcoran College of Art, Ecole du Louvre, La Sorbonne, the National School of Landscape Architecture in Versailles, etc.)
French Heritage Society
14 E 60th Street, #605
New York, NY 10022-7131
Tel: +1 (212) 759-6846
Fax: +1 (212) 759-9632
French Heritage Society
7 rue Lincoln
75008 Paris, France
Tel: +33 (0) 1 40 70 07 57
Fax: +33 (0) 1 40 70 07 86