Maison des Musiciens in Reims

The Maison des Musiciens, also known as the Maison des Ménétriers, is a classified architectural ensemble located in Reims. Attested since the 13th century, the building originally stood at numbers 18 and 20 on the rue de Tambour. It featured a two-story structure with dormers above a common cellar. The first floor had four rectangular windows and five niches in the piers where sculptures larger than life were housed. At ground level, there were shops in narrow windows with semicircular arches and a large porch of the same structure.

In the 14th century, the building was part of the Quarré de la Grant Marche. It appears in a 13th-century necrology as rue Vicus Monetarium and in a 1322 register as rue des Monnoyers. While only the maison des comtes de Champagne remains on the rue de Tambour today, it occupies the courtyard and location of the musicians' house. To see the five musicians in their original context, visitors can go to the museum where the first floor is restored.

Due to destructions, the house was destroyed, but the facade was partially saved after being dismantled in 1917 and was reassembled in a room at the Saint-Remi museum. A project of reconstruction for the facade and the five statues of the Maison des Musiciens is currently being led by the association Renaissance de la Maison des Musiciens.

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