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Niels Strøyer Christophersen Designer og grunnlegger av FRAMA - København Zadkine Museum in Paris is dedicated to the memory and the work of Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967), a sculptor of Russian origin, who lived and worked in the house and its studios, between 1928 and 1967. This place of conservation, opened in 1982, was created through the bequest of Valentine Prax, the sculptor’s widow and herself a painter, to the City of Paris, which was named as the universal legatee of her possessions.

Located nearby the Luxembourg Gardens, the Zadkine Museum is nestled within its own verdant gardens, populated with sculptures. This was the house and workshop where Ossip Zadkine (1890-1967), a Russian sculptor and major figure in the School of Paris, lived and worked from 1928 to 1967. After a year of renovation work to ensure its accessibility to all visitors, the museum re-opened its doors for its thirtieth anniversary on the 10th of October 2012 and presented its collections, now redesigned to more closely reflect the spirit of the workshop. The new museum course was designed to stimulate under the light of glass roofs the dialogue between earth, cement, wood and stone, refering to the intimate truth of a space that, before becoming a museum, was first a space for the creation of forms.

Jeg holder meget af dette museum fordi stemningen er helt unik. Man mærker stedets særlige atmosfære som har huset et meget passioneret menneske og som samtidig ligger i én af min favorit byer, Paris. Zadkine Museet har en særlig ro og balance og en smuk kombination af arkitektur, kunst og natur.