Gare RER Pont de l'Alma Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac
The Pont de l'Alma - Musée du quai Branly - Jacques Chirac is a railway station of the Invalides line, located in the 7th district of Paris.
It owes its name to the Alma Bridge, which commemorates the Battle of the Alma, a Franco-British and Ottoman victory over the Russians in 1854 in the Crimea.
Opened on April 15, 1900 by the Western Railway Company, it is today a station of the French National Railway Company (SNCF).
This station closed on July 25, 2017 for renovation. It reopened on September 15, 2019 and is now served by RER Line C trains.
In 2015, according to SNCF estimates, the annual frequentation of the station was 4,163,400 passengers.
Station ticket offices in 2016
Ticket offices and one of the entrances to the station, after its reopening in 2019
Alma Bridge train Station
The Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac is a museum featuring the indigenous art and cultures of Africa, Asia, Oceania, and the Americas. The museum collection comprises more than a million objects (ethnographic objects, photographs, documents, etc.), of which 3,500 are on display at any given time, in both permanent and temporary thematic exhibits.
The museum was inaugurated on June 20, 2006 by Jacques Chirac under the name Musée du quai Branly, after the street alongside which it is built, a quay of the Seine named for the scientist Edouard Branly (1844 -1940). On June 21, 2016, ten years after its inauguration, the museum took the name of former President Jacques Chirac, who initiated the project
