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The digital projection room

The Nave: This central area in the Grand Palais has been at the centre of the cultural and social life of the French capital for over a century. With Europe’s biggest glass roof, the Nave has been entirely restored and offers 145,000 sq.ft of magnificent, naturally lit floor space.
The Fine Arts Staircase: With its curves and coils, the Fine Arts Staircase is a generous and inviting venue where guests entering from the avenue Winston-Churchill can receive a customised welcome and ushered through to the Nave.
The Paddock: Located in the Nave, facing the entrance, the paddock owes its name to the horse shows that were once organised there. With its Great Staircase, it offers a sumptuous setting for evening receptions, dinners and congresses…
The Balcony of Honour: This modular area has a magnificent full view over the Nave and can be tailored to create a very personal atmosphere for your events.
The digital projection room: With a capacity of 104 seats, the projection room is all-digital.

The Clock Balcony: An area of 3,750 sq. ft , the clock balcony faces the great staircase and offers perhaps the finest view of the Nave.
The South-east Gallery: Covering an area of around 2,500 sq.ft, this first floor gallery offers tremendous potential for programming public events. Availble in 2011.
The VIP Lounge: A superb facility that is paradoxically a well-kept secret, the VIP Lounge is right in the heart of the Grand Palais. It offers an area of 12,800 square feet under a glass roof. Available during the second semester of 2011.

The Grand Palais has always been a temple of the creative arts and a home to imagination in every form, but it lacked a facility of outstanding quality in which to celebrate the 7th art. The inauguration of the 104-seater projection room brings it just that.

The new projection room © Coll. Grand Palais

Dedicated to private screenings, performances, lectures and debates, the facility will offer a high level of comfort with a warm, understated decor – dark wood and brown fabric for the walls, and silver grey velvet seat covers – and exceptional picture quality. In fact it will be the only cinema in Paris to have a 4K digital projector. This fine facility cannot fail to draw movie fans and lovers of audio-visual heritage!

The projection room has been inaugurated as the first stage in the 2008-2010 action plan for the Grand Palais. Accessed via the Alexandre-III rotunda, it has been enhanced by substantial renovation work, transforming a former lecture hall dating from the 1960s and used by the Sorbonne University into a state-of-the-art facility! Hidden away on the first floor of the building, the brand new room will also offer a superb view over the Seine through a strip window, until the lights are brought down to produce the magical intimacy of the cinema! Quiet on the set! Roll! Action!

Practical information

Capacity: 104 seats
Floor space: 110 m2 (1,180 sq. ft.)

Access via the Alexandre III Rotunda (on the corner of avenue Winston-Churchill and Cours-la-Reine)
Cocktails can be arranged in the restaurant or the area located below the projection room. New areas will be available as from Q2 2009.