Maison des Métallos
Maison des Métallos (cultural venue, 11th arrondissement): €2M paid by the City in 2019 and 42 Paris Council deliberations about it. The source of each item is given.
Source: Conseil de Paris, Bulletin municipal officiel, opendata.paris.fr, data as of 29 September 2026.
€2M
paid by the City for this place in 2019
The Maison des Métallos is a building located at 94 rue Jean-Pierre-Timbaud in the 11th arrondissement of Paris, France. Wikipedia ↗
One of 225 places · €2.9 B paid by the City
What the City funds here
€33.2M
paid · 2010–2025
Annual subsidy to the operator, Maison des Metallos →
€2M in 2010 · €2.3M in 2024 (the highest) · €2M in 2025
Click a year for its amount and the Conseil de Paris decision.
Works and renovation
€317k
paid · 2010–2013
€21k in 2010 · €156k in 2012 (the highest) · €550.78 in 2013
2025
At the Conseil de Paris
6 moments chosen from the 42 deliberations about this place.
MAY 2024Motion for emergency housing for homeless minors; contribution raised to €2.235M
The "Les Ecologistes" group filed a motion on the lasting sheltering of the "young people of the Maison des Métallos" and homeless minors; that same year, the contribution to the institution rose from €2,000,000 in May to €2,235,000 in November.Read the decision ↗JULY 2009Running costs set at €2M for the year; the director is retiring
Philippe DUCLOUX recalled an inauguration in November 2007 by Bertrand DELANOË after three years of prefiguration, put operating costs at €2 million as in 2008, the first full year, and announced the retirement of director Gérard PAQUET.Read the decision ↗JUNE 2007Works lot revalued from €8.3M to €8.7M, deadline extended
Amendments reassessed the four works lots: lot no. 1, all trades (BACOTRA), went from €8,325,434.93 to €8,697,162.82 including tax, with the deadline extended to 30 September 2007 for the facade cleaning works.Read the decision ↗NOVEMBER 2005A dedicated public body created to run the venue, bylaws and director set
The Council created a personalized public agency (régie personnalisée) to manage the Maison des Métallos, approved its bylaws, set its initial funding, and appointed its director general: the structure that would operate the venue was born during the works.Read the decision ↗JULY 2002Restructuring works approved, design studies contract launched
The Council approved the principle of restructuring works and a studies contract; Christophe GIRARD summed up the stakes with "this place must be saved" and mentioned urgent safety works, while the steering committee had set four focus areas and entrusted the prefiguration work to Gérard PAQUET.Read the decision ↗JANUARY 1999Preemption of the CGT metalworkers building requested, with no City commitment
Martine BILLARD asked the City to pre-empt the building that the Fédération C.G.T. métaux had had up for sale since June 1998; an inter-association collective proposed turning it into four facilities across 4,000 square meters, and the question notes that no City commitment had followed as of that date.Read the decision ↗2 more moments, 2004–2011
JULY 2011Financial management disputed; a €50,000 deficit resolved for 2011
David ALPHAND disputed the financial management — "the financial floodgates are being opened on the Maison des Métallos to try to save a project in cultural peril" — and Christophe GIRARD responded with a €50,000 reduction of the deficit for the 2011 financial year.Read the decision ↗JULY 2004The venue's purpose disputed: neither a small Opéra Bastille nor a community garage
On the project management contract, Khédija BOURCART relayed the Comité des Métallos's concerns about the architectural plans and framed the conflict over the venue's purpose: neither a "little Opéra Bastille in the heart of Bas-Belleville" nor an "association garage."Read the decision ↗Other places · Culture
