Fondation Custodia

You are standing before the Hotel Turgot, an eighteenth-century private mansion that serves as the home of the Fondation Custodia. This building is a rare survivor, as it is the only one left from a series of seven similar houses originally constructed on this street in seventeen forty-three. Behind its historic facade lies an institution dedicated to the safekeeping and study of art history, with the name Custodia itself derived from the Latin word for guard. Continue