Associative partners

ASSOCIATION DES AMIS DU MUSEE DE LA MARINE

Musée de la Marine
Palais de Chaillot
Place du Trocadéro
75116 Paris, France
Phone : 01 53 65 69 64

Website : http://www.amis-musee-marine.net

Composition of the Executive Committee :

• President : Alain REGARD
• Vice-president : Daniel-Henri VINCENT
• General Secretary : Michel MANTIN
• Treasurer : Renaud DOHET

The Association was created in 1930 and groups together around 3500 paid up members.

Since 1946, the Association publishes NEPTUNIA, a magazine concerning maritime history, naval archaeology and scale models. The complete collection of these magazines constitutes an encyclopaedia, widely read throughout the world as much by university researchers as by those with a passion for anything to do with the sea.

The Association runs bookstores in the different port establishments dependant on the Marine Museum. These bookstores offer maritime works, objects and souvenirs relating to the museum. Discussions are underway in order to make French Lines by-products, manufactured under license, available for sale in the different museum boutiques.

The Association edits catalogues of the major exhibitions organised by the museum as well as monographs destined for scale modellers, including the history of the vessel to be built, its plans and photographs with details to include to obtain a lifelike model.

Each year, the association organises a study trip abroad (Turkey in 1997, Portugal in 1998 and the East coast of the USA in 1999) as well as trips in France to maritime sites which are not easily accessible to the general public.

Finally, the Association runs groups for scale modellers in Paris and province, in particularly in Brest. These groups regularly meet up at conferences and exhibitions.

ASSOCIATION DES AMIS DES PAQUEBOTS

Headquarters :
Service historique de la Marine
Pavillon de la Reine
Château de Vincennes
94300 Vincennes, France

Correspondence :
Musée de la Marine
Palais de Chaillot
Place du Trocadéro
75116 Paris, France

The Association counts around 300 people who are ‘interested in the conservation and protection of archives and documents on the famous liners and the history of navigation’. The aim of the Association is to look into all steps that may be taken in order to contribute towards these aims, and to initiate means of getting themselves known.

The Association regularly organises conferences and exhibitions for its members.

The Association distributes a quarterly newsletter, ‘COURSIVE’, that brings the members up to date with the ‘News on Liners and Cruisers’ and communicates any information that might be of interest to its members.

The Club des Amis des Croisières is an offshoot of the Association. The club is run by Doctor Michel RAOUX, 22 Avenue Galliéni, 78110 Le Vésinet, Tel : 01 39 76 70 02. He organises cruises and visits of liners for the Association members.

ASSOCIATION HAVRAISE DES AMIS DES PAQUEBOTS

Headquarters :
Avenue Lucien Corbeaux
76600 Le Havre

Correspondance :
31, rue Mougeot
76620 Le Havre

President : Claude Godé

The aim of the Association is the conservation of souvenirs from vessels, evidence of a major human adventure, and this through :

• The gathering together of collectors and other people interested in the history of liners and other vessels of all sorts, sizes and nationalities.
• Creation of links between members or other Associations in order to enable reciprocal exchanges of written documents or photographs and of knowledge.
• Cataloguing, safeguarding and protecting all documents or objects concerning the history of liners or other vessels.
• Participation with the Tourist Office at the welcome ceremonies for liners on call.
• Design of technical cards and presentation displays of vessels on call.
• Organisation of exhibitions of photos, documents, projections of slides.
• Use of a maritime library and specialised magazines.

Two monthly meetings take place on the last Sunday of the month and two weeks before this last Sunday, from 9.30am until 12.00am at the headquarters of the Association (Entry next to Chais de la Transat and second floor on the left). The yearly contribution is fixed at 120FF.

ASSOCIATION MUSEE MARITIME ET PORTUAIRE DU HAVRE

Espace maritime et portuaire des docks Vauban
Quai Frissard 76600 Le Havre
Phone : 02 35 24 51 00
Fax : 02 35 26 76 69
President : William Aubry

From 1979, several people from Le Havre, who deeply regretted that Le Havre had no museum specially dedicated to the maritime and port heritage, decided, on the initiative of Mr Jean Guestre to create an Association ‘For the museum of maritime and land transports’. In 1981, the Association managed to obtain the permission from the Port Autonome of Le Havre to use warehouse 22, situated on the edge of the basin of the Citadelle. Various elements from the heritage, deposits, donations or loans, including four floating vessels permitted over a period of time, the constitution of invaluable collections many of which are unique in France. A workshop for restoration and creation of scale models was created and is nationally recognised today.

At the same time in 1984, at the initiative of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Le Havre another Association was formed known as the ‘Centre Culturel Maritime du Havre’ for the creation of a ‘Centre de culture scientifique et technique’, consecrated to maritime and port activities in Le Havre and supported by institutions, territorial authorities and the state.

In 1991, to unite their efforts, these two Associations merged and became the Association ‘Musée Maritime et Portuaire du Havre’.

From 1989, warehouse 22 which was regularly opened to the public and presented a permanent exhibition ‘La mer au hangar 22’, retracing the history of maritime and port activities in Le Havre from the 19^th century to the present day, which enjoyed a great success with the public.

The demolition of warehouse 22, in order to build a new terminal for cross channel traffic, led to the transfer of the museum into part of the former Customs warehouses, the first dock buildings erected in France, better known as ‘docks Vauban’. The scale of the work, in particular the renovation and the compliance with safety standards of a place disused for more than 10 years, meant that the museum could not be reopened as rapidly as hoped despite all the support given.

The links formed with the French Lines Association and Le Havre, the support of institutions, local authorities and the State, the actions of numerous volunteers and sponsors, today allows for the presentation of some of the most remarkable pieces from the collections of the Association ‘Musée Maritime et Portuaire du Havre’ in the Espace maritime et portuaire des docks Vauban, and also serves to make visitors aware of the importance of this large Normandy port.

ASSOCIATION DES AMIS DE LA FONDATION
DU PATRIMOINE MARITIME ET FLUVIAL

3, square Desaix
75015 Paris
Tel : 01 44 49 85 92
Fax : 01 44 49 85 90

• President : Philippe d'ORSAY
• Vice-Presidents : L'Amiral Jean-Noël TURCAT, Jacques-Henri CHAUVEAU et Yann GONTHIER
• General Secretary : Bernard DUJARDIN
• Treasurer : Daniel DREUMONT

FONDATION DU PATRIMOINE MARITIME ET FLUVIAL

3, square Desaix 75015 Paris
Tel : 01 44 49 85 92
Fax : 01 44 49 85 90
President : Gérard d'ABBOVILLE

OFFICE DE LA MER DU BASSIN DE VIE DE MARSEILLE

Siège social :
72 rue de la République, 13002 Marseille
Tél : 04 91 90 93 93 - Fax : 04 91 90 64 51

Accueil Public :
6 rue Fort Notre Dame
13007 Marseille
Tél : 04 91 90 94 90
ouvert du mardi au samedi de 10h à 17h

website : http://www.officedelamer.com