“Here, this is my house. I don’t know what it is: a setting room, a music room, a brothel, a museum…”. These are the words Serge Gainsbourg used in 1979 to talk about his lair. A true place of pilgrimage since his death in 1991, his fans will finally be able to enter this house which links them inexorably to Serge Gainsbourg. This place arouses the curiosity of the French, and has rarely been open to the public. The place still breathes the Gainsbourian universe and holds all the artist’s bohemian spirit, even 30 years after his death. 5 bis Verneuil will welcome visitors within its walls to satisfy their curiosity. Open only since Tuesday April 4, the ticket office is already full until December. It was Charlotte, his daughter, who announced the news on her social networks, Sunday April 9, the day of her father’s 95th birthday. She confided to BFM TV, to feel “in panic” in the face of the realization of this tribute to her father. It must be said that the construction site began several years ago.
The museum of “the man with the head of cabbage” should welcome 100,000 annual visitors. The visit, which will include the composer-performer’s emblematic Parisian home as well as his museum dedicated to him on the sidewalk opposite, is already complete until December. However, it is still possible to book to visit the museum only. Charlotte Gainsbourg “hopes to offer the public a special experience, which will perhaps give a new way of listening to her work. An experience if possible at the height of what he left us”.
