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Refresh Project: revitalising a local UK charity

BNP Paribas Securities Services UK have been working with local charity, Hackney Quest, over the last year on a number of different activities. Recently, ten volunteers from the London office helped out with their ‘refresh project’ to brighten and repaint their local centre during the Easter Holidays.
This gave BNP Paribas employees the opportunity to work [...]

A painting in search of light

As a loyal and recognised museum sponsor, BNP Paribas Foundation seeks to preserve and to help increase the awareness of museums’ treasures by supporting the restoration of their masterpieces through its “BNP Paribas for Art” program. [...]

Restoration at the Quimper Museum of Fine Arts

After having published the album on the permanent collections at the Quimper Museum of Fine Arts in 1993, the BNP Paribas Foundation has just signed a patronage agreement covering the restoration of a set of early Italian paintings that are kept at the museum.

Founded in 1864 to receive the exceptional collection of paintings bequeathed by [...]

Intercultural music sharing

Created in 2001 through the goodwill of a collective of artists and instrument makers, the association Culture and Cooperation follows a double objective: to initiate and implement cooperative musical projects and help with the development of cultural activities; to produce and play musical performances depicting intercultural dialogue.
A historic figure of philanthropy in France, BNP Paribas [...]

Conservation and return of rare beadwork to Peranakan Museum

The sponsorship by BNP Paribas Singapore Branch and BNP Paribas Foundation is the first of its kind for the National Heritage Board. One of the Peranakan Museum’s star artefacts will make its return to the museum today. The rare beadwork tablecloth – which is one of the world’s largest and finest examples of Peranakan beadwork [...]

Manuscripts Don’t Burn

For almost a year now, Ukrsibbank, BNP Paribas subsidiary in Ukraine, supports the house of the internationally acclaimed writer Mikhail Bulgakov.
The author of the world classic “The Master and Margarita” once wrote that “manuscripts don’t burn”, a phrase has been prophetic for his world fame and for the ceaseless love of readers. It also holds [...]

“Petals and the Garden of Nymph Ancolie” recaptures its original colours

The famous mural by Max Ernst “Petals and the Garden of the Nymph Ancolie”, which for many years adorned the walls of the Dancing Mascotte, a nightclub in Zurich’s Corso Theatre, underwent restoration in the latter part of 2008.
BNP Foundation in Switzerland is proud to have offered its support for this restoration project, which [...]

Vision impaired people can now access a museum in Athens

BNP Paribas in Greece participated in the creation of a special program, designed to assist vision impaired people to visit the Byzantine and Christian Museum in Athens. First of its kind in Greece, the initiative provides a tactile tour for the permanent collections of the museum.  The visitors are given the opportunity to  perceive the [...]

Paintings restoration in Museum van Loon in Amsterdam

The BNP Paribas Foundation and BNP Paribas The Netherlands support financially the restoration of 18th century panels painted by Juriaan Andriessen at Museum Van Loon in Amsterdam. In 1976 six wall paintings by Jurriaan Andriessen have been installed in the historical canalhouse, now the Museum van Loon in Amsterdam. The panels were originally made for [...]