The staircase and reception halls of the Palais Conti

The staircase
From the first landing, a huge stone staircase splits into two side flights with banisters decorated with balusters. On the first floor, around the stairwell, a peristyle of sixteen Ionic pillars supports a vault decorated with coffers painted in trompe-l'œil, lit up by an overhead glass roof.

The Dupre Hall
From the landing, an antechamber leads to the "salle Dupre", a sumptuous hall which bears the name of the sculptor and medal maker Guillaume Dupre (1574-1647).
Built between 1777 and 1787, in 1783 it housed the first Ecole des Mines (National School of Mining and Engineering), before welcoming the first Coin Museum from 1827 to 1983.
The "salle Dupre" has retained its superb decor. Flanked by twenty stucco pillars, it is surmounted by a gallery above which rises an elliptic dome.
An oil painting - the work of J.J. Weerts - decorates the ceiling. It portrays "the temple of the 1889 World Fair" and is dated 1892.


The exhibition rooms
Situated along the Seine, these rooms house temporary exhibitions organised by the Monnaie de Paris.