The Foundation for the Safe-keeping and Development of the Chantilly Domain covers the Château de Chantilly, the grounds and gardens as well as the Great Stables that house the Living Museum of the Horse). Created in 2005, on the initiative of His Highness the Aga Khan, the Foundation has been granted management of the heritage site by the Institut de France for a period of twenty years.

The aims of the Foundation:
- To ensure the continuation of the Estate, in accordance with the legacy of the Duke of Aumale, by guaranteeing lasting economic and environmental development.
- Making the Chantilly Domain a landmark in the world cultural landscape:
• enabling it to become a model of public satisfaction, restoration of this heritage site, lasting development and creating joint ventures,
• seeking excellence in all of the strategies and actions implemented,
• introducing a new dynamic to management of the Estate.

From 2007, the Domain will offer improvements aimed at a wider public, including:
- opening up new rooms in the Château,
- opening the gardens and arranging thematic tours of the grounds,
- performances,
- not forgetting to provide entertainment for children and arranging special tours for them.

The heritage and its restoration
Priority has been given to the restoration of the grounds and its buildings due to its role in consolidating the whole estate, its interest for a wider general public, the possibilities it offers for cultural events and the richness of its offerings.
The restoration of the interior of the Château has been accelerated in order to expand public access, improve the quality of the tour, the presentation of the exhibits and the interior décor and the conservation conditions for the collections provided by the conservators.

Restoration works planned for 2007 to 2009:
In the grounds:
• Grand Prospect by Le Nôtre (2007-2009)
• Hameau (2007-2008)
• Small Maze (2007-2008) for opening to the public in 2010
• Sylvie’s Park (Large Maze, 2007-2008) for opening to the public in 2010
• English garden (botanical aspect, 2007-2009)

Certain works are designed more particularly to bring together the Estate as a whole:
• Jardin de la Volière (works and opening to the public - 2007)
• Jeu de Paume: opening to the public and conversion into an exhibition area (2007)


Inside the Château :
• Grande Singerie (monkey house) (2007)
• Loggia and Débotté (2007)
• Lighting in the Small Apartments (2007)
• Glazing in the Gallery of Paintings (2008)
• Theatre library (2008)
• The Duchess’s dressing-room (2008)
• Apartment of the aide-de-camp (2008-2009)

Restoration of the collections:
• Italian paintings exhibited in the Gallery of Paintings and the Tribune Room of the Condé Museum (2007)
• sixteenth- to nineteenth-century miniatures in the Cabinet des Gemmes (2007)
• busts of the Emperors in the Jardin de la Volière
• sculptures on the staircase and the Galerie des Cerfs
• sculptures of Marie of Orleans

Preventive conservation measures were begun in early 2007.

Investment
For the period 2007-2009, the projected investments amount to more than 20 million euros. Finance will be provided by the Foundation and its public institutional partners, the Institut de France, the French Government, the Conseil régional de Picardie, the Conseil général de l’Oise and by private philanthropists (Amis du musée Condé, Fondation BNP Paribas, Salmson, Veolia Environnement, World Monuments Fund).