Musée-Placard d'Erik Satie

Founded in 1983 and curated by veteran Satie scholar Ornella Volta,[1] it was located in the 18th arrondissement of Paris at 6 Rue Cortot, Montmartre, France.

The "cupboard" museum consisted of a small utility room, measuring 3x3 meters (just under 10x10 feet), that Satie lived in from July 1896 to October 1898.

From 1890 he had previously occupied a larger room in the same building, but dire poverty forced him to move into this unheated ground floor closet, which the landlord offered him for 20 francs per quarter.

Reputedly one of the smallest museums in the world, it was not an actual reconstruction of the composer's prison cell-like living quarters.

[8] Due to lack of subsidies, Volta was forced to close the Musée-Placard d'Erik Satie in 2008.

6 Rue Cortot in Montmartre, Paris, where Satie lived from 1890 to 1898. The Musée-Placard d'Erik Satie was located here (1983-2008).
Erik Satie in 1898, when he was living in what he called the "cupboard".
6 Rue Cortot plaque, replicating Satie's calligraphic handwriting.