As a leading player in the economy, BNP Paribas has long been involved in actions that underscore its commitment to making a positive and proactive contribution to cultural and social life all over the world.

As a faithful partner of museums, the BNP Paribas Foundation aims to preserve museum collections and to make the wealth of art held by museums better known. The BNP Paribas Foundation published over fifty catalogues in French and English, and contributed to the restoration of over forty works of art, including great masterpieces as the Feast of the Levi by Paolo Veronese and The Apotheosis of Hercules, a ceiling painting by François Lemoine which is displayed in the Château de Versailles.

Key Values
By its decisions and choices, the foundation intends to promote the values of the group:

• Commitment, by being implicated with its partners;
• Ambition, by supporting creators, allowing the talents to develop to a higher level;
• Creativity, by supporting innovating projects, capable of helping the world around us to progress ;
• Reactivity, by being a force capable of mobilising strengths and detecting/profiting from new opportunities.