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Treasures of provincial museums: the return of sunny days at Mucem

2020-06-04T15:02:09.850Z


Pending the reopening of Rudy Ricciotti's large cube on Monday, June 29, two officials from this Marseille cultural hotspot offer a half-hour virtual tour, this Wednesday from 6 p.m. This meeting closes our series of videos to discover the wonders of our French museums and monuments.


Inaugurated seven years ago on June 7, when Marseille was European captain of culture, the Mucem closes our tour of France of confined cultural places.

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This impressive center dedicated to the civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean will not reopen until Monday, June 29. Entrance into the usually paying spaces of this large cube of concrete lace signed Rudy Ricciotti and posed at the entrance to the Old Port will be free. And this until July 21 included. This measure aims to adjust a redesigned tour circuit, with a much smaller gauge than before the health crisis.

But until then, to whet our appetite, without wearing a mandatory mask or barrier measures, a virtual visit will be freely available on your computer screen or your smartphone from 6 p.m. this Wednesday, on the museum's Facebook page, in partnership with Le Figaro , Facebook France, the CLIC.France network of digital initiatives in museums and Connaissance des arts magazine .

Émilie Girard, scientific and collections director, and Vanessa Hen, architect responsible for the buildings and operations department, will play the guides. The first will notably mention the collection that it centralized until May 31 of objects linked to the extraordinary period that we have just lived and which is still not completely completed.

Entitled "Living in time of confinement", the aim of the operation is to maintain memory. When the masks, protective equipment, exit certificates and other stickers inviting to “social distancing” together (more than 300!) Will have the value of historical vestiges.

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An exhibition on their subject is not yet scheduled, but the objects will be visible at the Mucem conservation and resource center, on request. Or accessible online, on the in-house database. In doing so, Émilie Girard continues the tradition of the late Parisian museum of Popular Arts and Traditions (ATP) from which the Mucem inherited the collections; the ATPs themselves had their ancestor in the "Salle de France" of the former Trocadero Ethnography Museum where the most diverse objects already told of domestic life, costumes and customs of regions and regions.

More generally, the two managers propose to explain the architecture, the purpose of these 16,500 m² of floor space on several levels, and to give an overview of the immense riches of a collection at the crossroads of anthropology, archeology, history, art history and contemporary art.

On the other hand, you will have to wait to discover the “Pharaohs superstars” exhibition. This event which attempts to describe the immense posterity through the ages of the mythical emperors of the banks of the Nile should have started on April 28th. It had to be postponed to June 2022.

The “Model clothes” exhibition will open at the end of June at Fort Saint-Jean as well as a new alphabet book dedicated to flora. We will see these presentations still under construction, when the camera towards this 12th century gem, connected to the Mucem by a 130 m long footbridge spanning a dock.

As for the main building, we will discover a surprise on its large plateau on the second floor: the resumption of the contemporary installation co-produced with the Fine Arts museums of Nantes and Rennes, Cneai and Cnap in 2018, entitled Mon nom est person of Alexandre Perigot. It is, through more than seven hundred paintings, drawings, photographs, musical scores or anonymous pieces of design and a film, a research carried out around anonymity and fame in art. In the same place, the exhibition “The sound Orient” will see the light of day in a month and a half.

Last clarification, the Mucem also announces a "light" summer outdoor program in Fort Saint-Jean, from August 12 to 30 at 8:15 p.m., Wednesdays, Fridays, Sundays, with reservation required. This will be carried out in partnership with the canceled local festivals: Marseille Jazz of the five continents and Oh les beaux jours! (literature). A cinema program will also be offered with Tilt-cinémas du Sud and Afl.

Wednesday, June 2 from 6 p.m. on the museum's Facebook page (www.facebook.com/lemuscem) as well as on its Instagram account.

Source: lefigaro

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