The collection of the Music Museum, in the heart of the Cité de la Musique, Porte d'Aubervilliers in Paris, will be presented in a new light in May 2025 to give their full place to non-European instruments and world music, announced the Philharmonie on Tuesday.
From May 17, 2025, the public will be able to discover, at the museum which adjoins the concert halls in eastern Paris, a
“transformed”
tour of the permanent collections.
“From the Chinese mouth organ to the European accordion”, “from the history of the banjo connecting Africa and the Americas to the global destiny of the violin”,
the layout, never seen again since the opening in 1997, aims now to
“promote the reconnection of musical heritages across the world and explore the dialogues that they have historically maintained”,
according to the management of the Cité de la Musique.
The institution, led since 2021 by Olivier Mantei, will also present
Disco, I'm coming out,
intended to highlight the
“cultural revolution that shook dancefloors around the world”.
Another exhibition will reveal the making of a monument-work, the
Bolero,
on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Maurice Ravel.
Like every year, the most prestigious orchestras and soloists will jostle in the Great Pierre Boulez Hall of the Philharmonie, inaugurated in 2015 and which has become a benchmark in terms of acoustics.
The centenary of the birth of the composer Pierre Boulez will notably be the occasion for concerts and conferences.
Three festivals are also scheduled, including Days Off (with Air, in particular) and Jazz à La Villette, while Armenia, the Caribbean and Mali (with singer Fatoumata Diawara) will be in the spotlight during dedicated days.
Dance will be present with the show
Rituel
, which will bring together the Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen and the choreographer Benjamin Millepied, but also with productions by choreographers Robyn Orlin and Peter Sellars.
The films
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
by Jacques Demy or
The Great Dictator
by Chaplin are on the program of the film concerts.
In 2023, the Philharmonie had an occupancy rate of 89%, a level which is close to that before the Covid pandemic (92% in 2019).