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The Lugdunum museum and the Louvre come together to make Roman Lyon shine

2021-06-12T16:20:51.652Z


ARCHEOLOGY - Scientific cooperation as well as a more regular exchange of works should make it possible to revive the activity of the discreet archaeological museum.


Lutèce flies to the aid of Lugdunum.

The metropolis of Lyon signed a partnership with the Louvre on Friday intended to enrich the collections of the Lugdunum archaeological museum, dedicated to the city's Roman past, and to develop scientific exchanges between the two establishments.

This agreement will allow the Lyon museum, located on the Fourvière hill opposite the ancient theaters of the ancient capital of the Gauls,

"to benefit from privileged loans"

for its temporary exhibitions, explains its director, Claire Iselin.

Read also: At the Lugdunum Museum, Antiquity leads the way

From October, around twenty pieces will arrive for the exhibition devoted to the theme of power, including two monumental statues of the Roman Emperor Augustus and his wife Livia.

The partnership will also make it possible to enrich the permanent visit route, which is already one of the most important archaeological collections in France, by deposits of works from the Roman collections of the Louvre.

For now, the Lugdunum museum is already exhibiting two works from the Paris museum: a bust of Emperor Caracalla - born in Lyon - as well as a statue of Diana, the Roman goddess of the hunt.

"This museum which needs a second wind"

The Louvre National Museum, which has forged partnerships with the ancient museums of Arles and Nîmes, has already delivered nearly 35,000 works on deposit throughout France, a number close to what it exhibits on average in its Parisian galleries, underlined its outgoing CEO, Jean-Luc Martinez. The convention he signed on Friday with Bruno Bernard, president of the metropolis of Lyon, and Cédric Van Styvendael, vice-president in charge of Culture, finally aims to carry out joint scientific projects.

Inaugurated in 1975, the Lugdunum museum is a concrete building buried in the Fourvière hill to respect the surrounding archaeological site. Its architecture would be as well known abroad as that of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, even if its museography is nevertheless aging, said Friday Jean-Luc Martinez, who will give way to the head of the Louvre to Laurence des Cars , in September.

"We hope to attract more people to this museum which needs a second wind"

, said Bruno Bernard, relying on the expertise of the Louvre, the most visited on the planet. A major rehabilitation project will soon be launched on a first level of the Lyon museum, which will accommodate a Gallo-Roman flat-bottomed barge from the 2nd century, discovered in 2004 during excavations on the banks of the Saône, a central piece of a consecrated scenography. to river trade in Roman Gaul.

Source: lefigaro

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