Opened there will be seven years on June 7th, while Marseille was the captain of the european of the culture, Mucem closing our tour de France cultural places confined.

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This impressive centre dedicated to the civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean will reopen on Monday 29 June. The entry in the spaces that are usually paid from this big cube of lace in concrete signed Rudy Ricciotti and posed at the entrance to the Vieux-Port will then be free. And this up to the 21 July inclusive. This action for the purpose of adjusting a circuit of visit redesigned, with a tonnage much less than before the health crisis.

But in the meantime, therefore, to put us in appetite, without the wearing of masks compulsory measures barriers, a virtual tour will be accessible freely on your computer screen or your smartphone from 18 hours this Wednesday, on the page Facebook of the museum, in partnership with Le Figaro, Facebook France, the network CLICK.France’s digital initiatives, in museums and in the magazine connaissance des arts.

Émilie Girard, director, science and collections, and Vanessa Hen, the architect in charge of the department of buildings and operation, will be the guides. The first will discuss in particular the collection that it has centralized up to may 31 last of things related to the extraordinary period that we have just experienced and which is still not completely finished.

Titled, ” Living in the time of containment “, the operation aims to maintain the memory. When masks, protective equipment, certificates of release and other stickers inviting to the “social distancing” come together (over 300 !) will have the status of historical relics.

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exposure to their subject is not yet programmed, but the objects will be visible at the centre of conservation and of resource of the Mucem, on request. Or available online, on the database home. By doing this Émilie Girard continues the tradition of the deceased parisian museum of Arts and Traditions Populaires (ATP), which the Museum inherited collections ; the ATP who have themselves had for ancestor the “en France” to the former Museum of ethnography of the Trocadéro where objects the most various told already domestic life, costumes and customs of the regions and terroirs.

More generally, the two leaders propose to explain the architecture, the vocation of these 16500 m2 of floor area on multiple levels, and give an overview of the immense wealth of the fund at the crossroads of anthropology, archaeology, history, art history and contemporary art.

It will take some time in contrast to discover the exhibition “the Pharaohs “superstars”. This event, which aims to describe the immense posterity through the ages of the mythical emperors of the banks of the Nile would have had to start on the 28th of April last. It had to be postponed to June 2022.

The exhibition “Clothes models” open it, well the end of June at fort Saint-Jean and a new primer on the flora. You can watch these presentations still under construction, when the camera to this jewel of the Twelfth century, linked to the Mucem by a gateway 130 m long, spanning a dock.

As for the main building, we will discover his great plateau of the second floor a surprise : the recovery of the contemporary installation co-produced with the museum of Fine arts of Nantes and Rennes, the Cneai and the Cnap in 2018, entitled My name is nobody by Alexandre Perigot. It is, through more than seven hundred paintings, drawings, photographs, sheet music, or design pieces of anonymous and a film, a research conducted around the anonymity and the celebrity in the item in The same place, the exhibition “East sound” will see the light of day in a month and a half.

Last detail, the Mucem is also announcing a programming “summer light” in the open air, in the fort Saint-Jean, from 12 to 30 August at 20: 15, Wednesdays, Fridays, Sundays, with reservations required. This will be carried out in partnership with the local festivals cancelled : Marseille Jazz des cinq continents and Oh the beautiful days ! (literature). Programming of cinema will also be offered with Tilt-cinemas of the South and Afl.

Wednesday, 2 June from 18 hours on the page Facebook of the museum (the www.facebook.com/lemuscem) as well as on his account Instagram.

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“Marseille was the captain of the european culture”
Captain ? a
Strange ! Like what we can do twice the humour in the same sentence !!

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