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MuCEM and Fort Saint-Jean for History Buffs in Marseille

November 15, 2018

You may be interested in the new space that opened in Fort Saint-Jean in July. It’s called the Galerie des Officiers, the arcaded section you can see in the photo. Each of 5 small rooms has a short film on an aspect of the history of Fort Saint-Jean, with it a ...

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From the Archive Collections at MuCEM and Avignon Musées

November 1, 2018

Most museums have massive amounts of ‘stuff’ filed, heaped, and mounded away in archives, basements and warehouses. The question is: what do they do with it all? It really is an issue. Marseille’s MuCEM inherited the contents of the Musée National des Arts et Traditions Populaires in Paris and now has ...

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Contemporary Artist Ai Weiwei Show at MuCEM in Marseille

July 27, 2018

Ai Weiwei and Marseille This is a highly political show—and highly personal, too. Much is about the artist’s relationship with his father (Ai Qing), whose ship from Shanghai in 1929 docked right next to where MuCEM is today. Indeed, it was France that inspired him to become a poet, a ...

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Ai Weiwei Show Starts in June at MuCEM in Marseille

April 17, 2018

Just announced, an exhibition of the work of Ai Weiwei, opening at MuCEM on June 20th in Marseille. Having seen his show at the Royal Academy in London last year, I expect it will be stimulating and baffling…but unmissable. According to MuCEM, they will be adding objects from their permanent ...

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Picasso Exhibition at MuCEM

May 9, 2016

MuCEM re-opens with its expo Picasso, Un Genie Sans Piedestal: Picasso et les Arts et Traditions Populaires’ which is well worth a visit. Presented with the support of the Musee Picasso-Paris, along with other international loans, the show has 270 works. This show, a unique collection of Picasso’s works on ...

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MUCEM – New Expo on Algeria

February 1, 2016

This really is one of MuCEM’s more esoteric offerings, which we found a little baffling. The first few rooms are devoted to how the country was mapped and some of the beautifully precise work by various draughtsmen. The commentary (English panels as well as French) explains how this work, “Made ...

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Coming Up at MUCEM

October 9, 2015

There are some interesting exhibitions are listed for the coming months – and indeed the next few years. The current show ‘Migrations Divines’ is on until November 16th. It focuses on 3 centres of civilisation around the Mediterranean – Egypt, Greece and Rome – and looks at the gods worshiped ...

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Holiday Apartment 3-Bedrooms in an Olive Grove

A delightful 3-bedroom holiday apartment at Domaine des Escavalins is an organic olive farm. Well-appointed and private, the gite has room for six (6) people.

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Search Results for: mucem

MuCEM and Fort Saint-Jean for History Buffs in Marseille

From the Archive Collections at MuCEM and Avignon Musées

Contemporary Artist Ai Weiwei Show at MuCEM in Marseille

Ai Weiwei Show Starts in June at MuCEM in Marseille

Picasso Exhibition at MuCEM

MUCEM – New Expo on Algeria

Coming Up at MUCEM

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