Guest Post · Inspire · Provencal History & Traditions Discover Historical Marseille – What Lies Beneath Ground? April 26, 2017The tourists sitting in the sun outside cafés in the Place aux Huiles and the Cours Estienne d’Orves probably don’t realise that they are perched above an ancient system of canals that dates back at least to Roman times. I am indebted to the website ‘Made in Marseille’ for the super photos from the Marseille …Continue Reading
Explore · Guest Post FUTURS expo at Marseille’s Vieille Charité June 16, 2015Are artists visionaries? How did they see the future 100 years ago? How do they see the future today? These are the questions posed by FUTURS, the new expo at Marseille’s Vieille Charité, which opened on Friday. There are a hundred works grouped chronologically by Léger, Ernst, Matisse. …Continue Reading
Artists Inspired by Provence · Guest Post · Inspire From the Archive Collections at MuCEM and Avignon Musées November 1, 2018Most 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 around one million items. Over …Continue Reading
Inspire New in Marseille an Underwater Museum? January 5, 2017Whatever next? Plans are in place for a new tourist attraction in Marseille…an underwater museum. Standing in long boring queues to see artworks will be a thing of the past here – visitors just need diving gear to take the plunge 8m down into the Anse des Catalans.…Continue Reading
