The world of Clovis, an exhibition in which you are the hero at the National Archaeology Museum
Do you like escape games or role playing games? Then you should love the new exhibition at the National Archaeology Museum in Saint-Germain-en-Laye (only 20 minutes by RER from Paris)! In “The World of Clovis”, you are indeed an actor of the exhibition since your visit will depend on you. Built on the model of […]
Black Indians at the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac museum: the traditions of the New Orleans carnival
The Black Indians of New Orleans exhibition has just opened at the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum. Little known in France, the African-American custom of Mardi Gras Carnival in New Orleans is an exciting mix of traditions, beliefs and communities. A festivity rich in syncretism that is an opportunity to trace the history of African-Americans on […]
Facing the Sun, the dazzling exhibition at the Marmottan Monet museum
Throughout the ages, the sun has never ceased to inspire artists. This fascinating star by its brilliance, capable of being reborn every day, has been the central point of many paintings. This is notably the case in “Impression, soleil levant” (“Impression, Sunrise”), the mythical painting by Claude Monet in 1872, which gave its name to […]
Who was Iannis Xenakis? An innovative artist to (re)discover at the Philharmonie de Paris
“I was born twenty-five centuries too late” confided Iannis Xenakis. Yet this lover of Greek antiquity was resolutely modern, to the point of reinventing music and creating new architectural forms. Architect, engineer, composer, mathematician… Xenakis was all these things at once, which makes him a particularly atypical artist. On the occasion of the centenary of […]
The circus in the spotlight in Rouen’s museums: a tour of the exhibitions to discover
The Borg couple’s story is captivating and their passion contagious. This is quite something for these two doctors who have devoted their lives to the circus. Because there are passions so devouring that they take over your whole life. Did Gérard Borg suspect, when he was a child, that the circus would take him to […]
Paris-Athens at the Louvre: an exhibition to understand the birth of modern Greece
The year 2021 marks a double bicentennial: the beginning of the Greek War of Independence against the Ottoman Empire and the entry of the Venus de Milo into the national collections. On this occasion, the Musée du Louvre invites us on a journey between Paris and Athens with an exhibition that explores the cultural, historical, […]