Works, extensions, openings and reopenings of museums, re-hangings
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Gadagne: a visit to a Lyon museum with no collections on display (4)
The fourth part of the permanent tour of the Musée Gadagne has just opened, and for us and many others it was an opportunity to discover the entire new layout. And right from the first room, a…
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Gadagne: a visit to a Lyon museum with no collections on display (3)
One might have thought we’d hit rock bottom with the first two sections of the permanent tour of the Musée Gadagne, which no longer feels like a museum at all. But paradoxically, the higher you go,…
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Gadagne: a visit to a Lyon museum with no collections on display (2)
After the first level, here is the second part of the Musée Gadagne tour, one floor higher. This one is entitled: "Dipping its feet in the water". Remember that this is a museum, not an amusement…
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News from the Château de Compiègne (2): the reopening of the Musée de l’Impératrice
The Musée de l’Impératrice in Compiègne, which has been closed for many years, reopened its doors in 2022 and its museography has been redesigned. We didn’t know about it before it closed, but the…
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Gadagne: a visit to a Lyon museum with no collections on display (1)
The Hôtel Gadagne, Lyon’s history museum, has been the talk of the town since it was completely redeveloped. The controversy centres on the way in which part of the exhibition revisits the city’s…
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Apollon finally returns to Versailles
In many respects, some of the jewels in the national collections are like survivors, having outlived both natural disasters and the upheavals of history, not to mention the harmful consequences…
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Tate Britain’s rehang and acquisitions (1/2)
The new museum-wide presentation of works at Tate Britain clearly has a thoughtful subtext in which colonial issues, gender and everything else that constitutes the alpha and omega of today’s…
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The Goya Museum reopens after a three-year construction period
The work on the Goya Museum began in 2020 just after the first containment and took only three years. Three years is a remarkable timeframe for restoring a building and completely redoing a…
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Renovation of the Musée Lambinet in Versailles
Crushed by the château, which attracts the vast majority of tourists visiting Versailles, the Musée Lambinet, a municipal museum, is having trouble making itself known, and that is a great pity,…
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Exhibition, restoration, lay out, acquisition... News from the Girodet Museum
After the dramatic floods of 2016, the Musée Girodet had reopened, but the collections were still being restored, so not everything could be displayed yet. The situation continues to improve and…
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