The operation, initiated by the Ministry of Culture and Communication to diversify the activities of establishments and attract a variety of visitors, allows for the cultural influence of museums in France and Europe under the patronage of UNESCO.
For this 7th edition, the City of Nice has decided to open from 6:00 PM to 11:00 PM: the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MAMAC), the Matisse Museum, the Palais Lascaris, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Masséna Museum, the Nice Cemenelum Archaeological Museum, the Museum of Human Paleontology of Terra Amata, the Natural History Museum, the Theatre of Photography and Image, and the Galerie de la Marine and Galerie des Ponchettes.
This Saturday, May 14, 2011, starting at 6 PM, an appointment is made at the Museum of Human Paleontology of Terra Amata to discover artist Anny Pelouze’s interpretation of prehistoric female representations in the ‘Elle’ exhibition.
The night continues with a set of animations, concerts, and sound presentations (MAMAC, Palais Lascaris, Museum of Fine Arts, and Galerie de la Marine), screenings (Matisse Museum), shows (Masséna and Archaeology Museums), and guided tours (Matisse Museum, Terra Amata, Natural History Museum, and Theatre of Photography and Image), allowing for meaningful moments within each participating location.
At MAMAC:
TEMPORARY EXHIBITION
1st floor rooms
Imaginary Legends
By Vincent Chancey and Serge Pesce, Jazzmen
6:30 PM, 8:30 PM, and 10:30 PM.
With the participation of the National Conservatory of Regional Influence:
In the contemporary gallery, at the museum entrance, performance by harp student Daphné Milio.
8:00 PM and 10:00 PM.
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
2nd floor Electroacoustic and flute
Electroacoustic sound system by Michel Pascal, professor at the Conservatory.
Performance by Simay Aydin at the flute, student of the Conservatory.
7:00 PM and 9:00 PM.
3rd floor
Contemporary dance (6 minutes)
Choreography by Bertrand Papillon, professor at the Conservatory
7:30 PM and 8:30 PM.
On the terraces
Saxophone ensemble from the CNRR (18 participants)
Conducted by François Leclaircie, professor at the Conservatory
9:15 PM
Ignition of the fire wall inspired by The Fire Wall created in Krefeld in 1961 by Yves Klein.
9:30 PM.
At the Matisse Museum
Auditorium, level -2.
Exclusive screening of the film Henri Matisse by François Campaux, 1946 (50 minutes)
Continuous screening from 6:00 PM to 10:00 PM.
The Matisse Museum has just acquired the rights to screen this film and is programming it for the first time on the occasion of the Museum Night. This rare archival source is the only film in which Matisse can be seen working and heard talking about his art.
Museum
Guided tour of the collection (60 minutes) at 8:00 PM.
At the Palais Lascaris
2nd floor rooms
The Palais Lascaris will open to the public two new rooms dedicated to a permanent exhibition of ancient musical instruments from the legacy of the Nice collector Antoine Gautier (1825-1904).
6:00 PM to 11:00 PM.
Grand Salon
Recital to accompany the opening of this new exhibition
Anne-Sophie Llorens will play a key instrument from the Gautier legacy, the guitar by Pierre Pacherel (Nice, 1834), and that of Antonio de Torres (Almeria, 1884).
6:00 PM, 8:00 PM, and 9:30 PM.
At the Museum of Fine Arts
Patio
Schubertiade in the patio
Starting at 8:00 PM, a program dedicated to Schubert’s finest chamber music pieces will be serenaded.
8:00 PM.
Museum
Raffle
On the occasion of the publication of the complete catalogue of Gustav Adolf Mossa’s work, 5 copies will be awarded by raffle.
At the Masséna Museum
Various exhibition rooms of the museum
The Guardians
By the actors of L’Attraction compagnie.
Their role is essential, ensuring both the security of spaces and artworks and public information. And while their function usually leads them to compose a mask, to play a role, they remain individuals with dreams and secrets hitherto unadmitted… This show revolves around this secret side of their personality, usually hidden from visitors, revealing each guardian as an original character, a creator in the shadows, a museum in themselves, a traveling exhibition; essentially, a work of art on display.
The actors of L’Attraction compagnie will portray the guardians and will intervene in different exhibition rooms of the museum to offer impromptu encounters around this show infused with poetry, humor, and absurdity.
7:30 PM to 11:00 PM.
At the Nice-Cemenelum Archaeological Museum
AROUND THE FIRE WITH LEGIONARY VELOX
Fernand Benoit Garden – archaeological site
Demonstration of different fire-lighting techniques
Velox, a Roman legionary, shows how he lit up at night in his camp before resuming the march to the battlefield the next morning.
6:30 PM to 7:00 PM.
Ignition of the fire in the Fernand Benoit Garden by Velox
7:00 PM.
The Lookout level 0
What is this equipment that made the Roman army strong?
Velox will present his military equipment, which, at nightfall, must be cleaned and inspected by his centurion.
9:30 PM to 10:30 PM.
Multipurpose room level -1
The Mystery of the Alyscamps,… when stone tombs start talking, they tell strange, tasty, and chilling stories…
Musical show by the Company « L’arbre qui chante »
8:30 PM to 9:30 PM and 10:00 PM to 11:00 PM.
Museum (plunged in darkness)
Flashlight-guided discovery of the collections
Limited seating – Flashlights available at the reception,
ideally bring your own flashlight.
9:00 PM to 11:00 PM.
At the Terra Amata Museum
Inauguration of the exhibition ‘Elle’
May 15 – June 17, 2011
This exhibition offers artist Anny Pelouze’s perspective on prehistoric female representations. Her symbolic work on the “trace” is a reflection on origin, notably paying tribute to the archetypal presences of prehistoric Venuses.
About fifteen acrylic paintings, on linen and paper, with formats between 1.50m and 2.20m, will be displayed at Terra-Amata.
6:00 PM.
Guided tour of the permanent collection
9:00 PM to 11:00 PM.
At the Natural History Museum
Guided tours
Meteorite, rocks, and minerals
History of the landscapes of the Alpes-Maritimes, with a presentation of the main rocks structuring them: volcanic rocks, granites, gneiss, limestones, pelites, puddingstones, gypsum… A geo-diversity that strikes the eye: each stone tells the tumultuous story but also explains the richness of the plant landscapes and the resulting great biodiversity.
6:00 PM, 7:00 PM, 8:00 PM, 9:00 PM, and 10:00 PM.
At the Theatre of Photography and Image Charles Nègre
Exhibition, August Sander: portraits, landscapes, architecture Until May 22, 2011
Mediation around the exhibition by Sonia Duchatel
7:00 PM and 8:00 PM.
At the Galerie de la Marine
Exhibition, Beau Delay, carte blanche to Arnaud Maguet
February 12 to June 5, 2011
A proposal by Arnaud Maguet with Jérôme Fino, Samson Guyomard, Karine Meyffret, and Myriam Tirler.
By inviting Arnaud Maguet to propose a project in the form of carte blanche, the Galerie de la Marine presents a collective exhibition of four artists: Jérôme Fino, installations (Marseille), Myriam Tirler, photographs, (Paris), Samson Guyomard, installations (Lausanne), and Karine Meyffret, sculptures, ceramics (Coaraze).
Sound Orbiter, Spatialized concert by Michel Redolfi.
Evening from 6 PM to 11 PM
The Galerie de la Marine invites the composer to create a musical installation that, through innovative acoustic devices, spatializes sound in virtual trajectories around the audience and animates the acoustic textures of certain pieces of the Arnaud Maguet exhibition, “Beau Delay.”
To respond to the gallery’s invitation, Michel Redolfi offers to provide a unique dynamic to the current exhibition, offering a sensory approach to the visiting space, a form of sonic lighting of the pieces.
Sound Orbiter is an unprecedented mix of his new opus, Music on Mars, scheduled for release at Radio France in September.
Michel Redolfi is a laureate of the Villa Medici outside the walls and the Ars Electronica International Prize.
At the Galerie des Ponchettes
Exhibition Bernard Pagès, L’Arête ouverte, 1984
MAMAC Collection
Until May 22, 2011
Evening from 6 PM to 11 PM
Bernard Pagès – L’Arête ouverte, 1984 – Round iron and oxidized or painted barrels, raw or planed wood, ceramic edge 300 x 1500 x 600 cm – MAMAC Collection, Nice
At the International Museum of Naïve Art Anatole Jakovsky
Guided tour
Unique Journey: Modernity among naive painters.
As Anatole Jakovsky might have said: “It all began the day after the French Revolution…”
7:00 PM
