This year, a youthful breeze will blow over the Night of Museums. The municipal museums and galleries in Nice are going all out to offer the general public a free and original view of their exhibitions.
Visit the exhibitions with music, explore relics by touch, recreate past gestures, and watch dancers among masterpieces…
The proposed programs will undoubtedly spark inspiration…
ARCHAEOLOGY MUSEUM / TERRA AMATA SITE
Recreate the gestures of the past. Visitors will be able to experiment with the techniques of our ancestors. Start a fire, carve stone, build a hut…
6 PM to 9 PM: Workshop visits for discovering the collections from a different perspective.
6 PM to 11 PM: Experimental archaeology workshops revolving around the collections.
TERRA AMATA / CIMIEZ SITE
Visitors, both visually impaired and non-impaired, will be invited to share a sensory discovery of the collections: the museum will be plunged into darkness.
Initially timid, the public will come alive, interact, and explore the various exhibition galleries to rediscover relics of the past.
9 PM, 10 PM: Sensory discovery of the Cimiez museum.
Artist Laura Hurt will perform a sensory and artistic discovery of different pieces presented in the exhibition galleries for both disabled and non-disabled people.
6 PM to 11 PM: “Hartiste” and “handicap”: intervention by artist Laura Hurt.
FINE ARTS MUSEUM
8 PM: Masterpieces revealed.
Mediation around some masterpieces of the Fine Arts Museum collection.
9 PM: Performance by Jean Mas on the “shadow” of Van Gogh and Jules Chéret.
Taking advantage of a correspondence from Vincent to Théo where the painter expressed his wish to exhibit with Jules Chéret, Jean Mas will enter the universe of his creativity where the cast shadow acts as a “revelator”.
MAMAC
At 8 PM, 9 PM, 10 PM: Performance “Tale of a Night,” by Julie Le Toquin.
For over a year, Julie Le Toquin, a young artist orphaned by her parents, the sole guardian of her memory and memories, has been collecting confidences from friends, strangers, artists, and visitors she meets in schools and art centers, museums… in Brittany, France, and elsewhere in Europe. Transformed into a living archive, Julie Le Toquin recounts these fragments of confidences without revealing the secret.
8 PM to 11 PM: Meeting with percussion and contemporary dance classes from the Conservatoire National à Rayonnement Régional.
From the beginning, the student dancers and percussionists will perform a choreographic creation by Bertrand Papillon, to Maurice Ohana’s composition “Les Études chorégraphiques,” directed by Christophe Perez. Then, the percussion classes will offer an exploration of different instrumental aesthetics associated with a musical blend that is ethnic, classical, and contemporary.
Each musical offering will resonate with the artworks and themes of the museum’s various rooms. To close the evening: Lighting up Yves Klein’s Wall of Fire: the percussion classes will present a unique creation by Régis Famelart on the museum terraces in dialogue with Yves Klein’s Wall of Fire.
NAÏVE ART MUSEUM
6 PM: Musical and poetic journey among the museum’s artworks staged by Mr. Gorelli.
7 PM: Installation of the ephemeral workshop by Frédéric Lanovsky and Jonathon Brown in preparation for the exhibition “La Promenade, tout simplement” which will be presented from June 12, as part of Nice’s summer museum program, “Nice 2015. PromenadeS des Anglais” (June 12 – October 4).
MATISSE MUSEUM
6 PM to 9:30 PM: Thematic guided tours around ten emblematic works in the collection.
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM
6:30 PM, 8 PM, 9:30 PM: Guided tours meeting the naturalist Jean-Baptiste Barla. Discovery of rare and unknown specimens.
MASSÉNA MUSEUM
Presentation of the 2014/2015 acquisitions, particularly two important works that have recently joined the permanent collection of the Masséna Museum:
A gold and enamel bracelet that was given by Napoleon III and Empress Eugenie to Clorine, daughter of François Malausséna, former mayor of Nice, on October 12, 1860, during the imperial couple’s visit to Nice following its annexation to France. (Donated by H.S.H. Albert II Prince of Monaco, December 2014) A canvas signed by artist Sophie Fantet, depicting Marshal André Masséna in Empire attire, wearing the insignia of the Legion of Honor, part of the lots from the Napoleonic collection auctioned by the Prince’s Palace in 2014. (Acquired, Napoleonic Collections of the Prince’s Palace of Monaco, December 2014)
LASCARIS PALACE
8 PM to 10 PM:
In a specially designed setup through the museum’s floors, rooms, staircase, courtyard, chambers, antechambers, salons, and even windows:
-Theater with the “Le Navire” Company: Readings of excerpts from plays of the first half of the 17th-century theater: Three actresses, three actors, and two musicians will respond throughout the freely proposed course to spectators.
Repertoire: “La Mariane de Tristan L’Hermite” (Tragedy, 1637), “Pyrame et Thisbé” by Théophile de Viau (Tragedy, 1621), “Les Visionnaires” by Desmarets de St Sorlin (Comedy, 1636), “Jodelet ou le Maître” valet by Scarron (Comedy, 1644).
THEATER OF PHOTOGRAPHY AND IMAGE
7 PM, 8 PM: Mediation around the exhibition “Patrick Swirc, Photographic Journeys,” through the various themes of his work: portrait, fashion, travel diaries… (duration 45 minutes)
