Musée des civilisations de l’Europe & de la Méditerranée THE NEXT PORT OF CALL Musée des civilisations de l’PROGRAMMEEurope & de la Méditerranée Musée des civilisations de l’Europe & de la Méditerranée The Mediterranean finally has its museum: the muCEM In June 2013 the fIrst museum dedIcated to the cIvIlIsatIons of europe and the medIterranean wIll open In marseIlle. For the first time, the State is promoting the creation of a national museum outside the capital. In rehabilitating the historic site of Fort Saint-Jean, entrusting to Rudy Ricciotti the construction of a new building on the J4 pier facing the sea and providing a Centre for Conservation and Resources designed by Corinne Vezzoni in the Belle de Mai district, the Ministry of Culture has given birth to one of the most beautiful museum complexes in France. Marseille is the European Capital of Culture throughout the year 2013. Cultural programming of exceptional depth and appeal is already generating exceptional visitor turnout. The creation of the MuCEM is a defining element of this capital year, and well beyond 2013, the MuCEM will contribute to showcasing Marseille and its region. Marseille welcomes a museum designed in its own image: cleaved to the north shore of the Mediterranean, gazing out over the open sea, open to the winds of ideas. More Partner Institutions: than a museum, a cultural city, drawing on all the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, mobilizing the artistic expressions of both shores of the Mediterranean. A new way of regarding the Mediterranean as a space for openness and sharing, for envisioning a common history and the dialogue of civilisations, for clarifying the issues, giving depth of field to contemporary phenomena, and shaping a new public space. Bruno Suzzarelli Director of the MuCEM 01 the mucem, Is… The J4 2 4700 m Three Between city and sea on the former J4 pier, of exhibition spaces, this mineral cube of 15,000 m², enclosed in a fine latticework of concrete, is the work of dedicated areas for children, an auditorium, sitEs, architect Rudy Ricciotti. two bookstores-boutiques, a brasserie, a restaurant, a café, a panoramic terrace, a historic itinerary, the garden of migrations, Three and a picnic area. Access to all of the above Fort Saint-Jean is free and unrestricted during museum sEttings At the entrance to the port of Marseille and hours.. connected to the J4 and the Panier district by two footbridges, fort saint-Jean opens 2 footbridges its doors at last. After being closed to the Fort Saint-Jean, aerial view - Agence APS © Golem Images public for centuries, the fort is now an open of 135m and 70m in length, access promenade, where one can stroll 309 poles in Ultra high Performance Concrete through the garden of migrations, immersed (UhPC) in a cube of 72m per side, 1500 m² of in memories of the site or explore the ThE MuCEM collections of the MuCEM. latticework in UhPC, an ancient fort, rehabilitated opEns its doors and open to the public for the first time… 1 million The CCR works, objects and documents In the Belle de Mai, the centre for IN JUNE 2013 conservation and resources designed by A collection consisting of nearly one million architect Corinne Vezzoni houses all of the Multiple surprising propositions works, objects and documents, essentially reserve collections of the museum as well over a surface area of m2 inherited from the Musée National des Arts as its documentary collections, library and et Traditions Populaires and enriched by an scientific archives. 40 000 Detail of the J4 footbridge © Lisa Ricciotti innovative acquisition policy. 20 cultural events Detail of the concrete pillars of the facade © Lisa Ricciotti The MuCEM is a true museum of the 21st The MuCEM invites travel and discovery, From the Vieux-Port to the esplanade of weekly . An original work by artist Antoni Muntadas that . At the J4, a space devoted to the discovery and century : a cultural city where plural through its exhibitions and rich cultural pro- the J4, one can wander freely and without greets visitors in the J4 lobby;. development of the audiovisual archives of the gramming: performances, concerts, ideolo- an itinerary, passing through the garden of 20 cultural events weekly (concerts, conferences Mediterranean: the Médinathèque. A selection . The Mediterranean Institute for heritage perspectives on the mediterranean gical debates, film screenings...are offered migrations of Fort Saint-Jean, the rooftop and debates, performances, films, guided tours…) from the Institut National de l’Audiovisuel for the Professions, in the heart of Fort Saint-Jean, intersect and are exchanged. in the auditorium or on the squares of Fort terrace of the J4 and a suspended footbridge in the J4 auditorium, exhibition areas and on the project Sharing our Mediterranean Audiovisual dedicated to training professionals focused on Saint-Jean. overlooking the sea… squares of Fort Saint-Jean in summer. heritage (Med-Mem). the challenges and needs of Mediterranean The MuCEM is a living space open to all, a place heritage. for exchange and a venue for architectural and a new urban promenade is taking shape Diverse offers historical discoveries. at the muCEM. tailored for individual or group visits, mediation in several languages, and an extensive range of services (shopping, restaurants…) 02 03 PROJECT MUCEM T empo r A From J u n e 2013 temporary temporary From J u n e 2013 r y Location: J4 Location: J4 to January 2014 to January 2014 E exhibition exhibition x H i B i T i on bLACK blUE. bazaar genDer, Coproduction: MuCEM The AND AT the of with the support of Louis Vuitton, MP2013 with the support of EDF, rMN Grand Palais. A meDiterranean Dream... FemiNine / MascuLine Coproduction : MuCEM, “The Black and Blue. A Mediterranean 1 iN the meDiterranean MP2013, rMN Grand Palais. The bearers of dreams Dream...”explores the different facets of the From September 5 to December 19, 2013 Mediterranean dream over time, from the Against the backdrop of upheaval in the multiple ways of being a man or a woman each thursday night at 18:30 18th century with Bonaparte’s expedition to gender order, this exhibition offers a status in modern Mediterranean societies: how The week of gender Egypt to the 21st century. A contemporary a conference in images followed report on the issue of "gender". individuals express sexuality, meet, become From november 2 to 10, 2013 section presents visions of the future by An itinerary connecting objects of daily life, a couple or family, and more generally, by the projection of a film. in November, the MuCEM and Marseille artists today. works of contemporary art (Niki de Saint communicate their differences. Provence 2013 will offer a series of Phalle, Louise Bourgeois, Pierre et Gilles) The Mediterranean dream has a face, performances, installations, debates and An itinerary divided between shadow and and numerous excerpts from fiction and 2 or rather faces…Of the figures who, encounters with artists mobilised around light, between barbarity and civilisation, documentary films inviting inquiry into the throughout history, have thought, imagined the theme of gender, in the auditorium and between the Black and Blue. An invitation to or acted to define their Mediterranean world. in different spaces of the MuCEM. Bonaparte in Egypt, the Saint-Simonians, travel through a crossing of the imagination. Coproduction: MuCEM, MP2013 Lord Byron, Cavafy or Nietzsche…But also 2 with the support of Crédit Coopératif.. those who were bearers of another dream The exhibition combines paintings (Goya, like Al-Tahtawi or Taha Hussein in Egypt, Miró…), photographs, sculptures and Abed el-Kader in Algeria… original documents-manuscripts and rare QuesTions of gender, books, magazines, posters and newspapers, feminine / masculine: archival images, documentaries and works of a weekly appoinTmenT fiction-in an itinerary woven from narratives drawing us into the diverse representations 3 beginning in September 2013 of the Mediterranean, from one shore to the every WeDnesday at 18:30 other. Thematic conferences followed by documentary screenings alternating with on i 1. Joan Miró, Blue II, March 4, 1961 Gift from the Menil film series, cartes blanches with three T i Foundation in memory of Jean de Menil (1984) Paris, guests (Danielle Hibon, Ersi Sotiropoulou B National Museum of Modern Art - Centre Georges Pompidou i Philippe Migeat / Centre Pompidou, and Tahar Chikaou). H MNAM-CCI / Dist. RMN-GP x These cartes blanches, consisting of © Successió Miró / Adagp, Paris, 2012 E 1. Gay Pride, Marseille 2011 © MuCEM, Nicolas Ross two projections for each soirée, will be 2. Philippe Castetbon, photographic series Homosexuality 2. Francisco de Goya, Los Caprichos series engraved Algeria, 2010 accompanied by cinema personalities (film r y between 1797 and 1799, plate n°43, The Sleep of Reason A makers, critics or actors). Produces Monsters © Musée Goya, 3. Sandra Dukic, Enfante!, Textile painting, Bosnia-Herzegovina 2006 r © MuCEM, Christophe Fouin Musée d’Art Hispanique, Castres, P. Bru. 1 06 07 empo T PerManEnt Location: J4 exhibition ThE gallErY OF 1 thE MEditErranEan On the ground floor of the J4, the gallery Jacques Monory, Barthélémy Toguo…). the chIldren’s odYSSEY of the Mediterranean offers a unique This original selection highlights certain The MuCEM has a permanent perspective on the history of the civilisations reception area devoted to children. of the Mediterranean Basin. major issues of the contemporary world: Located on the ground floor of the J4, it the environment, human rights, relations offers an interactive and playful itinerary Invention and expansion of agriculture, with the Other. suitable for children ages 7 to 12 years. monotheism, citizenship, travel and major This space is the departure of a digital discoveries makeup the themes of a Within the gallery, a tactile and sensory itinerary within the gallery of the transversal and multidisciplinary itinerary tour composed of eleven key works Mediterranean: Ulysses, in the discovery of the Mediterranean world.