2024-01-09 21:56:28
The Center Pompidou in Paris offers a discovery of its collections thanks to a traveling museum, the MuMo. Embarked in a truck, he travels through the French countryside to meet its inhabitants. The objective: to promote access to culture in the most remote regions.
A real museum on wheels was set up a few days ago in the parking lot of a school in Verdun, in the north-east of France. “Once you arrive at your destination, the two drawers unfold and transform into an exhibition space, offering 45 square meters of works of contemporary art and modern art,” explains Ingrid Brochard, founder of the MuMo mobile museum, Tuesday in the 7:30 p.m.
This is how works from the prestigious Center Pompidou in Paris go to meet the inhabitants of the most remote villages and neighborhoods known to be difficult.
Schoolchildren as target audience
The target audience for this initiative is primarily schoolchildren, who are not accustomed to cultural outings.
“Most children who have never been to a museum are delighted, find it quite new. It is also a way for them to see originals that come out of the reserves of Paris,” underlines Angèle Santrot, cultural mediator.
Promote access to culture
The founder of the mobile museum herself spent her childhood in a rural area, without access to culture. As a child, she impatiently awaited the bookmobiles that crisscrossed the countryside.
“I said to myself, why not do the same thing with works of art, create this encounter by coming to the other, since there, it is not the children who move towards the museum, but the museum which moves to them”, she says in the 7:30 p.m. of the RTS.
Launched in 2022, the Center Pompidou mobile museum offers two exhibitions each year to some 20,000 visitors.
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