The Ministry of Culture announces the list of 24 exhibitions, presented in the museums of France, to which the label is attributed Exhibition of national interest» in 2023.
Created in 1999 and implemented by the regional cultural affairs directorates, the label «Exhibition of national interest» is part of the territorial policy of action of the Ministry of Culture.
It aims to highlight and support exhibitions organized in territorial museums in 2023, distinguished by the originality of their discourse, their novel thematic approach and the innovative nature of their mediation and communication actions aimed at broadening and diversifying audiences.
The 24 exhibitions selected in 2023:
From Auvergne Rhône-alp es | Valencia, Valencia Museum, Art and Archaeology The Universe without man May 13 – September 17, 2023 |
Burgundy Franche-Comté | Dijon, Museum of Fine Arts Within reach of Asia. Collectors, collectors and dealers of Asian art in France. 1750-1939 October 19, 2023 – January 22, 2024 |
Brittany | Rennes – Daoulas, Museum of Brittany and the EPCC Chemins du patrimoine en Finistère To die, what a story! June 2 – December 3, 2023, at the Daoulas Abbey 16 March – 22 September 2024, at the Musée de Bretagne, Rennes |
Centre Val-de-Loire | Chartres, Museum of Fine Arts A forgotten people. Paul Richer, Jules Dalou and the sculpture of work September 23 – December 31, 2023 In the flesh. Paul Richer between art and medicine March 16 – June 16, 2024 Orleans, Museum of Fine Arts Jean Bardin (1732-1809), the sacred fire December 3, 2022 – April 30, 2023 |
Great East | Shawls in Champagne, museum of fine arts and archaeology Circus entertainment (provisional title) July – October 2023 Epinal, image museum Full view! Optical games and illusions in popular imagery 1er July 2023 – January 7, 2024 |
Hauts-de-France | Amiens, musée de Picardie The Sum of Prehistories December 2023 – April 2024 Beauvais, musée de l'Oise Dream and light: Antiquity according to Emile-René Ménard March 29 – July 24, 2023 |
Île-de-France | Meaux, Great War Museum Nurses, silent heroines of the Great War April 8 – December 31, 2023 Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin, Seine and Marne Museum The oval world of Pierre Mac Orlan September 10 – December 10, 2023 |
Martinique | Fort-de-France, archaeology museum Canoes without borders of the Caribbean Sea June 16, 2023 – 1er january 2024 |
Normandy | Fiery, joint exhibition: Sacred journey, sacred journey: from the site of Gisacum to the museum of Évreux Gisacum site, interpretation centre, June 17 – September 17, 2023 Musée d'art, histoire et archéologie d'Évreux, October 21, 2023 – March 3, 2024 Le Havre, Rouen, Honfleur, joint exhibition: Slavery, Norman memories Le Havre, Dubocage Hotel Bléville Museum, Fortunes and servitudes May 10 – November 10, 2023 Rouen (RMM), Corderie Vallois Museum, Notre-Dame-de-Lobondeville, The other side of prosperity, May 10 – September 17, 2023 Honfleur, Eugène Boudin Museum, From land to land, May 10 – November 10, 2023 Lillebonne, Juliobona Museum Who are you Apollo? From Juliobona to pop culture April 15 – November 30, 2023 |
Nouvelle-Aquitaine | Bordeaux, CAPC, Museum of Contemporary Art Jean Sabrier, what we can’t see April 6, 2023 – December 31, 2023 Dax, Borda Museum D Generation – Gischia and friends: 1930 – 1963 February 7 – December 30, 2023 |
Occitania | Toulouse, museum Sex Appeal October 2023 – July 2024 Perpignan, Hyacinthe Rigaud Museum Guino-Renoir or the fourth dimension of sculpture (provisional title) June 25 – November 5, 2023 |
Pays-de-la-Loire | The Pallet, Musée du Vignoble Nantais Heloise and Abelard: the invention of a myth May 15 – August 15, 2023 Nantes, Castle of the Dukes of Brittany - History Museum of Nantes Genghis Khan, The Mongols have changed the world October 14, 2023 – May 5, 2024 |
Provence-Alpes-French Riviera | Hyères, The Bank, Museum of Culture and Landscape Man Ray, the good weather July 8 – November 12, 2023 Nice, Matisse Museum Matisse notebooks of art. The turn of the 1930s June 23 – September 24, 2023 Marseille, museum of decorative arts, earthenware and fashion Fantasy Asia, Exotic Stories in the Decorative Arts in Provence in the XVIIIe and XIXe centuries 23 June 2023 – 19 May 2024 |