On the agenda

88 events are organized by the "museums of France" in Brittany this year. Workshops, lightning visits, flash visits, discoveries of reserves, vigils by the fire, surveys or walks told, concerts and film screenings are on the program.

As examples:

• In the Côtes-d'Armor

The Mathurin Méheut museum in Lamballe  welcomes you free of charge from 19:00 to 22:30 in the premises of the stud farm where he moved in July 2022 . Limited gauge, by reservation.

• In Finistère

The museum of the Jacobins of Morlaix is under construction since 2020. It opens its doors exceptionally all day. Visits accessible by reservation Mandatory at 02 98 88 07 75 will allow the participants to discover part of the reserves of the museum and the excavations carried out in the abbey; the latter allowed to unearth more than 230 graves. 

Abbey of the Jacobins Morlaix © museedemorlaix

The Port-museum of Douarnenez  offers 3 discovery workshops around plants that make the Breton identity as part of its exhibition In the garden of Hesperides :
- Tasting workshop of local fruits and vegetables revisited by municipal cuisine. Be surprised by original and creative recipes (20h/22h)
- Meeting with artist Patricia Chemin (8:30-9:30 p.m.). Discover the tissue paper sculptures of this artist and come to exchange with her around her work
- "Hands in the Earth" workshop with Marie Cultive (20h-22h). Discover the ways of growing certain vegetable plants.

In addition to highlighting their own collections, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Breton departmental museum of Quimper join forces to offer a survey to young visitors. They are invited to follow in the footsteps of Joseph Bigot, a great architect, who worked at the Musée des Beaux-Arts and the Breton departmental museum. Apparently, he designed the most beautiful museum in France... 
The mission of the participants will be to find all the pieces of the plan lost for two centuries to become the future brilliant architect of the perfect museum. 

Proposal of the museums of Quimper © musée départemental breton

• In Ille-et-Vilaine

Museum of Brittany/ Champs Libres in Rennes opens its reserves to visitors on reservation. 500,000 objects are kept in the basement of the Champs Libres. From textiles to graphic arts to goldsmithing, discover these spaces usually closed to the public.

Concert in the hall of the Champs Libres: 22h15 to 23h45 The 4 talskan musicians make their roots travel through compositions of traditional Breton inspirations mixed with new sounds and a modern aesthetic.

Concert on the square: Nola Rennes Experience 7.45 pm to 8.15 pm 
The brass band welcomes you in music around the jazz repertoire of yesterday and today of New-BrunswickOrléans, city cradle of a music with communicative energy drawing its origin from the parades that gather the crowd around the brass and percussions to celebrate the joys and sorrows of existence.

It also offers several animations around the exhibition labeled of national interest      Dying, what a story! : 

The TéKiToi company offers from 8:15 pm to 11:15 pm to children and adults to change their faces… from a small "mortal" touch at the corner of the cheek to a complete metamorphosis in the colors of the famous festival "El dia de los muertos".  

Coucou l'ankou - visit told from 20:15 to 20:45. The little ones have a thousand and one questions about death. Through 2 stories, they discover the Breton and Aboriginal imaginaries. They put words and emotions on the great cycle of life. 

Karaoke de la muerte! from 8:15 pm to 10:15 pm. Come sing and vibrate around some gems in French or Spanish. In Mexico, Spain, Chile or elsewhere, the songs tell a lot about the relationship between the living and death. Sung at the top of their lungs or hummed, they accompany the passages of life and speak of love, legends and struggle.

Introduction to engraving in the margins of the exhibition Mourir, quelle histoire! © Champs Libres

In Vitré, the castle museum opens the fortress and its collections after sunset. You can discover the new Arthur Lemoyne de la Borderie room (1827-1901), first curator of the castle museum and famous historian of Brittany. Former guard room, this space located on the ground floor of the Saint-Laurent tower now presents remarkable statues, paintings and objects representative of the early days of the establishment. A sound animation evoking the seat of the castle by the Duke of Mercœur during the War of Religion and a medieval and traditional medieval harp concert of Korydwenn are offered in the same tower.

• In the Morbihan

The museum of Faouët, Located in the former convent of the Ursulines, offers an evening told. Surrounded by landscapes, illuminations and miniatures by Ernest Guérin (1887-1952), storyteller Jean-Marc Derouen will take you on a journey through worlds as fantastic, legendary and dreamlike as the artist’s works. 2 performances of 20 minutes approximately at 19:30 and 21:00. 

Evening tales at the Faouët Museum © Faouët Museum

The Carton Voyageur, postcard museum in Baud, offers another nice look on Brittany with the Belgian specialist of hijacking "Un Faux Graphiste".
Through the exhibition presented, this master of the absurd will offer you his singular and anachronistic vision of Brittany and the contemporary world.
Accompanied by her ignorance of Breton culture, her imagination, artificial intelligence and Lorient ceramist Manon Moy, discover Brittany as no one would have dared to portray it. 

Baud Postcard Museum © A False Graphic Designer

Events near you:

For further proposals and details of the events organized by each museum, consult the official website of the European Night of Museums.

"The class, the work!": a place for artistic and cultural education (EAC) for this night of museums

Long-term, BEC projects are designed by young people in connection with artists, curators, public services and museum educational services during or outside school time. As examples:

• The museum of the Compagnie des Indes in Port-Louis puts music in the spotlight: restitution of the musical project of the musical training class of cycle 3 - Conservatoire de Lorient. Harpists, flutists, an oboist, a bassoonist, trumpeters, guitarists, a violinist, a hornist, a tubist and a percussionist of this class prepare you a rich and varied musical evening: Vivaldi, Rameau, but also French melodies, African music, gospel, creations… Come live in music the emotions of the epic of the India Road!

Music at the museum of the Compagnie des Indes Port-Louis © G.BROUDIC- MCI-VILLE DE LORIENT

• At the Museum of Fine Arts in Brest in connection with the observation of the work of Mathurin Méheut, Sea fauna, the Grande Section class of the Jacquard school offers its plastic productions as well as a «fish dance», in reference to the collective and abundant aspect of the painting.

Marine fauna Mathurin Méheut © Brest Museum of Fine Arts