The sample books collected since the 1830s to provide Mulhouse with the largest collection of motifs from the printed textile industry, were the heart of the museum. Rarely exhibited for reasons of fragility, the samples presented tell the singular story of the MISE and its famous library of motifs. Others are animated in a dynamic projection that explores the creative movements and artistic trends that have
influenced textile designers. Between didactic hanging and digital immersion, the exhibition invites you to follow the thread of the construction of the MISE collections.
Following the massive flights discovered in 2018, the State has notified the Musée de l'Impression sur étoffes (MISE), an associative museum benefiting from the designation «Musée de France», to carry out conservation work around its collections. Under the supervision and project management of the DRAC Grand Est, guarantor of the exercise of scientific and technical control of the State, a project of the collections is undertaken in 2020. Realized in partnership with the scientific team of the museum, and the
financial and technical support from Mulhouse Alsace Agglomération (m2A), its objective is the safety and durability of the pieces that were most affected by the looting. These are the collections of the Service d'utilisation des documents (SUD), which collects millions of textile and graphic arts samples dating from the 18th century to the present day.
This collection, which documents the art and the textile printing industry in Mulhouse and around the world, was at the centre of the establishment project when the museum was founded in 1833. It has since established its reputation well beyond its borders
national.
What is a formal notice? Why a collection project? What is it? What are the objectives? Over what period? Who works there? How long does it take? What will be left of this action? And within the collections, how many assets are missing? Can we find them? How to return them to the museum? What future is reserved for them? Can the museum still boast of preserving «the largest collection in the world» of printed fabric samples? So many questions that the exhibition wants to answer.
The focus is on the benefits of the project. This action, at the heart of the formal notice procedure, allows the application of measures specific to the ethics of museums, in connection with the Heritage Code and the exercise of the professions of conservation and restoration.
The exhibition offers a didactic presentation that allows visitors to discover the backstage of the construction of the collections: presentation of the SUD funds and the problems caused by their degradation, explanation of tools and working methods, the procedure and the operating chain set up. The digitization of the parts and the feeding of the database lead to the creation of an image bank that allows to identify the items registered in the inventory.
Interviews with the actors of the site reflect on the highlights of the actions undertaken or the remarkable objects they discovered.
Another space offers visitors a digital immersion: the motifs are projected in a dynamic sequence that allows to explore the artistic registers and creative movements that animated the textile designers since the XVIIIe century.
Mediation
The course is fully translated into German and English.
The exhibition offers an accompanying booklet for children.
Adult, child and family workshops will be offered throughout the year to explore various aspects of heritage crafts and printed fabric (scrapbooking, dyeing, printing).
Programme for the European Heritage Days 2023
Friday, September 15, 2023 – HERITAGE CHILDREN (School Day)
From 9h30 to 11h30; and from 14h00 to 16h00
The temporary exhibition «Quel chantier!» opens the doors of the largest collection of samples from the printed textile industry thanks to many mediation tools: didactic hanging, digital immersion and amazing anecdotes of the actors of the site.
As part of this exhibition, the Musée de l'Impression étoffes propre will take a guided tour followed by a workshop:
- Get involved in the "behind the scenes" of the museum’s collections and discover the professions of curator, curator and heritage restorer. These conservation professionals bring their know-how and knowledge essential to the preservation of works.
One-hour interactive guided tour led by mediator Anne Baumann.
- Supervised and accompanied by the artist Céline Lachkar, trained at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, you will create a collective textile fresco by applying motifs inspired by those projected in the exhibition. You will work with the stamp technique. Let your creativity run wild, combine the patterns and colors of your choice to compose a fresco that you can win at school!
Saturday, September 16 and Sunday, September 17, 2023 – BEHIND THE SCENES
Guided tour of 1h30 (departure of visits: 13h, 14h30, 16h)
The temporary exhibition «Quel chantier!» opens the doors of the largest collection of samples from the printed textile industry thanks to many mediation tools: didactic hanging, digital immersion and amazing anecdotes of the actors of the site.
Immerse yourself in the "backstage" of the museum’s collections, and discover the professions of curator, curator of collections and heritage restorer. These conservation professionals bring their know-how and knowledge essential to the preservation of works.
Speaker: Anne Baumann, cultural mediator.
Saturday, September 16 and Sunday, September 17, 2023 – TEXTILE MURAL
From 13:30 to 17:30 (free workshop open to all)
Supervised and accompanied by the artist Céline Lachkar, trained at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, you will realize a collective textile fresco by applying motifs inspired by those projected in the exhibition. You will work with the stamp technique. Let your creativity run wild, arrange the patterns and colors of your choice to compose a large fresco that will then be exhibited in the last room of the temporary exhibition.
Speaker: Céline Lachkar, textile artist.
About the museum
The Museum of Textile Printing (MISE) is an associative museum, created in 1954 on the basis of museums formed in the XIXe century, which benefits from the name «Musée de France».
At the same time museum of decorative and industrial art, technical museum and local history museum, the MISE aims to promote textile printing by relying on textile collections, graphic arts, archival collections, sample books, industrial machinery and equipment, but also ethnographic objects and decorative arts. Also, the museum preserves a heritage of very varied nature linked to the textile industry of Mulhouse, but not only, since it testifies to the art of textile printing throughout the world.
Learn more
Address: 14 rue Jean-Jacques Henner – 68100 MULHOUSE
Telephone (standard): 03 89 46 23 00
Email: home@musee-impression.com
Website : www.musee-impression.com
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