Mucem 10 years

With its feet firmly in the water, Mucem is firmly committed to protecting marine biodiversity and combating pollution. From Friday, April 5 to Sunday, April 7, 2024, the Mucem joins forces with the Tara Ocean Foundation for a weekend of conferences, screenings, immersive workshops and artistic performances, inviting us to build “A Big Blue Museum” together. The Tara Ocean Foundation develops high-level scientific expertise on the sea and ocean. In April 2023, the schooner Tara set...

What will our gardens look like in 20 years’ time? Why can the “punk garden” help us curb climate change? What practical solutions are there to curb drought in the here and now? On the weekend of June 15 and 16, to mark its 10th anniversary, the Mucem will be hosting a major sharing and exchange event for all plant lovers concerned by environmental issues and the protection of living organisms. Over the next two days, we’ll be in the Jardin des Migrations at Fort...

It’s back to school time! The Mucem and Aix-Marseille Université invite students, researchers and all gourmets to come together for a picnic and tastings during the Le Jeu de l’Oie festival, in collaboration with Les Grandes Tables and La Criée. In conjunction with the “Le grand Mezzé” exhibition, these two days devoted to the theme of “Eating in the Mediterranean” offer a varied menu: round tables, tours, workshops, a free concert – a program to be savored in the style of a...

Since its inauguration in 2013, the Mucem has been much more than a museum, transforming both a piece of Marseille and its facade on the sea. As part of the Journées nationales de l’architecture, the Mucem is celebrating its 10th anniversary by giving pride of place to architecture at the very heart of its building. A weekend of meetings, lectures, readings, tours, performances and workshops where architects, artists, sociologists, landscape architects and researchers will share their...

Mohamed El Khatib is Mucem’s guest artist for the 2023 season. With his Renault 12 installation, he pays homage to the thousands of North African families who, from the 70s to the 90s, criss-crossed France and Spain every summer by car, right up to the ferries that took them to the Maghreb, to the lands of their origins… To bring this installation to life, Mohamed El Khatib creates the 504 performance. Among the founding myths deeply linked to the Mediterranean, the return to Ithaca...

Mucem and La Varappe launch the 1st Inclusion Day.

The Mucem is 10 years old, and it’s time to celebrate! From June 2023 to June 2024, 10 exceptional events will punctuate the year: an anniversary year to which you’re all invited! The festivities kick off with a grand opening weekend on June 3 and 4: For two days, the artists mingle with the public in an abundance of surprises and unexpected encounters, in the exhibition halls as well as in the museum’s corridors and the gardens of Fort Saint-Jean. As you stroll along,...

For the opening of its permanent exhibition “Populaire?”, the Mucem commissioned four writers to write around a hundred labels to bring out the poetics of the objects on display. To mark the “Nuits de la lecture”, the Mucem is dedicating a weekend to literature from January 19 to 21, with meetings with Roberto Saviano and Sorj Chalandon, the exceptional filming of the program La Grande Librairie presented by Augustin Trapenard, a creation by Clotilde Mollet and Hervé Pierre about objects, our...