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Current European projects
- Alexandria: (Re)activating Common Urban Imaginaries (2020 – 2023)
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The project "Alexandria: (re)activating common urban imaginaries" (ALEX) aimed to take a fresh look at the many challenges faced by the arts and heritage sectors, through the symbolic and historical prism of the city of Alexandria and its influences on urban development in the Mediterranean and beyond.
To do so, it relied on several tools: the setting up of nomadic artistic residencies between Egypt and Europe, the production of exhibitions in the cities of Marseille and Brussels, as well as the organisation of professional seminars and public forums.
Thus, the 'Alexandria' project took visitors, contemporary artists, scientists and activists on a journey between heritage and creation, between the north and south of the Mediterranean, in a quest for what constitutes today our imaginaries of the city, its origin and its future.
Conceived as an enabler for European and Mediterranean cooperation, this project ran from 1 November 2020 to 31 December 2023. The project, supported by the European Union's Creative Europe programme, drew on the resources of eight main partners:
—the Royal Museum of Mariemont (Morlanwelz)
—the Palais des Beaux-Arts "BOZAR" (Brussels)
—the Cittadellarte of the Pistoletto Foundation (Biella, Italy)
—the Onassis Stegi Foundation - Ariona Hellas AE (Athens)
—the University of Leiden (the Netherlands)
—the Kunsthall of Aarhus (Denmark)
—the Undo Point Contemporary Art centre (Nicosia, Cyprus)In addition, the project benefits from the support of associated partners contributing its success elsewhere in Europe and in Egypt:
—the French Institute of Alexandria (Egypt)
—CLUSTER (Egypt)
—Theatrum Mundi (United Kingdom)Alexandria project Exhibition Alexandria: Past Futures
- Taking Care (2019 – 2023)
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The Taking Care project falls within the alarming international context of the 21st century. Indeed, the environmental, political and human aftermaths of the Anthropocene start to show-up: global warming, flooding, displaced population, wars and so on. Looking at a continental scale, Europe faces crisis as well: right-wing and populism rise, distrust toward ruling classes, identity and ideology crisis.
In this situation, Taking Care places Ethnographic and World Cultures museums at the centre of the search for possible strategies which will define the Europe of tomorrow. Curators, artists and searchers will tackle these many challenges.
Taking Care is part of Creative Europe Culture programme. The project will last four years during which conferences, seminaries, artist residencies and exhibitions will be host at thirteen partners facilities from eleven European countries.
- Weltmuseum, (ethnographic museum, Austria)
- Culture Lab, (consulting company, Belgium)
- Institut de cultura de Barcelona, (public institute, Spain)
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart – Staatliches museums für volkerkunde, (world cultures museum, Germany)
- Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali, (Ministry of Culture, Italy)
- Musée royal de l’Afrique Centrale,(ethnographic museum, Belgium)
- Museum am Rothenbaum, (world cultures museum, Germany)
- Nationalmuseet, (national museums group, Denmark)
- Slovenski Etnografski Muzej, (ethnographic museum, Slovenia)
- Statens Museer for Varldskultur, (world cultures museum, Sweden)
- Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, (national museums group, Netherlands)
- The chancellor masters and scholars of the university of Cambridge, (public university, United-Kingdom)
- The chancellor masters and scholars of the university of Oxford, (public university, United-Kingdom)
Taking Care project Exhibition
Taking Care is the follow-up to the work already started in the earlier projects SWICH (2014-2018), RIME (2008-2012), and READ-ME I & II (2007-2012), building on their outcomes.
- ReCulture: Re-branding of Cultural Institutions in Western Balkans (2021 – 2024)
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« ReCulture: Re-branding of Cultural Institutions in Western Balkans » is a long-term European project with a twofold objective: it aims to give more more visibility and a more modern appearance to cultural institutions in the Western Balkans. At the same time, it aims to support relations and cooperation between the cultural and creative sectors in the Western Balkans and the EU Member States.
ReCulture is part of Creative Europe Culture programme. It has 6 beneficiary partners from 5 European countries :
—The cultural center of Trebinje (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
—Association « INK Fest » (Serbia) & Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade (Serbia)
—Museum of Contemporary Art of Republic of Srpska (Bosnia-Herzegovina)
—Art Colony Danilovgrad (Monténégro)
—iCP Institut for Cultural Policy (Autriche)
Past European projects
- Metropolitan Trails Academy (2018 – 2020)
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The Metropolitan Trails Academy project, under the European Erasmus+ programme, seeks to train adults about the challenges involved in urban development with respect to the concept of metropolitan citizenship.
The project will develop and promote metropolitan trails as a multidisciplinary and civic educational tool by using concrete knowledge, proven know-how and the practices used by participating organisations. To do this, partners will create a charter to outline the concept of metropolitan trails, a guide for developing new trails or structuring existing trails, and online training for people who use and develop trails. These productions will specifically target project managers and will be promoted by six events, in the form of walking lectures.
This innovative training project includes six beneficiary partners (Sentiers Métropolitains; Le Bureau des guides du GR2013; Le Mucem; Paths of Greece; Trekking Italia; Urbanegestalt PartGmbB) and eight associate partners (Le Bruit du Frigo; Le Voyage Métropolitain; The South Region (former PACA Region); Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris Île-de-France Region (IAU ÎDF); Green Evolution; Haus der Architektur Köln; Institut Français de Tunis; Counterproductions).
Metropolitan Trails Academy Project Training courses Mooc registration
- Excavating Contemporary Archaeology (2018 – 2020)
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Since September, Mucem has been involved in a new European project, entitled Excavating Contemporary Archaeology. The project is mainly targeted at young people aged 11 to 15, but is also for artists and the general public. The aim is to explore existing links between contemporary artistic creation and archaeology, in the broadest sense of the term meaning traces from the past. The project will span two years and feature two artist residencies, an exhibition and the creation of an information booklet for each partner venue.
Excavating Contemporary Archaeology is funded by the EU Creative Europe programme as part of the European Year of Cultural Heritage. The project brings together three other partners: Kunsthal Aarhus in Denmark, Point Center for Contemporary Art in Cyprus and AIR Antwerpen in Belgium.
The Mucem teams will work with Portuguese artist Francisco Tropa, Cypriot artist Haris Epaminonda, and a class of 11-12-year-olds from Louis Armand secondary school in Marseille’s 12th arrondissement.Publication
Booklet to mark the artist residency of Francisco Tropa in Marseille for the European project Excavating Contemporary Archaeology, funded by the European Commission program, Creative Europe Culture © Mucem, 2019
Based on the text "L'île, à ce qu'on dit" [The island, so they say], produced by the students of the 5e3 class of Collège Louis Armand and an interview with Francisco Tropa by Sandro Piscopo-Reguieg.
—Publication: Mucem
—Graphic design: Åse Eg Jørgensen
—Printing: imprimerie Caractère, Marseille
—Translation: Connected Language Services
—Corrections: Franck Remy - Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage (2014 – 2018)
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Within the frame of this EU-funded project, ten European partner museums reflect current issues concerning the role of ethnographic museums within an increasingly differentiated European society. The focus of SWICH lies on central concerns of visionary ethnographic museum practice within the context of a post-migrant society. The project aims at increasing the role and visibility of Ethnography and World Cultures Museums as centres of cultural encounters, open discourse, creative innovation and knowledge production based on transnational and international collaborations.
Partners:
—Weltmuseum Wien
—Rijksmuseum voor Volkenkunde, Leiden
—Musée royal de l’Afrique centrale, Tervuren
—Museums of World Culture, Sweden
—Linden-Museum, Stuttgart
—Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico «Luigi Pigorini», Roma
—Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge
—National Museum of Slovenia, Belgrade
—Museum of World Cultures, BarcelonaCreative Dialogue: contemporary art in non-art museums February 25th-26th 2016
Stereoculture: The Art of Listening,Shared Authority May 25th - 26th 2016
Residency Miguel Palma February May and July 2016
"Rêvons la ville" Exhibition April 6th - June 9th 2017Supporting Europe's cultural and creative sectors
