This coming weekend sees the evening when public museums across France are open until late, with special events and free entry. In Aix, it’s a lovely event with families thronging through the streets and music spilling out of all the venues. This link will take you to all the activities: https://www.aixenprovencetourism.com/en/fiche/29336
Paul Cézanne (1839-1906), La Montagne Sainte-Victoire, 1897
The big opportunity will be to see the Musée Granet’s newly acquired Cézanne painting of the Montagne Sainte-Victoire. Although he painted the mountain over and over, it’s the first time in decades that one has been seen in Aix. It’s from the Collection Gurlitt which came together after WW2. So a complicated legal background, but it’s on loan to Aix for fifteen years from the Musee de Berne. The painting will be at the heart of a new exhibition ‘Sainte(s) Victoire(s)’ http://www.museegranet-aixenprovence.fr/expositions/prochainement/saintes-victoires.html
Marseille has a good programme of events for the evening. I especially like the proposal from the Vieille Charité to visit its Egyptian collection of mummies (cat, ibis and human) by torchlight, 20-22:00hrs.
Programme here: programme_NUIT_DES_MUSEES_2019
One highlight, literally, will be seeing MuCEM – and Marseille – illuminated.
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