The MuMo x Centre Pompidou museum truck powered by Art Explora
Art Explora, in partnership with the Centre Pompidou and the MuMo association, launched a new mobile museum that hit the roads of France in 2022 to reach out to all kinds of audiences. Since then, works of modern and contemporary art travel to several regions and villages in France, through two annual thematic exhibitions.
The 2025 tour
"En voyage" from January 19 to June 6
The "En voyage" exhibition explores the theme of travel. Since ancient times, it has been a source of inspiration for artists and has contributed to the creative process. Art is influenced by travel, and travel in turn is modified by art.
Traveling artists help document and disseminate images of faraway places. Their interactions with other artists and their experiences during their travels nourish their graphic and artistic experiments. The desire to cross borders permeates the stories we tell to make sense of the world, from great epics to science fiction, from travel diaries to self-discovery.
Through some twenty works from the Centre Pompidou's collections, this exhibition questions our ways of thinking. Most of the journeys we think about involve physical displacement, but the journeys that take place in the mind also cross time and cultures. The work of art is itself a means of travel.
The program:
- 19/01: Carquefou (44)
- 20-21/01: Saint-Herblain - (Quartiers Politique de la Ville Sillon de Bretagne) (44)
- From 22 to 24/01: Orvault (QPV Plaisance) (44)
- From 27 to 29/01: Saint-Brévin-les-Pins (44)
- 30 and 31/01: Saint-Père-en-Retz
- From 10 to 12/02: Sillé-le-Guillaume - CC. de la Champagne Conlinoise et du Pays de Sillé (72)
- February 13 and 14: Fresnay-sur-Sarthe - CC. Haute Sarthe Alpes Mancelles (72)
- From 17 to 21/02: CC. Océan Marais de Monts (85)
- From 03 to 07/03: Saint-Michel-en-l'Herm (85)
- From 10 to 14/03: Sainte-Hermine (85)
- March 17 & 18: Coëx (85)
- From 19 to 21/03: Givrand (85)
- March 24 & 25: Bonnétable (72)
- From 26 to 28/03: Mamers (72)
- From 03/31 to 04/04: CC. Loir-Lucé-Bercé (72)
- From 07 to 11/04: Pré-en-Pail-Saint-Samson - CC. Mont des Avaloirs (53)
- From 14 to 18/04: Juigné-sur-Loire and Terranjou - CC. Loire Layon Aubance (49)
- April 22 & 23: Laval (53)
- From 24 to 26/04: Loiron-Ruillé (53)
- From 04/28 to 05/02: CC. de l'Ernée (53)
- May 12-14: Saumur (49)
- May 15 & 16: Montreuil-Bellay (49)
- From May 21 to 23: Noyant-Villages (49)
- From 02 to 06/06: CC. Sud Sarthe (72)
The 2024 tour
"Living beings" from February 5 to May 18
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Awarded the "Cultural Olympiad" label by Paris 2024, the MuMo is travelling through Île-de-France, Hauts-de-France and Normandy regions for this new tour, to echo the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The "Êtres Vivants" exhibition is a poetic evocation of the cosmos, which, according to its original definition in Greek antiquity, covers all natural elements. The sky, the constellations, the planet and the organisms that inhabit it are thought of as a single entity: the living.
Through 25 artworks, this exhibition questions the links between mankind and the planet. Drawn from diverse eras and geographies, they testify to the power of the cosmic imagination and the ability of artists to reinvent it and adapt it to the most contemporary issues.
The program:
- From 05 to 07/02: Ermont (95)
- From 08 to 09/02: Vigny (95)
- From 10 to 13/02: Marines (95)
- From 14 to 16/02: L'Isle Adam (95)
- From 19 to 23/02: Buchelay (78)
- From 02/26 to 03/01: Plaisir (78)
- From 04 to 08/03: Limours (91)
- From 11 to 13/03: Milly-la-Forêt (91)
- From 14 to 15/03 Saint-Escobille (91)
- From 18 to 20/03: Ferté Gaucher (77)
- From 21 to 22/03: Othis (77)
- March 25 to 27: Montereau-Fault-Yvonne(77)
- From 28 to 29/03: Voulx (77)
- From 08 to 13/04: Bourg-Achard (27)
- From April 15 to 17: CC Pays du Neubourg -Neubourg (27)
- From 18 to 19/04: CC Pays du Neubourg - St Aubin(27)
- From April 22 to 27: Les Andelys (27)
- From 02 to 04/05: Fourmies (59)
- From 08 to 10/05: Guise (02)
"Dans les règles de l'art" from May 27 to October 5
Awarded the "Cultural Olympiad" label by Paris 2024, the MuMo is travelling through Île-de-France, Hauts-de-France and Normandy regions for this new tour, to echo the Paris 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The "Dans les règles de l'art" exhibition brings together some twenty works whose creative process incorporates mechanisms external to the personal decisions of their authors. Within their artistic practice, some artists choose to delegate their choices to pre-established rules, methods or systems.
Whether they appeal to the law of chance or to programme mathematics, they seek to shed the instinctive, arbitrary nature of artistic creation. Certain technical features of the creative process (folding, crumpling, collage, dilution of paint, drips, etc.) enable artists to distance themselves from their subjectivity, and to discover the final form of their works sometimes after they have been produced.
''With the Dans les règles de l'art exhibition, the MuMo x Centre Pompidou continues its itinerancy, this time questioning the rules of the game, be they social, sporting or cultural. At Paris 2024, we are delighted to take part in the MuMo's collective and unifying adventure by integrating Dans les règles de l'art into the programming of the Cultural Olympiad, which shares the common desire to create meeting points between art, sport, and youth on the occasion of the Olympic and Paralympic Games."
-Dominique Hervieu, Director of Culture for Paris 2024.
With works by Roland Flexner, Al Taylor, Jean-Luc Parant, Simon Hantaï, Wade Guyton, Jean-Claude Marquette, Aurélie Nemours, François Morellet, A. Michael Noll, Ladislav Novak, Herbert W. Franke, Pierrick Sorin and Raphael Montañez Ortiz, from the collection of the Musée national d'art moderne - Centre Pompidou.
The program:
- 05/27 - 06/01: Antony (92)
- 03 - 04/06: Mary-sur-Marne (77)
- 06/05: Dammartin-en-Goële (77)
- 06 - 07/06: Compans (77)
- 06/10 - 06/14: Verneuil-sur-Avre et d'Iton (27)
- 06/17 - 06/21: Beuzeville (27)
- 06/24 - 06/26: Luzarches (95)
- 06/27 - 06/28: Baillet (95)
- 06/29 - 06/30: Saint-Denis (93)
- 01 - 05/07: Maison-Alfort (94)
- 08/07: Saint-Aubin-en-Bray (60)
- 09/07: Saint-Germer de Fly (60)
- 10 - 12/07: Chaumont-en-Vexin (60)
- 15 - 16/07: Hesdin - CC des 7 Vallées
- 17 - 18/07: Etaples-sur-Mer, Agglo Montreuil-sur-Mer (62)
- 19 - 20/07: Berck-sur-Mer, Agglo Montreuil-sur-Mer (62)
- 07/29 - 07/31: Chennevières-sur-Marne (94)
- 01 - 02/08: Choisy-le-Roi (94)
- 08/05 - 09/08: Grigny (91)
- 12 - 13/08: Montmagny (95)
- 08/14: Fosses(95)
- August 15 - 16: Sarcelles (95)
- 08/26 - 08/30: Meaux (77)
- 09 - 10/09: Magny-en-Vexin (95)
- 09/11 - 12/09: Montmagny (95)
- 09/13 - 14: Bouffémont (95)
- 09/23 - 09/27: Vitry (94)
The 2023 tour
"Music! Musique!" from March 20 to June 17
"Musique! Musique!" is the third MuMo x Centre Pompidou tour imagined by Christian Briend, curator at the Musée national d'art moderne's modern collections department, and travels through Seine-et-Marne, Yvelines, Essonne, Val de Marne and Val d'Oise.
Music has always inspired artists in other disciplines, but this dialogue has never been as intense as in the 20th century.
"Musique! Musique!" exhibits photographic, graphic, painted and collage works representing both music in the making and plastic equivalents of musical material, reminding us that modern art was formed from correspondences between sound and visual forms.
Featuring some fifteen works from the Centre Pompidou collection, the exhibition invites visitors to discover how artists have drawn inspiration from music in a wide variety of styles.
"La Caravane du bizarre" from September 18, 2023 to January 13, 2024
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On its fourth tour, the MuMo x Centre Pompidou travels through the Ardennes, Aube, Haute-Marne, Meuse and Vosges with the exhibition"La Caravane du bizarre" , conceived by Nathalie Ernoult, curator at the Musée national d'art moderne.
Curious characters, fantastic animals, disturbing landscapes, La Caravane du bizarre reveals the artistic imagination around the bizarre.
Featuring some twenty works from the Centre Pompidou collection, the exhibition takes visitors on a journey through the world of weirdness, between wonder, shock and fright - emotion guaranteed!
Le Parcours:
- From 18 to 29/09 then from 30/10 to 03/11: Vosges department (88)
- From 02 to 08/10 : Commune de Marseille (13 )
- From 10 to 27/10: Ardennes department (08)
- 06 to 17/11 then 02 to 06/01: Meuse department (55)
- From 11/20 to 12/08: Aube department (10)
- From 11 to 29/12: Haute-Marne department (52)
- From 09 to 13/01: Commune de Massy (91)
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The 2022 tour
"Les animaux sortent de leur réserve" from June 25 to September 3
The first tour of the museum truck began in Massy, for its inauguration on June 25, 2022. The truck criss-crossed France, from Essonne to Finistère, with two successive exhibitions.
An ensemble of 22 works from the Centre Pompidou collection is brought out of the museum's storerooms to meet the public.
This exhibition invites the humorous and poetic imagination of man's attachment to animals, which have always been intimately linked.
Art Explora podcasts extend the life of exhibitions
To extend the exhibitions with additional content available on Art Explora Academy, Art Explora has teamed up with Lacmé to co-produce two podcast series for children, each comprising 4 episodes of around 10 minutes.
Each episode is based on a text written for the occasion by a different author, and is performed by a voice from the Comédie Française. It is freely inspired by a work in the exhibition.
The series inspired by the "Les animaux sortent de leur réserve" exhibition is entitled "BestiaireImaginaire".
"Light" from September to November
14 works in a variety of techniques, from the 1920s to the present day, represent light in all its forms.
Art Explora podcasts extend the life of exhibitions
To extend the exhibitions with additional content available on Art Explora Academy, Art Explora has teamed up with Lacmé to co-produce two podcast series for children, each comprising 4 episodes of around 10 minutes.
Each episode is based on a text written for the occasion by a different author, and is performed by a voice from the Comédie Française. It is freely inspired by a work in the exhibition.
The series inspired by the Lumière exhibition is entitled "Et la Lumière fut!"
The Mobile Museum
The MuMo x Centre Pompidou
The MuMo (mobile museum) was founded in 2011 by Ingrid Brochard to make modern and contemporary art accessible to those who live far from it. Schools and structures in the social and medico-social field (retirement homes, social centers, children’s homes, etc.) but also families and all the inhabitants of the towns and villages crossed by the MuMo can therefore take advantage of an exhibition and discovery workshops near their homes.
Origins of the project
To mark the 10th anniversary of MuMo and the 45th anniversary of the Centre Pompidou, the two entities have joined forces to design this new museum truck that will travel the roads of France to meet inhabitants, with works from the Centre Pompidou's modern and contemporary art collection on board.
The Art Explora Foundation, convinced that mobility is a powerful lever for sharing art and culture with the greatest number of people, has joined the project. It contributes financially to the construction of the new museum truck, participates in the artistic programming of the truck's major events and develops additional content to extend the experience of the visit through its Art Explora Academy platform.
The museum-truck
The truck was created by award-winning designer Hérault Arnod Architectures in collaboration with artist Krijn de Koning.
This collaboration leaves plenty of room for the works on display. The truck has been designed as a multifunctional tool, simple and adaptable to different uses around three spaces: the loggia, the exhibition room and the alcove. The loggia opens outwards like a theatre stage to welcome the public. The exhibition room is the heart of the system, a refined space in which the technical elements are hidden in order to avoid visual disturbances in front of the works. The alcove is the raised space that extends the exhibition room. It can be a projection room with seating, a place for sculptures or a work of art in itself, imagined by Krijn de Koning.
Since 2011, the MuMo :
- has had 150 000 visitors from 7 countries across Europe and Africa
- 50% of the children who visited in had never been to a museum before
- 50% of the villages the MuMo visited had less than 2,000 inhabitants or were in Urban Policy Districts
«The beauty of MuMo lies in its ability to bring together people who might not have otherwise connected through art.»
Ingrid Brochard, Founder of MuMo
The Centre Pompidou's involvement
True to its spirit of openness and its desire to make culture and creation accessible to as many people as possible, the Centre Pompidou is developing numerous projects outside its walls.
The project carried out with MuMo and Art Explora is part of this desire to reach out to the public in the region, initially in the Ile-de-France region with an opening in Massy and then more widely in France.
"We have been interested in this project from the start, a little over 10 years ago. The MuMo is eagerly awaited and the Centre Pompidou is very happy to be able to show some works from its collection."
Laurent Le Bon, President of the Centre Pompidou
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