MUCEM

"Destination MUCEM": Every Sunday, a free bus service to encourage access to the MUCEM from outlying districts.
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The project

Destination Mucem is a unique mobility scheme for out-of-town visitors: every Sunday, a free bus is organized from outlying districts, enabling new visitors to create a special link with the museum. Personalized, fun mediation is offered during the journey and prepares visitors for their visit, in a friendly atmosphere. On arrival at the museum, visitors receive a free ticket. The bus will serve 4 different routes, and its passage will be prepared by a large-scale communication campaign with local players.

MUCEM

The Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée (MUCEM) is conceived as a cultural city in the heart of Marseille. It represents the social, scientific and political cultural ferment of the Mediterranean world, and offers major artistic, historical and thematic exhibitions, as well as numerous events for the general public.

Contact: Béatrice Goudard - Events Manager - beatrice.goudard@mucem.org

The project

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Young Europe IV is ETC's large-scale artistic project, promoting and mentoring 9 emerging playwrights to write new plays: diverse stories that haven't been sufficiently told or heard on stage. The plays will be produced by 9 European theaters and performed in school classes across cities from the UK to Cyprus, and at a festival in Nova Gorica (Slovenia) in spring 2024.

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The largest network of public theaters in Europe, the European Theatre Convention has 59 European members from over 30 countries, reflecting the diversity of Europe's dynamic cultural sector. Founded in 1988, the ETC promotes European theater as a vital platform for dialogue that responds to and engages with today's changing societies. With the aim of creating a common cultural heritage in Europe, ETC offers its member theaters artistic collaborations and professional development opportunities, and plays a leading role in lobbying the European Union's political decision-makers on behalf of theater.

The project

Open Camp - A New Narrative from children in Refugee Camps is a programme that aims to empower refugee children and teenagers with limited access to education while staying in refugee camps. The programme teaches the art of storytelling and animated cinema, enabling them to develop their artistic skills and tell their own stories.

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At Hirundo we create narratives that bring cultures together. Using artistic languages and training programs, Hirundo promotes creativity and critical thinking to transform problems into opportunities that stimulate growth and learning.

We believe in a society where stories overlap borders and reveal the faces behind the numbers. We believe in civic and informed participation so that complex problems have concrete solutions. We want to be pragmatic without losing the ability to dream of a diverse world capable of accepting this diversity.

The project

”Go on With the Story” is a multidimensional project that Scribonauts have been implementing in the Croatian prison system since 2016. So far it has consisted of a reading group and creative writing workshops in the only Female Penitentiary in Croatia, online book club for former female prisoners and the general public (+500 participants), regional annual short story competition where the public is invited to write a short story inspired by the fragment written by one of the female inmates (250 short stories received every year), and a short story collection “Go on With the Story”, published by Scribonauts in 2020. This collection includes stories by 12 renowned Croatian female writers, which were inspired by textual fragments produced during writing workshops in the female penitentiary. In 2021 the project and the book won the Sozial Marie award for social innovation. With the aim of fostering wider communication between inmates and the public and widening access to art, we now plan to turn short stories from the collection into multimedia pieces through a collaboration between writers, visual artists, and musicians. This will result in multimedia shorts stories in the format of Facebook/Instagram stories which can be widely shared.

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Scribonauts are a non-profit organisation which has been developing and implementing cultural and artistic programs for marginalized groups, primarily inmates in prisons and penitentiaries in Croatia, since 2011. By organising artistic workshops and interactive cultural programs (primarily in the field of literature, film and visual arts) in prisons and penitentiaries and public campaigns, our organisation uses art as a tool to bring together marginalised groups, artists, and communities, and thus facilitates resocialisation and fosters the development of closely knit communities based on (artistic) dialogue and solidarity.

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

"#VersionaThyssen": call on 16-35 year olds to reinterpret the museum's works in their own way and post this reinterpretation on social networks with the #VersionaThyssen
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The project

The project has already gone through 7 editions, and an 8th is currently underway. For each edition, the museum invites young people to freely reinterpret one or more works from its collections, and to post the results on social networks using the hashtag #VersionaThyssen. A jury of professional artists selects the winners. The creations are showcased during festive evenings at the museum or during digital ceremonies with COVID-19. More than 5,000 reinterpretations have already been submitted.

Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza

The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid's Palacio de Villahermosa is home to the Thyssen-Bornemisza collection, owned by the Spanish state and comprising almost nine hundred works of art ranging from the 13th to the 20th century.

Contact

Pepa Octavio de Toledo - Sponsorship Manager- portaviodetoledo@museothyssen.org

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The project was created by CCS associate artist David Llari, and initiated last season with the museums of Strasbourg, Marseille and Williamstown, as well as the FRAME network, all of which were key partners in the project's success. This collaborative effort, the willingness to contribute human and financial resources to the project, and the provision of space and mediation time, have enabled the project to spread far beyond national borders.
The aim is to enable young people to see the world beyond the confines of their own neighbourhoods: to open up to themselves, to others and to the world, through the expression of the body, by appropriating places of cultural excellence in a singular and personal way.
By virtue of their history and their essence, museums and their collections are the ideal partner to bring this project to fruition.

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The Centre Chorégraphique de Strasbourg, also a municipal conservatory since 2008, is part of the cultural landscape as a player in synergy with others, a partner, an interlocutor and a supporter of initiatives. The CCS is now looking to extend its mediation and outreach activities to other European structures.
Since this season and for three years, the CCS has been working with an associate artist, David Llari, whose innovative method enables this concrete experience of "building together" by appropriating the language of the body in cultural mediation in a singular and personal way. In this way, the body enables us to move from a common language to universal expression.

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The project

Digital Art School is one of the only creative outlets currently accessible within mental health hospital wards in the UK, having reached over 142,000 participants since launching in 2020. Hospital Rooms, partnering with NHS England and Winsor & Newton, will now send top-quality art materials and deliver a safeguarded programme and interactive platform, designed by and for people with severe mental illness, to every single mental health ward in the country.

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Access to art and creativity in mental health units in UK hospitals is extremely limited. This is despite evidence to show the arts “can help patients maintain a sense of personal dignity and control in what are often distressing circumstances” (The Power of Art, 2000), and a real appetite from patients to participate in artistic activity, with one patient saying “I would have given anything to paint”.

Hospital Rooms brings the highest quality artwork and creativity activity into these spaces, working with acclaimed artists to catalyse a fundamental shift in the way we consider and treat people with the most difficult of mental health diagnoses.

The project

Trafó House of Contemporary Arts (Budapest) and Studio ALTA (Prague) join forces to realize new tours of Studio ALTA’s ”PerformanceBus” in Hungary, further developing the experience of earlier dispatches in Czech Republic and Armenia. The ”PerformanceBus” was originally conceived by Studio ALTA with the aim of decentralizing attention directed towards the diverse platforms, institutions and individual activities dedicated to performance art in different regions of the country. In Hungary, due to the ongoing political changes and the shrinking access to critical culture across the country, it has become an increasingly pressing question for Trafó, how the institution could decentralize its activities and facilitate access to contemporary art in different parts of the country. Without institutional partners and public infrastructures that could make the regional touring of artists possible, this becomes a task for new artistic and curatorial imaginaries, which is why we are interested in the experimental project ”PerformanceBus”. Together with Studio ALTA and in collaboration with local artists, we would like to realize three tours of the ”PerformanceBus” in Trafó’s 2025/2026 season, in order to open up a “magic portal” and imagine a more free, democratic and equal acccess to contemporary art and critical culture across Hungary.

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TRAFÓ House of Contemporary Arts, founded in 1998, is an important venue for contemporary arts in Hungary, renowned for its transdisciplinary approach spanning visual arts, performing arts, and music. Operating as a publicly funded municipal institution, it has maintained a stable position in Hungary’s challenging cultural landscape. Recognized as a cornerstone of the international contemporary arts scene in Central and Eastern Europe, TRAFÓ presents and co-produces cutting-edge artistic works. Its diverse programs include performances, concerts, exhibitions, and outreach initiatives aimed at accessibility, openness, and social inclusion. Beyond being an art institution, TRAFÓ serves as a forum for societal dialogue, fostering open and multi-voiced exchange. In the past, TRAFÓ has worked extensively in urban public spaces, producing and presenting site-specific work by local and international artists.

The National Gallery

"National Gallery: Jan van Huysum Visits..." Exhibiting a National Gallery masterpiece outside the museum, in direct contact with the public.
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The project

National Gallery: Jan Van Huysum Visits is the sequel to the highly successful Artemisia Visits project, conducted in 2019. For Artemisia Visits, Artemisia Gentileschi's self-portrait as Saint Catherine of Alexandria (c. 1615-1617) was presented in five non-museum venues across the UK: a doctor's surgery, a girls' school, a women's prison and two libraries. Never before has a 17th-century painting from a national collection been exhibited in this way, making it a unique project. In 2021, the National Gallery plans to tour Flowers in a Terracotta Vase (1736-1737) by Jan van Huysum. This eighteenth-century painting will appear in six new unusual locations around the UK, with the aim of promoting wellbeing, particularly among audiences who have been most affected by COVID 19. The National Gallery will be working with a range of cultural and social partners on this project.

The National Gallery

Founded by Parliament in 1824, the National Gallery houses one of the world's largest collections of paintings, taking visitors on a journey through the art of Western Europe over seven centuries, from the 13th to the 20th century (Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Velàzquez, Titian, Rembrandt, Turner, Monet, Van Gogh...). The museum's main objectives are to enrich the collection, preserve it and make it accessible to all visitors.

Contact

Tracy Jones - Head of press, public relations and public affairs - tracy.jones@ng-london.org.uk

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"La Carroza del Teatro Real" is a mobile stage that travels all over Spain, offering different types of opera and classical music concerts. The float is 16 meters long, 5.80 meters high and weighs almost 6 tons. This impressive traveling stage was built on a converted shipping container. Inside, it can be adapted to suit the needs of a performance. This project focuses on cultural territorial cohesion, and pays particular attention to educational mediation for young audiences and families.
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The Teatro Real is considered Spain's leading performing arts institution, the country's leading opera house and one of Spain's most important cultural institutions, with an international reputation.
The artistic project behind the Teatro Real has led to its current position as one of the leading international opera centers and a benchmark for Spanish cultural institutions. Its artistic programming aims for excellence, focusing on both traditional repertoire and contemporary forms, including 20th-century music and the new avant-garde, with a firm commitment to offering audiences a place to discover today's finest artists and creators. It also pays particular attention to new audiences and the popularization of opera among children and young people.

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The project

The aim of The Manufacture at the hospital is to provide a high quality programme of creative events to hospital patients. This will include meetings with skilled artisans, access to media libraries, multi-sensory materials, and artistic workshops, demonstrations and discussions, all designed to benefit a diverse audience.

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Since 1740, Sèvres - Manufacture et Musées nationaux has been dedicated to the preservation, advancement and expansion of the traditional trade of antique porcelain production. Based across three locations, the institution has a range of facilities including: a traditional factory, two museums, an apprenticeship school, a gallery and a showroom.

Between Paris and Versailles, the Sèvres Manufacture has been active since the 18th century and has gained international prestige, renowned for the quality of its porcelain and its expertise. Under the impetus of guest artists, it is a unique focal point for the creation of shapes and colours. It is a place of excellence, transmission and innovation.

The project

Designed and implemented by the CN D Centre national de la danse, 1km of dance is a festive event, entirely for free. Over a one-kilometre area of public space, there are performances, group warm-ups, dance initiations, DJ sets, etc. Since its creation in Pantin in 2022, 1km de danse has brought together local residents, dance associations, music centres and artists to get as many people as possible dancing together. Open to all types and styles of dance, 1km de danse helps to raise awareness of dance as an art form. The event helps to spread dance throughout the country by giving both amateurs and professionals the chance to get together and dance together. Building on the success of the first two editions in Pantin, the 2024 event was held in three towns: Château-Thierry with the CDCN - L'Échangeur, La Rochelle with the CCN - Mille Plateaux and Sète with the Scène nationale - Théâtre Molière. This dynamic will continue in 2025, with 4 new towns confirmed and 5 others in the process of being validated. The aim is for 1km de danse to become a national event taking place in a large number of towns in France and overseas.

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A public institution created on the initiative of the French Ministry of Culture, the CN D brings together all the resources at the service of the choreographic sector and its audiences. It accompanies and trains professional dancers, encourages amateur practice, supports research, preserves and disseminates choreographic heritage, supports the creation of choreographic works in all their diversity, and dialogues with other artistic fields.

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The "MBASe challenge" is an adventure designed to offer a meaningful experience with art beyond the museum walls for vulnerable children at programme Caixa ProInfancy. Exploring works of art from different collections and eras, participants are challenged to develop a series of creative tasks based on their own observations and responses.

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Seville's Museo de Bellas Artes, considered "Spain's second art gallery", spans two centuries of history. Its origins as an institution can be traced back to Spain's 19th-century Disestablishment Laws, which determined its installation in a former monastery and the nature of its collections, most of which came from institutions that had by then disappeared. It features important Baroque works by artists of the Seville school, such as Murillo, Zurbarán and Valdés Leal. Over the years, the museum has become an essential part of Seville's cultural identity.

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The project

How do you make part of the everyday life of care home residents? That is the question that has inspired the creation of the arts centre in the Sainte Gertrude residence in the heart of the Marolles area in Brussels. Visiting artists take inspiration from encounters and conversations with people who live and work there, and those encounters will result in artworks that will eventually make up the care home’s permanent collection.

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The National Theatre Wallonia-Brussels, directed by Pierre Thys, has created a collective imagination with mulitdisciplinary partners. They work with artists and cultural organisations in Brussels and nationwide, as well as with organisations beyond the arts sector, building new collaborations.

The creation of an art centre in the Sainte Gertrude residence, designed by Mohamed El Khatib – an associate artist of the Théâtre National – is part of this commitment to reach out to the widest possible range of audiences by creating a link between the sectors of art and caregiving, and by breaking down the barriers between artistic disciplines. A number of initiatives will be carried out to invite audiences to step through the doors of the retirement home.

The project

The ”Tell Me Your Story” project aims to create a digital repository to preserve the rich cultural heritage of the Cycladic islands, specifically Anafi, Sikinos, and Kea. These islands, deeply rooted in traditional practices and folklore, face threats from overtourism and climate change, which undermine their unique identity. The project will gather oral histories through intergenerational interviews, focusing on material culture, biodiversity, and intangible traditions. The Museum of Cycladic Art, through its ”Cycladic Identity” initiative, leads the project with support from partners like the Heritage Management Organization and the National Technical University of Athens.  

By utilizing innovative technologies, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools and Large Language Models (LLMs), the project will streamline the transcription and thematic analysis of oral stories. Human experts will work alongside AI to ensure cultural accuracy and preserve these traditions for future generations. The project aims to connect younger generations with their cultural roots and raise awareness about Cycladic heritage both locally and globally. It will also serve as a model for future cultural preservation initiatives in other insular communities. Community engagement, digital platform development, and global outreach are central components of this initiative, fostering both local involvement and international cultural exchange.

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The Museum of Cycladic Art holds one of the most complete collections of Cycladic Art in the world showcasing the famous marble figurines of the 3rd millennium BC that have influenced several twentieth and twenty-first century artists, such as Brancusi, Modigliani, Giacometti, Hepworth, and Moore. Committed to inspiring and benefiting multiple communities, the Museum has made its mark in the city of Athens, within and beyond its walls. The Museum of Cycladic Art is a non-profit legal entity under private law, supervised by the Ministry of Culture. It receives no state funding, and its collections belong to the Greek State.

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Palau Vincles is the socio-musical intervention project through choral singing (born in 2011 and promoted by the ”Fundació Orfeó Català-Palau de la Música”) which is aimed at children and young people in vulnerable situations, who live in areas of high socio-economic complexity.

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The Palau de la Música Catalana, built between 1905 and 1908 by Modernist architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and an emblem of Catalan Modernism. It serves as a cultural and social hub, deeply valued by the people of Catalonia for its history and symbolism.

The Fundació Orfeó Català-Palau de la Música Catalana manages the Palau’s activities and the Orfeó Català choirs. Open and inclusive, it seeks to enhance society through music, focusing on choral singing, cultural heritage dissemination, and social cohesion. Its mission is to promote music, foster understanding and transmission of cultural heritage, and contribute to social integration while strengthening Catalan culture and universal values.

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British Museum

"Your Museum": Create your own personalized British Museum collection online.
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The project

Your Museum is a project offering personalized collections online thanks to personalization algorithms. By answering a series of multiple-choice questions about their favorite hobby, what's important to them, where they've traveled, etc., users will be offered a tailor-made collection of works from the British Museum.

British Museum

The British Museum was established in 1753 by the British Parliament. The museum promotes the study of human societies across the world and across the ages. Today, the British Museum's collection is freely accessible to all visitors, both physically and online.

Contact

development@britishmuseum.org

The home loan challenge

"Musée comme chez soi" (Museum as home) involves organizing home loans of works of art in the vicinity of the museum, in neighborhoods with a strong social mix.

"For me, museums should never be safes," says Claire Leblanc, Director of the Musée d'Ixelles. Taking advantage of its closure for renovation until 2024, the Musée d'Ixelles has taken up the challenge of breaking down walls, by offering a few local residents the chance to host a work of art in their home for a weekend. At the same time, they agreed to let visitors - family, friends and neighbors, as well as curious passers-by and museum regulars - discover the work. The sociology of the neighborhood offers an opportunity to reach an audience unfamiliar with cultural institutions. An operation of this kind calls for a solid canvassing effort upstream: posters, meetings with associations, participation in festivities, etc. Then the creation of a host-mediator tandem, to take care of all the details, from the safe reception of the work to the mediation. "The important thing is simply to enable people to talk about the work in their own words, with their own story," explains one mediator. The first edition was a resounding success, not least for its conviviality. The initiative, which has already been renewed, will ultimately create a large community of ambassadors who will be involved in the discussions surrounding the museum's reopening.

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Contact: Stéphanie Masuy, Head of Audience Services - stephanie.masuy@ixelles.brussels

Budget: €123,080

Partnership: Patrimoine à roulettes

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The museum

Founded in 1892, the Musée d'Ixelles occupies a prime position on the Belgian cultural scene. Its permanent collections, comprising 12,000 works, offer a broad panorama of Belgian art from the 19th century to the present day, and include a number of "happy accidents" such as works by Miró, Picasso and the complete collection of original posters by Toulouse-Lautrec. Currently undergoing renovation and expansion, the Musée d'Ixelles is deploying a transitional project of dynamic intra- and extra-muros closure under the label "Museum in Progress", until the reopening in 2024.

Musée comme chez soi" is a participatory project that creates links. It is also a great lesson in humility for the museum teams: the status of the work and its appropriation are totally revisited. After six editions, obtaining the Award Art Explora award is a wonderful opportunity to develop this extraordinary adventure in another neighboring district that is clearly less familiar with the museum."

Claire LEBLANC, Director, Musée d'Ixelles

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Collecting Dubrovnik: Strategies of Survival

Collecting personal objects from Dubrovnik's inhabitants to build an exhibition in the art center

Storytelling Studio

Create a playful space and innovative activities for children to become innovative storytellers.

"Diaries: Lindart and the Albanian Women Artists Association", Bulevard Art and Media Institute, Albania

Diaries is a way to create an archive as a commons through the lens of the Lindart Association - the first and only Women’s Artist Association in Albania after the end of the Communist Regime in 1991. Conceived in 1993 and founded in 1994 by 14 women artists working within the art scene at the time, Lindart responded to the need for creating new learning opportunities in a context in which old patriarchal traditions continued to shape the development of culture and visual art. The collective opened the Lindart Cultural Center in 2000, and between 2001 and 2010 they developed a program that produced exhibitions, workshops and events. The group also decentralized their activities from the capital city of Tirana, expanding participation in the association to other cities in the country. Despite the historical and international significance of Lindart’s program, their work and their struggle as artists and as women is barely known. Since 2022 Diaries has opened the possibility of creating an archive starting by public participation to the research. The nature of the project is intergenerational, participative with both local and international audiences and archives, embracing art and education as an ongoing methodology.

Centro Botín

"SaludArte": teaching nursing staff to develop their perception and creativity through the arts.
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The project

SaludArte is the result of a collaboration between Centro Botìn and the Marqué de Valdecilla hospital. Through various artistic activities and an 8-session training course created in partnership with Yale University's Center for Emotional Intelligence, the hospital's nursing staff learn through the arts to develop their perception and understanding, and to better manage their emotions or potential conflicts. The aim is, through creativity, to give them the means to understand the challenges they face in their working environment and find innovative solutions to deal with them. In 2019, training helped alleviate some burnout through the organization of concerts or a photo competition, carried out by the caregivers themselves and supported by Centro Botìn. An improvement in well-being at work has been noted, with a positive impact on patients and their families. Centro Botìn intends to continue these training courses and artistic activities for hospital staff, and to offer patients access to art via an in-house television channel and social networks.

Centro Botín

Centro Botin (2017) is the flagship project of the Botìn Foundation, founded in 1964. An internationally renowned art center designed by Renzo Piano, it pursues a social mission: to awaken the public's creativity.

Contact

Marina Pascual - Creative Development Programs Manager - creatividad@fundacionbotin.org

Podcasts created by and for the public

"Légato, à l'écoute de l'art": creation of podcasts based on works in the collection for audiences far removed from culture, both children and adults.

The "Légato, à l'écoute de l'art" project weaves links between the contemporary art collection of former gallerist Yvon Lambert, who founded the Collection Lambert, and audiences far removed from culture, through the creation of podcasts, produced by the public themselves and broadcast in the institution's exhibition rooms. Gathered in groups, children and adults are invited to share their intimate vision of a work, using language, voice and text. Accompanied by a sound artist, they create a sound proposal that takes either abstract or narrative form. These podcasts are available in two formats. The first, shorter, is more intuitive and can be played on a mobile device; the second, more theoretical, can be listened to in sound seats. An alternative to audioguides, QR codes, labels, etc., rethinking mediation in a different, more inclusive way, "Légato is a fine participative mediation project", sums up Diane Haudiquet, in charge of young audiences. Conceived/created by students at Ecal, the École cantonale d'art de Lausanne (Switzerland), the sound devices are made by craftsmen in the Avignon region in an eco-responsible approach. These words can be taken outside the museum, to meet a different audience. Supporting contemporary creation, enhancing the visitor experience, making art accessible to all: the device combines a number of objectives and creates a concrete tool. Its method can be applied to any institution.

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Contact: Tiphanie Romain, Audience and Artists' Publishing Manager - t.romain@collectionlambert.com

Budget: €104600

Partnership: Equal Access Foundation

Young Europe IV Writers Lab & Festival

Writing and staging new repertoires in 9 European theaters by and for young people from non-dominant backgrounds

180° Community Lab

Bringing together inquisitive minds, Bulgarian youth and emerging talent with artists from around the world through the transformative power of art.

"Promoting universal access to art and well-being", Mindfulness Institute - Mindful Art, Belgium

Mindful Art ® x Tactile Reproductions is an innovative project that transcends the boundaries of art by offering a universal experience. This harmonious device is aimed at both sighted and visually impaired people, as well as art lovers and neophytes. By linking the collections of several museums through a common approach, the project integrates perfectly with the programme of the institutions and adapts to their diverse audiences.

The unique fusion of Mindful Art® meditation with tactile reproductions of works of art provides an enriching sensory exploration. Visitors discover art through touch, sound and meditation, transforming their relationship with the works. This sensitive and emotional experience, which requires no prior academic knowledge, fosters a deeper and more inclusive understanding of the world. It reminds us that humanity shares a common essence across cultural, linguistic, physical and temporal differences.

The sound capsule aims to slow visitors'pace, transforming the museum into a place of well-being, while tactile exploration encourages a more attentive presence during the visit.

The performance workshops help to raise awareness of these artistic proposals, while at the same time creating a deep commitment from participants through an enriching emotional connection.

Es Baluard Museu

"(Re)situacions" : fostering inclusion and promoting the identity of the local gypsy community by inviting 10 of its members to the museum for workshops in reflection and artistic creation.
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The project

(Re)situacions is a project involving a group of 10 gypsies cared for by Palma City Council's Reception and Emergency Unit, in a process of reflection on gypsy history, culture and identity, and in an artistic creation project, to foster their inclusion and promote the identity of the local gypsy community. The works produced will be sent to various centers on the island and/or peninsula, to be shared with other gypsy communities.

Es Baluard Museu

Es Baluard Museu is a contemporary art museum inaugurated in 2004 and located in Palma de Mallorca. Es Baluard Museu's collection comprises over 780 works dating from the late 19th century to the present day, highlighting the main artists and movements that have converged or are still converging on the Balearic Islands, in relation to the national and international artistic context.

Contact

Irene Amengual - Education Department - irene.amengual@esbaluard.org

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Reclaiming Life

Combating domestic violence through artistic action and the collective creation of a toolbox

Open Music Lab

Giving marginalized communities access to Berlin's music scene.

"Curating the Periphery", KRAK Center for Contemporary Culture, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Curating the Periphery is an informal but comprehensive project which aims to establish protocols and create tools for total engagement within which new values are formed in the socially neglected environment of the city of Bihać. Using curatorial practice with the intention of intervening in socially relevant processes, the project deals with the challenges of working in the field of contemporary culture and art in a context characterized by post-war, post-socialist and post-industrial trends. Respecting local characteristics and keeping in mind the urgency of the moment, project consciously avoids passive audiences and strives to establish and strengthen the community. It is a project which contemplates the distance between the artistic image and real life in the context of the European periphery and a marginalised environment such as Bihać. It initiates a discussion on present relevant issues in a traumatised, post-genocide society. Searching for possible answers to the questions ”how to articulate an artistic discourse on the European periphery” and ”how to motivate urban reinvention in a post-socialist and post-industrial spatial context”, the project focuses on the KRAK and its specific geography, which serves as a starting point for understanding the complex political, social and cultural layers within which it operates.

Lambert Collection

"Inspire": Welcoming CM1 - CM2 children who have dropped out of school to a micro-school set up in the heart of the museum.
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The project

The micro-school project has been tested since January 2020. It was born of a meeting between the Collection Lambert and the French Ministry of Education, in the heart of an area with a poverty rate of 31%. For the time being, it welcomes 6 children, and involves a large number of pupils in conventional schooling. Fundamental learning is concentrated in the mornings, and is based in part on works of art in the museum. Afternoons are devoted to workshops led by artists and scientists alike. In 2020/2021, for example, a project will be carried out to create and develop a 500 m2 garden, and some 216 hours of workshops are planned. The Inspire micro-school is: a pilot educational project combining the arts and sciences, a partnership with 3 elementary school and 2 secondary schools, over 160 pupils aged 8 to 15 involved from the 1st year, 4 partner cultural institutions, 9 artists in residence over 10 months, 4 artistic disciplines covered.

Lambert Collection

The Collection Lambert in Avignon is a museum of contemporary art created in 2000 on the initiative of gallery owner Yvon Lambert, who donated to the French state a collection of major works from the 2nd half of the 20th century and the early 21st century.

Contact: Tiphanie romain - Head of Audiences and Artists' Editions - t.romain@collectionlambert.com

A VR Odyssey among the treasures of the library

"Odyssée" offers the general public, mainly teenagers, the chance to discover the library's treasures, and then become prescribers, via a fun virtual reality experience.

The Bibliothèque Humaniste de Sélestat has teamed up with Paris-based interactive design agency Mosquito to use virtual reality to attract a younger audience to a library with rich heritage collections. For the first time, wearing a virtual reality headset, the public can move around a space in 6Dof (six degrees of freedom), offering total freedom of movement (you can walk, run, interact with other participants). A "hybrid of a traditional exhibition, an escape game and a virtual reality video game", this Odyssey offers a new way of discovering the museum's collections, which revolve around the collection of Beatus Rhenanus, a Selestadian humanist and friend of Erasmus, who bequeathed an exceptional library to his hometown in 1547 (his 670 works make up one of the richest collections of the Renaissance, listed in Unesco's "Memory of the World" register). The scenario? The four players must search for 4 books and one object to support the 5 stories that make up "Odyssey". The new Oculus Quest 2 headsets, equipped with 4 wide-angle cameras, make it possible to experiment with new forms of immersive storytelling."Very entertaining, very interesting. Highly recommendable, it's another way of visiting the Humanist Library and discovering its works. Absolutely worth doing again", agree the first users...

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Contact: Chloé Carré, assistant manager - chloe.carre@ville-selestat.fr

Budget: €162,000

Partnership: Mosquito, interactive design workshop

Democracy Unlimited - 'What Country, Friends, Is This?

Challenge young people aged 16 to 18 to write a play on issues of representation, participation and alienation in our democracy.

Open Camp - A new story for children in refugee camps

Empowering refugee children to tell their stories through animation and storytelling.

Fondazione Burri

"M-CASE": a sensory experience to discover contemporary artworks in a totally dark space.
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The project

The M-CASE (Museum Contemporary Art Sensorial Experience) project grew out of the successful VIBE (Voyage Inside a Blind Experience), a sensorial corridor plunged into total darkness in which sighted visitors could experience the works of Josef and Anni Albers through senses other than sight. M-CASE is an itinerant modular space that can be placed both inside and outside the museum. Completely dark, it uses tactile elements, 3D reproductions and a sound system to offer a sensory experience of contemporary art. Accompanied during their visit by visually impaired or blind mediators, visitors will experience the museum as a genuine place of encounter and integration.

Fondazione Burri

The Fondazione Burri was founded in 1978 by the artist Alberto Burri. It is divided into two monographic museums: the Palazzo Albizzini and the Ex Seccatoi del Tabacco, both in Città di Castello. It boasts the most comprehensive collection on the artist.

Contact

Giulia Grassini - Project Manager - atlanteserviziculturali@gmail.com

Cosmic movements

"Yet, it moves!" is an innovative exhibition format, connecting art and science on the subject of movement by directly engaging Copenhagen's residents through installations in public spaces.

Imagine a city where, at every street corner, you're confronted with an installation studying your movements, on a scale ranging from the micro to the macro-cosmos... Welcome to Copenhagen! Initiated by the young art center Copenhagen Contemporary (CC) and curator Irene Campolmi, this highly ambitious project combining contemporary creation and scientific research will soon be implemented in public spaces, starting in November 2022 and then in 2023. The façade of Industriens Hus, near the town hall, will be covered with words gleaned here and there from the continuous flow of the Internet and the media, as well as from books and even conversations, translated into scripts by performer Nora Turato. As for the Dronning Louises Bro bridge, one of Copenhagen's busiest bicycle lanes, it will play host to a large-scale sound installation designed by Precious Okoyomon ("RADIO TOWERS -Moving Frequencies"). This will connect "the gravitational waves that humans experience on earth as they move, and the gravitational waves that occur between other entities in the universe". A second tower is due to be installed in King's Gardens in 2023. Still in its development phase, this programme art project aims to reach out to a different audience than those who visit art centers, by engaging them in their everyday lives. "Yet, it moves" has already been awarded the Bikuben Foundation Vision Prize 2021.

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Contact:

Jannie Haagemann - Head of Exhibitions, Senior Curator - jannie@cphco.org

Irene Campolmi - Researcher and co-curator - irene@cphco.org

Budget: €1300,000 / Artistic installations: €146,000

Partnership :

DARK in the Niels Bohr Institute of Copenhagen University, Arts at CERN in Geneva, the Interactive Minds Centre of Aarhus University, and the performance studies programme of the University of California, Davis, ModLab (DigitalHumanities Laboratory).

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An audio book for toddlers

An audio book for children aged 0 to 3 based on the museum's collections

Contemporary poetry sound fund

Discover contemporary poetry in a sound bubble accessible to the general public and the visually impaired and blind.

"The Significance of Art at Work", Kunst På Arbejde, Denmark

KPA addresses a societal need that many museums and cultural institutions invest significant resources in reaching non-users. We engage people at their workplaces, creating encounters with art in everyday work environments and non-museum settings. With the project ”The Significance of Art at Work,” we aim to enable even more people to encounter art in their workplace - enhancing these encounters with specific interaction tools and bridging the gap between workplaces and artists. The project involves the development of a conversation kit, educational materials, and bridge-building events between the workplace and the art world. This initiative benefits society by enhancing cultural education, benefiting museums and art halls by expanding their audience base, improving workplace well-being, and fostering a more sustainable art scene that ensures broader access to the art world for citizens who might otherwise be excluded due to structural, economic, or cultural reasons. The project will benefit many parties and have a range of positive effects at multiple levels: More people will enjoy and benefit from art - strengthening their relationship, interaction, and experience with art - and thereby gaining access to cultural education. Research shows that when people have good cultural capital, they do better in many other aspects of life.

Fræme

"Mission Musée": an online game to discover contemporary art, but also the jobs and workings of a museum.
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The project

The Mission Musée project is designed for children aged 9 to 12, and to support teachers in the school context. It is designed to fit in with school curricula. Pupils are tasked with taking charge of a corpus of works rescued from the waters and finding them a new home in a series of game stages: unlocking the museum database, putting the inventory of works in order, creating technical sheets for hanging them, creating thematic corpuses of works, organizing their transport, and much more...! Through some twenty mini-games and workshops, students discover the variety and richness of contemporary works of art, the professions of the art world, and the sensitive and scientific vocabulary used to understand them.

Fræme

Based at Marseille's Friche la Belle de Mai, the Fræme association presents exhibitions and develops projects and tools for the mediation of contemporary art.

Contact

Magali Delrieu - Audience Manager - md@fraeme.art

All about the museum behind the scenes...

"Behind-the-scenes of creation to awaken vocations": create audio and video content to give all audiences a behind-the-scenes look at the museum's various trades.

How does a museum work? What do we do there? This is the ambitious project of the Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon (macLYON): to present a behind-the-scenes look at a museum of contemporary art, the people involved and the different professions that coexist within it. Every time we've published content on the museum's professions on social networks, it's received rave reviews, and people keep asking for more," says Muriel Jaby, head of the communications department. In light of this growing curiosity about these subjects, the museum intends to promote a better understanding of how it works. Launched in June 2021 following the confinements, the first series of podcasts revealed the reserves, showed how an exhibition is hung and dismantled, not forgetting its vernissage, the restoration of a contemporary work, a visit to an artist's studio, a pre-exhibition work meeting, the preparation of an exhibition catalog, not forgetting the anecdotes, "the lettering that doesn't stick or the cab that doesn't arrive". macLYON had already launched a series of videos, Paroles d'artistes, which it hopes to perpetuate and improve by subtitling or dubbing them in LSF to make them accessible to all. "Create new tools with a professionalizing dimension. And strengthen attachment to the structure. It's an aspect of our relationship with the public that we feel very strongly about, and we're going to continue in this direction!" announces Muriel Jaby. To go even further, invest all fields and media, reach a different audience and rely on educational relays, the ambition is to gather this content in a MOOC.

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Contact: Muriel Jaby, Head of Communications - muriel.jaby@mairie-lyon.fr

Budget: €78500

Partnership: DYLM, La Matmut, AC/RA; Documents d'artistes; Omnia Culture

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Projekt encounter commissions

Telling the personal stories of migrant communities by transforming their stories into plays.

Altofest - International Contemporary Live Art

Bringing art into the homes of Neapolitans by transforming houses into artistic residences and performance spaces.

"Objective: Independent Lives", Concomitentes, Spain

The project will promote independent living for individuals with diverse abilities through artistic participation. Aligning with institutional shifts towards inclusion and autonomy, participatory art acts as a catalyst for transforming the role of people with special needs. Located in Barbanza, region in Galicia, Spain, with over 65,000 inhabitants, the project partners with Asociación Ambar, which works with approximately 1,100 diverse individuals. We apply New Patrons’ established methodology: an expert mediator, Natalia Balseiro, will facilitate the participatory process, involving individuals with special needs and a broader local critical mass. The creative dynamic spans a year and a half, including at least 100 participants across a minimum of 20 participatory sessions aimed at unraveling shared concerns. Eventually, a suitable artist will be appointed to create artwork responding to community demands. Learnings will be shared with similar communities and entities, through (1) a toolkit, (2) two “Art & Diversity” forums: “Local contexts, diverse-abilities and cultural work” (local, onsite) and “Crip theory and European experiences” (international, online). The process, as a source of ideas, community cohesion, and artistic perspectives, and the resulting work (i.e.: performance, installation, digital art), as a materialization of these elements and legacy for the future, are equally transcendent.

IMA / MAHJ

"Mallette pédagogique " Culture(s) en partage " " : A digital tool to encourage dialogue through the arts by bringing together works from the 2 museums.
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The project

A digital teaching kit is available for teachers and educators. It features 10 pairs of works from the collections of the 2 museums, on common themes, providing a concrete understanding of the close cultural ties between Jews and Muslims in Arab countries.

IMA / MAHJ

The Institut du Monde Arabe is a multi-disciplinary space where cultural projects are developed, often in collaboration with institutions, creators and thinkers from the Arab world. The Musée d'art et d'histoire du Judaïsme preserves, studies, disseminates and promotes museum collections relating to Jewish art and history. The two institutions have been working together for several years as part of the programme "Culture(s) en partage" program.

Contact

IMA: Imane Mostefaï Miquel - Director of Education and Mediation - imostefai@imarabe.org

MAHJ: Raffaella Russo-Ricci - Head of Education Department - rafaella.ricci@mahj.org

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"KORAL", Arts Convergences, France

KORAL is an application that converts the smartphone into a musical instrument for discovering, playing and creating in a group. Thanks to research at IRCAM and with the help of AI, simple, customisable gestures activate musical sounds and patterns without ‘false note’, for an intuitive relationship with musical creation and a (re)discovery of repertoires.

Developed for and by people with disabilities (psychological, mental or motor), the application brings the virtues of music to all, breaking down the barriers of acquisition and learning. KORAL has been designed in response to the needs and financial constraints of medical and social structures, and offers an innovative, simple, fun and free tool to facilitate the organisation of group musical discovery and creation workshops.

After a phase of validating the benefits of KORAL, tested with around a hundred participants in the first workshops held in the Paris region, the project is now focusing on rolling out the solution nationwide. The dissemination methodology is designed to be collaborative and progressive, and is based on 4 principles : spreading the word, sharing resources, individualised support and networking people with complementary skills.

La Caixa

"Symphony": an immersive virtual reality experience to discover classical music.
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The project

Symphony is an immersive touring experience. 2 trucks travel from town to town, using virtual reality headsets to allow visitors to step into the shoes of a symphony orchestra musician for a few moments, plunge inside a musical instrument or enjoy a sensory experience in contact with sound. Under the artistic direction of Igor Cortadellas, the musical direction of Gustavo Dudamel and with the musicians of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, this touring project offers visitors a truly immersive experience, punctuated by the compositions of Beethoven, Mahler and Bernstein.

La Caixa

The Fundación "la Caixa" is a non-profit organization of general interest, whose principal missions are the promotion and development of social, charitable, humanitarian, research, educational and cultural works. The foundation's activities are centred on one main objective: to build a better, more united and fairer world.

Contact

Nuria Oller Castells - Music Department Manager - noller@fundaciolacaixa.org

"Libraries on Prescription", Comicdom Press, Greece

Athens Comics Library has initiated the first social prescribing programme in Greece: “Libraries on Prescription”. The aim of the programme is to include more than 30 libraries and 200 library and psychosocial support professionals in Greece over a period of 24 months, and is a cross-sectoral collaboration of libraries, health professionals and cultural activities to improve mental health and well-being through culture. With the programme, Athens Comics Library aims to connect the health and creative sector through a collaborative approach in order to design a system that is more collaborative, open, innovative and people-centred and remove stigma around mental health particularly in rural and vulnerable communities. In this respect, they aim to define a social prescribing program for people who have long-term health problems, complex social needs, and mental health challenges.

"FilmSight, Osvěta z.s., Czech Republic

Filmsight is a workshop for young people who are blind or visually impaired to develop their skills in the art of film making. In hands-on workshops in Europe. Participants will learn the approach of Assisted Filmmaking from a professional filmmaker and use it to realize their own film ideas. The short films that are produced will be screened in art and education venues, creating an opportunity for all to share their visions with a wider audience in Europe. All workshops will be reproducible and can later be conducted by the participants on their own.

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mumok

"Mumok Digital Learning" : introducing children to art and computing, through coding workshops based on museum works.
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The project

Mumok digital learning enables children and young people to discover modern art in an innovative, digital way. After a visit to the museum, participants have access to workshops that combine modern art with a creative computer programme . Using a computer, participants can use code to represent their perception of the works, integrating images, music and text. Learning about the arts and new technologies encourages children to develop their creativity, their taste for art and their knowledge. The mumok's application to Award aims to open these workshops to all young visitors, and to make them free of charge.

mumok

The Mumok- Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig- is the largest art museum in Austria since the 20th century. It offers all those interested in the arts the chance to discover different aspects of the international and Austrian avant-garde.

Contact

Stephanie Fischer - Art Education Department- stephaniefischier@mumok.at

"Hear My Voice, London Bubble Theatre, United Kingdom

‘Hear My Voice’ is a cyclical sharing of stories, building an international community of artists.  

It extends the reach and impact of the hybrid performance: ‘Ay Kash / کاش ای / If Only’, created by Cosmino Productions a collective of eleven young women aged between 15 – 23 living in Afghanistan under Taliban rule.  

London Bubble will bring Cosmino Productions from Berlin to London for a series of performances of 'If Only' to inspire other groups of women who have experienced disempowerment.  

They will be invited to taster workshops to share their stories and explore their creative identities.

MUNCH Museum

"Munch Munch": a creative and fun mobile app for young audiences.
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The project

Munch Munch is a creative and fun mobile application for Norwegian schoolchildren aged 9 to 11. It offers three stages: a discovery of Edvard Munch's work and work on emotions, a drawing workshop inspired by his works, and the transposition of this drawing into space in augmented reality. Children will be able to visualize and interact with works created by other students.

MUNCH Museum

The MUNCH Museum in Oslo is dedicated to the work and life of the artist Edvard Munch. It brings together 1,100 paintings, 7,000 drawings and 18,000 prints by the artist. In 2021, the museum will reopen in a new, custom-designed building along Oslo's waterfront.

Contact

Gerd-Elise Morland - Apprenticeship Manager - gem@munchmuseet.no

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Lyon Museum of Fine Arts

"Eyes and voice": audio capsules read and recorded by school dropouts to enable visually impaired and blind people to discover 10 museum works.
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The project

The project brings together the cultural and social enterprise Ce Que Mes Yeux Ont Vu, associations and the museum in a collaborative venture. Young people in difficulty or dropping out of school will be invited to record audio descriptions of 10 works in the museum, written by Ce Que Mes Yeux Ont Vu, but they will also be invited to record more personal texts they have written themselves during writing workshops. Recordings will be made in the museum, in front of the works, with the help of an actor. These recordings will be made available to the visually impaired and blind.

Lyon Museum of Fine Arts

The Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lyon, a municipal institution of the City of Lyon, presents collections spanning more than 4,000 years of art history, from ancient Egypt to the 21st century.

Contact

Delphine Rabin - Cultural Service Manager - delphine.rabin@mairie-lyon.fr

National Museum of Military History

"Art M Back": a virtual reality app that combines sightseeing and creativity.
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The project

Art M Back is a pilot project that combines a traditional museum visit with the visitor's own creativity. Equipped with a virtual reality headset, visitors wander through the corridors of a virtual space featuring the museum's collections. The visitor chooses a work or object, which is presented in detail. After learning all about it, he or she unlocks a "toolbox" containing all the materials that make up the work or object, and is invited to virtually re-create a work. This project is said to be one of the first virtual reality offerings in a Bulgarian museum.

National Museum of Military History

The National Museum of Military History in Sofia is one of Bulgaria's oldest and most visited heritage institutions. Its collections include weapons, paintings, uniforms, decorations and emblems, as well as a large number of motorized aircraft, helicopters, tanks and other land vehicles.

Contact

Valeria Bineva - Senior expert for international activities - nvim.bg@gmail.com

Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

"Musée emportable": a digital, offbeat experience of discovering the museum in the company of drawings by Zep, the famous French comic strip author.
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The project

Le Musée emportable was born of a meeting with the Blouses Roses association, which works with hospitalized children and people in care to bring joy to a daily life of loneliness and difficulty. Twenty or so episodes will enable visitors to discover a history of humorous art, drawn by comic book artist Zep, through the intermediary of a virtual reality headset or a more conventional projection system, depending on the venue and audience concerned. Human mediation and hands-on workshops will be offered to complement this virtual tour, wherever possible.

Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille

The Palais des beaux-arts de Lille is a museum with a 19th century palatial architecture and an encyclopedic collection spanning Flanders (Rubens, Van Dyck), Spain (Goya), Italy (Donatello, Raphaël) and France (Delacroix, Monet, Rodin). Highly committed to winning over new audiences, in 2014 he launched programme Open Museum: an invitation to an unexpected and famous artistic personality to establish a new dialogue with the museum's works and spaces.

Contact

Florence Raymond - Heritage conservation officer - fraymond@mairie-lille.fr

Paris Museums

"Paris Musées MOOC Sculpture": online courses offering a panorama of the history of sculpture through the 14 museums and heritage sites of the City of Paris.
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The project

This first MOOC (Massive Online Open Courses) experience for Paris will enable visitors to discover all the facets of its rich sculpture collection, from the diversity of materials, origins and periods, to the social, ornamental or commemorative function of the works. Original videos and specific mediation tools (interactive timeline, map of sculptures in Paris...) will be offered, as well as a final certification.

Paris Museums

Paris Musées is a local public institution responsible for managing the 12 museums and 2 heritage sites of the City of Paris (Petit Palais, Musée d'Art Moderne, Catacombes, Palais Galliera, Maisons de Victor Hugo, Musée Bourdelle, Musée Carnavalet, etc.). It contributes to their national and international influence, and reinforces their mission as leading cultural facilities serving citizens and visitors alike. The collections at the 14 sites reflect the cultural diversity of the French capital and its rich history (fine art, modern art, decorative arts, Asian art, history, literature, fashion, etc.).

Contact

Scarlett Greco - Digital Manager - scarlett.greco@paris.fr

RMN-Grand Palais

"Hyperexpo": a free app to create your own exhibition from the 500,000 images of works held by the Réunion des Musées Nationaux.
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The project

With this in mind, the RMN-Grand Palais and multimedia artist Pierre GINER are proposing HYPER EXPO, a free application available in English and French, on computer or telephone. It will enable users to create their own exhibition with the works of their choice from a photo library of 500,000 images, placing them on the walls of an imaginary 3D space and then visiting the exhibition with an avatar.

RMN-Grand Palais

Réunion des musées nationaux-Grand Palais is a European cultural operator whose mission is to promote access to culture throughout France. It brings together a wealth of expertise, enabling it to take a cross-disciplinary approach to the challenges and needs of museums. RMN-Grand Palais possesses a range of recognized expertise in the artistic and cultural fields: exhibition organization, visitor reception, mediation, publishing, management of museum stores, art workshops, photographic agency, acquisition of works of art for national collections, cultural engineering, etc. These skills enable it to play a singular role on the museum scene, with one ambition: to encourage the greatest number of people to encounter art - art from all cultures, of all periods and in all its forms.

Contact

Roei Amit - Digital and multimedia manager - roei.amit@rmngp.fr

Southbank Centre

"Art By Post": once a month, a creative booklet designed by an artist and sent to isolated people by post or e-mail.
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The project

Born during the first confinement in spring 2020, Art by Post sends free monthly booklets of creative activities (drawings, poetry...) by professional artists to the most isolated people. The activities are designed for anyone with a physical or mental health problem. The aim is to help people feel connected to others and contribute to improving their mental health and well-being. The booklets include stamped envelopes that encourage participants to send their creative works back to the Southbank Centre for a touring exhibition for summer 2021. Over 4,500 participants from across the UK have taken part in the project to date. Southbank Centre has recently established partnerships with a range of regional charities and arts organizations to develop a national "community" around the project.

Southbank Centre

The Southbank Centre is the UK's largest multi-arts center, comprising three historic venues (Royal Festival Hall, Queen Elizabeth Hall, The Hayward Gallery). Each year, it organizes over 5,000 events covering a wide range of art forms, including the visual arts, contemporary and classical music, performance, comedy and dance. 50% of these events are free to the public. The Southbank Centre also runs a wide range of education and outreach projects around its programme to ensure maximum social benefit from its cultural and creative activities.

Contact

Jessica Santer - Head of arts education - jessica.santer@southbankcentre.co.uk

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Stadtmuseum Aarau

"games@museums": Three digital game prototypes designed for museums.
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The project

Games@museums is a project initiated by Engagement Migros of digital games for museums created in collaboration with students from the Zurich University of the Arts and the Geneva University of Art and Design. Three prototype games have been developed: "Meurtre au musée" (Murder in the Museum): the visitor leads the investigation to find the killer of a work of art; "Art Lover": a chatbot that allows works of art to flirt with visitors; and "Alchemy": an object hunt that triggers the telling of a legend. These games can be adapted to the needs of museums, and will soon be available to all interested museums.

Stadtmuseum Aarau

The Stadtmuseum Aarau is a museum located in Aarau, Switzerland. It conveys the history of the city and explores contemporary social issues. Photography and digital imaging are the focus of exhibitions, events and collaborations.

Contact:

Laura Schuppli - Project Manager - laura@spielkultur.ch

Tate

"Digital Audio Description Library" : a digital audio description library to make 25 works in the collection accessible to blind and visually impaired audiences.
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The project

Digital Audio Library is a digital audio library project aimed at visually impaired, blind, hearing-impaired and wider audiences. The library brings together 25 films: the works described are chosen for the links they make with highly topical social issues.

Tate

Tate is a British organization with 4 galleries in London, Liverpool and St.Ives. It is responsible for exhibiting the national collection of British art, which comprises over 70,000 works, as well as the national collections of modern and contemporary art.

Van Gogh Museum

"A new view on Van Gogh" : a virtual reality (re)discovery of Vincent Van Gogh's works for seniors in retirement homes.
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The project

A new view on Van Gogh offers virtual reality workshops on the works of Vincent Van Gogh for senior citizens in retirement homes. Equipped with a virtual reality headset, participants can visit the museum and zoom in on their favorite works. The workshops, led by a museum expert or specially trained young students, will initiate intergenerational relations.

Van Gogh Museum

The Van Gogh Museum houses the world's largest collection of works by Vincent van Gogh: 205 paintings, 500 drawings and over 800 letters. Its mission is to make the life and work of Vincent van Gogh, and the art of his time, accessible to as many people as possible.

Contact

Marijke Naber - Development Director - m.naber@vangoghmuseum.nl

Versailles

"Versailles VR": a virtual exploration of the famous Château offered to hospitalized patients.
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The project

Versailles has teamed up with Google Arts & Culture in 2019 to launch a virtual reality app offering a never-before-seen, interactive exploration of the Château's iconic locations, with a high level of detail. The aim today is to distribute this application to patients and their families in 8 hospitals of the Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, setting up for 1 month in each hospital and offering human accompaniment for the use of virtual reality headsets, while respecting barrier gestures.

Versailles

The Etablissement Public de Versailles comprises the Châteaux of Versailles and Trianon, the gardens and park, the Domaine de Marly, the Salle du Jeu de Paume, the Musée des Carrosses and the Galerie des Moulages. Each year, it presents exhibitions, carries out restorations, and pursues its policy of attracting a wide range of visitors.

Contact

Paul Chaine - Digital manager - paul.chaine@chateauversailles.fr