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 2024 tour

"Être Vivants" from February 5 to May 18

© Adagp, Paris, 2024 Photo credit: Cecilia Laulanne - Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI /Dist. RMN-GP

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)

The 2023 tour

"Music! Musique!" from March 20 to June 17

Adagp, Paris 2023 - Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI/Philippe Migeat/Dist. RMN-GP

‍"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

Sandy Skoglund, Fox Games; 1989 @ Sandy Skoglund. Photo credit: Centre Pompidou MNAM-CCI/Philippe Migeat/Dist. RMN-GP

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)
The Caravane du bizarre makes a stop in Marseille

The 2022 tour

"Les animaux sortent de leur réserve" from June 25 to September 3

Matthieu Salvaing

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

Léa Guintrand

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