Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations
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Musée des Civilizations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée | |
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| Location | Marseille, France |
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| Type | National museum of ethnology |
| PresidentTemplate:Pluralize from text | Jean-François Chougnet |
| ArchitectTemplate:Pluralize from text | Rudy Ricciotti and Roland Carta |
| OwnerTemplate:Pluralize from text | Government of France |
| Website | mucem |
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The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (Mucem;[1] French: Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée; Template:Langx) is a national museum located in Marseille, France. It was inaugurated on 7 June 2013 as part of Marseille-Provence 2013, a year when Marseille was designated as the European Capital of Culture.[2] In 2015, it won the Council of Europe Museum Prize.[3]
Between 2013 and 2016, the Mucem welcomed 8.5 million visitors, including 2.2 million in its exhibition spaces.[4] The museum is therefore presented as a tool for the attractiveness of the territory of the metropolis of Aix-Marseille-Provence.[5]
Overview
The museum is devoted to European and Mediterranean civilisations. With a permanent collection charting historical and cultural cross-fertilisation in the Mediterranean basin, it takes an interdisciplinary approach to society through the ages up to modern times.
The museum is built on reclaimed land at the entrance to the harbour, next to the site of the 17th-century Fort Saint-Jean and a former port terminal called the J4. A channel separates the new building and the Fort Saint-Jean, which has been restructured as part of the project. The two sites are linked by a high footbridge, Template:Cvt long. Another footbridge links the Fort Saint-Jean to the Esplanade de la Tourette, near the church of St Laurent in the Panier quarter.
The museum, built "of stone, water and wind",[6] was designed by the architect Rudy Ricciotti in collaboration with the architect Roland Carta. A cube of 15,000 square metres (160,000 sq ft) surrounded by a latticework shell of fibre-reinforced concrete, it houses exhibits on two levels, with an underground auditorium seating 400. The permanent collection and bookshop are situated on the ground floor. There is a restaurant on the terrace at the top of the building with panoramic views of the bay of Marseille, the Corniche and the Prado.
The exhibition devoted in 2022 to the Emir Abdelkader makes it possible to address, for example, issues of history and memory of a great figure in the Mediterranean.[7]
Galerie
See also
- Musée national des Arts et Traditions Populaires (France)
- Luigi Monzo: Marseille Beyond the Icon: MuCEM and the Mediterranean Metropolis. https://luigimonzo.com/2025/07/05/marseille-beyond-the-icon-mucem-and-the-mediterranean-metropolis/
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Ouverture au public du MuCEM, la nouvelle muse de Marseille". RFI (in français). 2013-06-06. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
- ^ Report in France 24, 4 June 2013, accessed 4 June 2013
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."WINNER: COUNCIL OF EUROPE MUSEUM PRIZE". European Museum Forum. 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.rédaction, La (2018-01-09). "Le Mucem enregistre plus de 1,2 million de visiteurs en 2017". Made in Marseille (in français). Retrieved 2023-05-08.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Le Mucem, une forte attractivité touristique". www.20minutes.fr (in français). 2016-05-12. Retrieved 2023-05-08.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."J4". Mucem.org. Retrieved July 20, 2016.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Daum, Pierre. "Abd el Kader au Mucem : une vision coloniale de l'Émir". Mediapart (in français). Retrieved 2023-05-08.
External links
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