Every year, the Nuit des Musées attracts the curious and the passionate for an event synonymous with good deals and beautiful cultural discoveries. This year, the event, which takes place all over Europe, will be held on Saturday May 18, 2025, for a new edition that promises exceptional nocturnes, free visits and unusual activities including concerts, creative workshops, performances and other surprises.
For the occasion, museums, monuments, castles and institutions are getting in on the act, unveiling their programs one by one. As you'd expect, this 20th edition of the Festival in Paris and the Île-de-France region promises to be packed with events, to the delight of Parisians both young and old.
While Paris is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, the rest of the region is well worth a visit. In fact, why not take advantage of this latest edition to discover more about the heritage of Seine-et-Marne? The 77 département has many treasures to offer, some of them little-known. In Saint-Cyr-sur-Morin, you can learn more about its history at the Musée départemental de la Seine-et-Marne, housed in a former hotel-restaurant built of millstone. And it's just the thing, as this museum is taking part in the latest edition of the Nuit des Musées!
To mark European Museum Night, the Musée Départemental de la Seine-et-Marne invites you to discover its new temporary exhibition: "Paris Olympiques: 1900,1924,2024".
Every four years since 1896, the sporting world has lived to the rhythm of the Olympic Games in a city that, for a few weeks, becomes the world's most media-savvy city. The Games have a special flavour. Athletes from every nation compete in them, and everyone has dreamed of taking part and, with ambitions both hidden and open, setting records.
From July 26 to August 15, and then from August 28 to September 8, 2024, Paris and other French cities will host the XXXIII Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games. From a religious practice celebrating Zeus, the king of the gods, the Games have metamorphosed to become the arena of competition, individual and collective performance, and the economic exploitation of spectator sport. The Games are a total event, as they are strongly marked by human, cultural, economic and political resonances. At once local and national, they have a planetary impact
Paris, the symbolic city where Pierre de Coubertin announced the re-establishment of the Olympic Games, is one of the flagship cities of the Olympic spirit. The French capital hosted the Games twice: in 1900 and 1924.
The exhibition will reveal the many facets of the Olympic phenomenon. It will tell the passionate story of a sporting adventure and the spirit of a world city. It will showcase personalities, leaders, able-bodied and disabled athletes, objects, trophies, medals, outfits, artistic representations, paintings, posters and drawings, all of which contribute to the attachment and durability of the Olympic spirit.
This tour will be divided into three sequences, each one punctuated by a different edition:
1900: the Universal,
1924: the Sport-Spectacle
2024: the Global.
For European Museum Night, the Musée Départemental de la Seine-et-Marne is opening the doors of its educational garden for a sound discovery of nature... Several sound installations will be set up in the garden. Discover vegetable plants grown according to the principles of permaculture, and let yourself be carried away by a sound experience as you explore the various installations. Free for all.
Storyteller Caroline Matteï invites you to discover a selection of Inuit tales, accompanied by musician Christophe Nédélec, who plays gongs and Tibetan bowls for an exceptional vibratory show. "Entre les Mondes" is an original, innovative show. It offers an intense emotional and sensory experience at the heart of Inuit shamanism. "Entre les Mondes" is a timeless journey that will not leave you indifferent. An experience that plunges us into the heart of an unprecedented journey.
Dates and Opening Time
On May 18th, 2024
Location
Museum of Seine-et-Marne
17 Avenue de la Ferté sous Jouarre
77750 Saint Cyr sur Morin
Official website
www.musee-seine-et-marne.fr
