This Saturday, May 18, 2024, the Institut du Monde Arabe in Paris is taking part in the 20th Nuit des Musées, opening exceptionally at night. Discover the program for this new edition!
The Nuit des Musées is an opportunity to discover many museums and monuments that you might not know, or to rediscover places you thought you knew like the back of your hand. During the evening, many temples of culture open their doors to us, free of charge, to showcase their collections and riches. TheInstitut du Monde Arabe is no exception to the rule, inviting us to discover its treasures and program this Saturday, May 18, 2024.
Inside theInstitut du Monde Arabe, visitors can wander through the museum's permanent collections, learning more about the history and cultures of Arab countries. In less than 40 years, the museum, which opened in 1987, has become a key venue for gaining a better understanding of the Arab language and culture, thanks to its educational and topical exhibitions. This multi-disciplinary venue puts the spotlight on artists from the Arab world, and creates a cultural bridge between Europe, France and the Arab world.
The IMA invites you to experience a special evening on May 18, 2024, for the 20th edition of the Nuit des Musées. It's a chance to take in the latest news free of charge, and to spend a wonderful evening under the banner of culture!
The Nuit des Musées 2024 program at the Institut du Monde Arabe :
- Arab World Institute Museum
Free admission subject to availability. Reservations highly recommended
Levels 7, 6 and 4 (access via level 7)
The IMA museum invites visitors to discover the Arab world, beyond preconceived ideas, by presenting the full diversity of its cultures, ethnic groups, languages and faiths, from its origins to the present day.
- Museum exhibition: Baghdad: Rediscovering Madinat al-Salam, with Assassin's Creed® Mirage
Museum (level 5, access via level 7)
The "Baghdad: Rediscovering Madinat al-Salam, with Assassin's Creed Mirage" exhibition sheds light on a captivating historical period, an essential geographical area and a brilliant civilization. Thanks to numerous objects from the Abbasid era, set against the backdrops imagined by the teams behind Assassin's Creed Mirage, the latest in Ubisoft's video game series, the exhibition reveals the splendor of a world-city in its golden age.
- The class, the work! Cellular Portraits "All the same, all different"
Museum (level 6, access via level 7)
18h
As part of the national "La classe, l'œuvre!" operation, projects are developed during the school year for presentation on European Museum Night. This year, the IMA has partnered with the Jean-Macé secondary school in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois (Essonne) to carry out a project combining art and science: "Portraits cellulaires. All the same, all different". The students were accompanied for several sessions at the IMA and in class by artists Laurence & Graffensttaden. These sessions culminated in the creation of a collective work featuring their cellular portraits, which will be unveiled to the public and presented by the students at the IMA museum at 6pm.
- ARABOFUTURS - Science fiction and new imaginaries
Exhibition rooms (levels -1 and -2)
Videographers, visual artists, photographers, performers...: Arab and diaspora artists are seizing on anticipation and science fiction to question and transgress today's societies and dream of tomorrow's worlds. To introduce visitors to this marvellous and dynamic laboratory of hypotheses, the contemporary art exhibition ARABOFUTURS brings together works by 17 of these artists and as many experiences, testimonies and views of the world.
- Étienne Dinet, Algerian passions
Espace des Donateurs (level -2)
Algerian by adoption, Étienne Dinet (1861-1929) is one of the few Orientalist painters to have escaped the reproach of exoticism and the trial of the colonial gaze. The IMA invites you to (re)discover his work, which has become one of the visual identities of post-independence Algeria - national historiography has gone so far as to make him a figure of nascent nationalism, which he was not - and to read in it the passion he nourished for a country whose land, faith and cause he espoused.
A wonderful program highlighting artists from the Arab world, and allowing us to (re)see the museum's temporary exhibitions from a new angle. In short, a not-to-be-missed event during this Nuit des Musées! So, shall we go?
