GOLD

From April 25th to September 10th, 2018  
A very special art piece has come from the Zadkine Museum in Paris.
In the 1920s, the Russian-born artist, Zadkine collaborated with many interior designers. For example, Marc de Nicolas du Plantier acquired several of Zadkine's works at the beginning of the 1930s which were placed in the apartments that he decorated. Amongst these works was the Golden Bird, painted plaster with gold leaf gilding, which today can be seen in the GOLD exhibition at the Mucem.

Throughout the exhibition, discover a special creation by gethan&myles 
The artist pair tells the story of the jewelry they bought from the Crédit Municipal de Marseille (Mont de Piété). 
They set out to find the original owners of the jewelry, and when they did, listened to and recorded their personal stories and the importance that these objects had had in their family life. Then the artists returned the jewelry to these original owners. The jewels are displayed at the Mucem in an ephemeral installation that winds through the entire Gold exhibition. 

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AI WEIWEI, FAN TAN

It's a family connection that brought the celebrated Chinese artist to Marseille, where he traced his father's footsteps of 1929. “My show comes from a bit of nostalgia about my father," explains the artist. In this show, Ai Weiwei unveils new commissions alongside 50 works.
The artist and the Mucem share one common critical preoccupation: the observation of the everyday.

European Partners of the Mucem

The Mucem is at the forefront of research on the role of ethnographic museums in our changing European society. In this section, we would like to show you the way two other European museums, partners of the Mucem in the SWICH program, have worked on this theme.
 

The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge houses important collections from the Pacific, including one of the largest collections of objects from the voyages of Captain James Cook. It also has the largest collection of Fijian artefacts outside Fiji itself. Its collections of world prehistory, particularly from the Paleolithic period, are uniquely comprehensive. Many of the MAA's objects center around the themes of birth, death, sex and feasting, such as the Mexican Day of the Dead figures in the image above.

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SWICH PROJECT

THE SWICH  CONFERENCE July 11th to 13th in Cambridge

This conference builds on the five-year Creative Europe project, Sharing a World of Inclusion, Creativity and Heritage. SWICH has connected museums of ethnography and world cultures across ten European partner museums .They reflect current issues concerning the role of ethnographic museums within an increasingly differentiated European society. A network embracing museum curators and other staff, researchers, artists, activists and community representatives has reflected on what ethnographic museums do and can do, in increasingly conflicted European societies.

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THE WORLD FEDERATION OF FRIENDS OF MUSEUMS

From May 10 to 13 in Madeira, The Friends of Mucem took part in the General Assembly of the World Federation of Friends of Museums (WFFM) with thirteen other countries, thanks to the outstanding organization of the Portuguese Federation.

It was the right place to exchange information, views, and experiences among Friends of museums. Notably, the Young Friends held several fruitful workshops to trigger different ways of thinking about the work they do in their associations and to promote Young Friends around the world.

We very warmly welcomed the election of the new President, Carolyn Forster from Australia, and the new executive committee for three years, and we’ll actively support their efforts to share our common values and to foster international cooperation among worldwide associations for the benefit of museums and the public.
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