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Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilisations

Field	Value
name	Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations
native_name	Musée des Civilizations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée
native_name_lang	fr
image	"Beeindruckende Architektur". 5.jpg
caption	Exterior of the Mucem
logo	New_Logo_Mucem.jpg
logo_caption	Mucem logo
alt	Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée
map_type	France Marseille#France
map_caption	Location in Marseille
map_size	250
coordinates
established
location	Marseille, France
type	National museum of ethnology
architect	Rudy Ricciotti and Roland Carta
president	Jean-François Chougnet
owner	Government of France
website

The Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (Mucem; French: Musée des Civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée; ) 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. In 2015, it won the Council of Europe Museum Prize.

Between 2013 and 2016, the Mucem welcomed 8.5 million visitors, including 2.2 million in its exhibition spaces. The museum is therefore presented as a tool for the attractiveness of the territory of the metropolis of Aix-Marseille-Provence.

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, 130 m 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", was designed by the architect Rudy Ricciotti in collaboration with the architect Roland Carta. A cube of 15,000 m2 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.

Galerie

File:Mucem Marseille 02.jpg File: Fort Saint-Jean&Musée des civilisations de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée.jpg File:Mucem Marseille 03.jpg

References

(2013-06-06). "Ouverture au public du MuCEM, la nouvelle muse de Marseille".
[http://www.france24.com/en/20130604-marseille’-mucem-offers-bridge-between-mediterranean-europe?ns_campaign=nl_quot_en&ns_source=NLQ_20130605&ns_mchannel=email_marketing&ns_fee=0&ns_linkname=20130604_marseille’_mucem_offers_bridge_between_mediterranean&f24_member_id=10118442208 Report in ''France 24'', 4 June 2013, accessed 4 June 2013]
(2019). "WINNER: COUNCIL OF EUROPE MUSEUM PRIZE".
rédaction, La. (2018-01-09). "Le Mucem enregistre plus de 1,2 million de visiteurs en 2017".
(2016-05-12). "Le Mucem, une forte attractivité touristique".
"J4". Mucem.org.
Daum, Pierre. "Abd el Kader au Mucem : une vision coloniale de l'Émir".

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