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Inalco and the Louvre: a partnership for the future
Inalco and the Musée du Louvre begin their collaboration through various student cultural mediation projects. These first projects will take place at the museum during the 18th edition of the Nuit des musées.
On May 14, 2022, Inalco students will offer you a fresh look at the "objects from elsewhere" in the Louvre's Petite Galerie, with an original on-site presentation of the works, as part of their cultural mediation mission.
Background painting: Ulysses recognizing Achilles among the daughters of Lycomedes, Workshop of Frans II Francken RF 1535 © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre)/Hervé Lewandowsk - Cup: Mounted Nautilus, Ulrich Ment OA 12205 © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre)/Jean-Gilles Berizzi - Vase: Pair of ewers MR 38 084 MR 38 085 © RMN - Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre)/Martine Beck-Coppola - Statuette: Peddler MR 380 33 © RMN - Grand Palais (Musée du Louvre)/Jean-Gilles Berizzi - Elephant: Elephant (the Suleyman elephant) R 3405 © RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre)/Stéphane Maréchalle
This partnership is the fruit of joint efforts between young people and museum professionals. It crystallizes an artistic and educational vision shared by two players on the cultural scene. On the one hand, the Louvre Museum and its professionals, and on the other, Inalco and its students. The project stems both from the Louvre's desire to diversify its sources of mediation and from Inalco's desire to provide students with personal cultural enrichment and open up new professional horizons (cultural mediation, project management, communication, etc.). It is part of the student's artistic and cultural education pathway (PEAC), a 2015 program set up by the government to "promote equal access to art and culture for all young people". In this case, it's a winning, forward-looking contract that boosts the institute's educational proposition by demonstrating its versatility on the cultural and scientific fronts.
At Inalco, it's the institute's Service de l'événementiel et des actions culturelles (SEAC) that, with the support of Pr. Tatiana Bottineau, in charge of educational collaborations with museums, acted as coordinator, proposing the project to teacher-researchers Mylène Hardy and Andras Kanyadi. Their students respectively come from a class in the Communication et Formations Interculturelles (CFI) stream, as well as a class in comparative literature course Literatures, Arts and Translations in the Hungarian department. They will be inaugurating this enriching partnership. It's a long-term project, but the event that marks its launch is just around the corner: the 18th Museum Night, on May 14, 2022.
On this exceptional evening, European museums open their doors and collections to all. To mark the occasion, the Musée du Louvre is calling on mediators from kindergarten through to higher education; and this year, students from Inalco are joining them.
As well as offering mediation on a selection of works, the latter have communicated and promoted this new collaboration. They focused on the exhibition "Venus d'ailleurs. Matériaux et objets voyageurs" from the Musée du Louvre, which presents a selection of objects illustrating cultural and commercial exchanges between distant worlds and peoples, both spatially and chronologically. The students put forward their own interpretation of these works, drawing on the knowledge transmitted by Inalco about the different geographical and cultural areas embodied by these precious objects.
In addition to taking part in the Nuit des musées, the partnership also enabled Inalco students to acquire new skills. First, they had the chance to attend a guided tour of the exhibition with the project leader, Florence Dinet. Then they took part in a training course in cultural mediation, given by Virginie Fromentin and Flavia Irollo, trainers and mediators at the Musée du Louvre. This enabled them to learn the appropriate methods for their mediation project. Alongside this practical training, the CFI students also met with the museum's communications team, during which they exchanged ideas and discussed their future prospects.
Thus begins this partnership between the academic and professional worlds. Through its organization and execution, it offers new opportunities to those involved, but also to its spectators, who will benefit from original mediation stemming from an innovative educational commitment.
Saturday, May 14, 2022 - from 4:45pm - Musée du Louvre
La Petite Galerie, aile Richelieu
Musée du Louvre Rue Rivoli, 75001 Paris
Métro line 1 stop Louvre-Rivoli
Contact: evenementiel@inalco.fr
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