Inalco invites itself to the Louvre for the night

11 April 2023

  • Culture

  • Training

As part of the Louvre Museum's "Campus Louvre, la nocturne" program, L3 students in Inalco's CFI (Intercultural Communication and Training) program are developing and presenting a cultural mediation event on April 7, 2023.
Esthétique(s) de l’Orient
Esthétique(s) de l’Orient © Inalco‎

Friday, April 7, 2023 from 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm
Musée du Louvre - Rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris - Aile Richelieu, level 1
Full event. Seats are currently up for grabs via a competition on the instagram page of the CFI course (draw on Wednesday April 5 at 3pm).


The Louvre and Inalco are renewing their partnership, following the success of Inalco's participation in Nuit des musées 2022. This year, L3 students in the CFI (Intercultural Communication and Training) stream have built a mediation and communication project for the final nocturne of the "Campus Louvre, la nocturne !" program, on April 7, 2023. This partnership is part of the student 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".

This partnership offers young people at Inalco new knowledge about cultural mediation and the treasures of the Louvre. It also enables Inalco students to acquire new skills. Mediation training was offered to CFI students in preparation for the Louvre nocturne. This enabled them to learn the appropriate methods to make a success of the project.

In fact, the project encourages students to share the knowledge they have acquired at Inalco with international visitors to the Louvre during the nocturne on April 7, 2023. The aim is for each higher education institution taking part in the program to contribute its own particular perspective.

In this context, students in the L3 CFI course submitted an application based on the theme "Aesthetic(s) of the Orient", which was chosen by the Louvre's selection committee. While highlighting lesser-known works from the Louvre's Richelieu wing, and in particular the Napoleon III apartments, they reflect, through intercultural reasoning, on representations of beauty by the Orient and its perceptions in the West, as well as the latter's attempts to reproduce these famous Oriental aesthetics.

This is therefore a genuine encounter that enables both Inalco and the Louvre to cross-fertilize their approaches and skills.