Restitution of the project "Opération Messages" in connection with the gerontological hospital of Fourvière and the theatre company ArTpente

Name: Restitution du projet "Opération Messages" en lien avec l'hôpital gérontologique de Fourvière et la compagnie théâtrale les ArTpenteurs
Start: 2023-09-16T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Musée de l'imprimerie et de la communication graphique

These JEP 2023 will be an opportunity to present the culmination of the “Opération Messages”, a two-year, cross-generational project funded under the Culture & Health scheme and bringing together the.

16 et 17 septembre 2023Passé

©Sarah Lowicki pour le MICG

These JEP 2023 will be an opportunity to present the outcome of the «Opération Messages», a transgenerational project over two years funded within the framework of the Culture & Santé device and bringing together the gerontological hospital of Fourvière, the company ArTpenteurs and the museum of printing and graphic communication.
Discover the mini exhibition on correspondence written by patients of the hospital with the help of the writer Elisabeth Granjon, and graphically formatted on the presses of the typographic workshop of the museum. Come listen on Saturday afternoon to a selection of these letters!

À propos du lieu

Musée de l'imprimerie et de la communication graphique

13, rue de la Poulaillerie, 69002 Lyon, Métropole de Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Métropole de Lyon
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Built in the middle of the XVth century, it is in time(period) a private house. The provost of the traders (comparable to a current mayor) and the aldermen (equivalent to the local councillors of today) purchase there in 1604, to instal(settle) the Town house there. They leave her in 1654 for the very new Town hall of Lyons, always located place(square) of Humus. Credit Lyonnais(inhabitant of Lyon) settles down in this urban island in 1863 and gives up(sells) the building(ship) to the City of Lyons in 1956, it is in this period when works are done with the aim of the opening of the museum in 1964 the themes of the printing of which cleared themselves by the importance of the city as production site and centre of business(trade) of books(pounds) in the XVth and XIXth centuries The naming «Museum of France» was attributed(awarded) in 2005 to the museum of the Printing which becomes in 2015 museum of Printing and of graphic Communication.