The contemporary and its backstage

Name: Visite de La contemporaine et de ses coulisses
Start: 2023-09-16T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-16T17:30:00+02:00
Location: La Contemporaine

The contemporary opens all its doors. Go behind the scenes of the building designed by the Bruno Gaudin workshop and discover the richness of the collections of this institution, both biblioth…

Samedi 16 septembre 2023, 13h00Passé

Laure Ohnona - La contemporaine

The contemporary opens all its doors. Go behind the scenes of the building designed by the Bruno Gaudin workshop and discover the richness of the collections of this institution, both library, archive center and museum. Reading room, collections processing rooms, exhibition spaces, reserves... The contemporary is unveiled! Group of 12 people per visit, departure at 1 p.m., 2.30 p.m., 4 p.m. and 5.30 p.m.

À propos du lieu

La Contemporaine

184 cours Nicole-Dreyfus 92000 Nanterre

Hauts-de-Seine
Île-de-France

At once a library, museum and archives centre, La contemporaine is the only institution in France to collect, preserve and communicate collections on the entire European history of the 20th and 21st centuries. Created in 1918, its purpose since its inception is to gather all the materials and documentary traces of events that can be used to interpret and write the history of our time. Today, it offers more than 4.5 million documents (books, press, leaflets, archives, films, works of art, photographs, posters, press drawings and objects) for consultation. An inter-university institution attached to the Université Paris Nanterre, a member of the ComUE Paris Lumières and the Campus Condorcet, La contemporaine opened a new facility at the entrance to the Nanterre university campus in October 2021\. Open to both the university and the city, it facilitates the meeting of all audiences, students, researchers, high school students, history enthusiasts... and an exceptional heritage collection.