«On the bill! The Feria under the line of contemporary artists» an exhibition to discover in guided tour

Name: «¡En la cartelera! La Feria como artistas contemporáneos» una exposición para descubrir en visita guiada
Start: 2023-09-16T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T15:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée des cultures taurines

To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Carré d'art, the museum of bullfighting cultures highlights the original works used to create the posters of the Feria de Nîmes. Since 1984, the City of Nîmes has…

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

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To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Carré d'art, the Museum of Bullfighting Cultures highlights the original works used to create the posters of the Feria de Nîmes. Since 1984, the City of Nîmes has entrusted the creation of the poster for this emblematic event to a renowned contemporary artist, marking an important milestone in the city’s life. Come and discover them on a guided tour during the European Heritage Days.

About the location

Musée des cultures taurines

6 rue Alexandre Ducros, 30000 Nîmes

Gard
Occitanie

Inaugurated in 2002 next to the bullfighting arenas(bullrings), the museum of culture is the first bullfighting museum of France. Real shop window(showcase) of the memory of local traditions, worth knowing(namely) tauromachy and from the Camargue running(race), museum shelters from numerous objects of any geographical origins (Europe, Asia, America) which illustrate the bull under all his facets. He(It) presents an unique(only) and important fund(collection) in France, value of which is scientific, historic, artistic and ethnographic at once, of about 30 000 rooms(parts,plays) by the grouping of four collections: the bullfighting collections of the Museum of Old Nîmes, those of Henriette and Claude Viallat, those of the association of the friends of the Museum of bullfighting Cultures and finally those of the fund(collection) Pierre Dupuy.