THE CERCO’S TEN YEARS
A concert, visits, demonstrations... For the European Heritage Days, we celebrate CERCO!
Located at the Atelier des roues, rue Yvan Audouard, close to the Luma Tower, this place, usually closed to the general public, was designed to accommodate thousands of objects and works as well as the vast archives that make up the ethnographic collections of the Museon Arlaten. Much more than a simple storage place, it is an innovative technical center and a tool at the service of the territory: place of conservation, study, restoration, benefiting from high precision equipment to take care of this common heritage. Welcome to the Centre d'études, de restauration et de conservation des oeuvres!
VISITS TO THE RESERVES AND WORKSHOPS
Free visits, without reservation, subject to availability.
Saturday, September 16, from 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm and Sunday, September 17, from 2:30 pm to 6:30 pm.
Housed in the former railway workshops of Arles dating from the 19th century (more precisely in the Workshop of wheels and springs), the CERCO was designed by the architectural firm Anne Lévy and Nicolas Magnan to accommodate 40,000 objects and works (only 3,600 are on display) the Museon Arlaten as well as hundreds of linear metres of archives and heritage libraries.
CERCO is a place of conservation, study and restoration, benefiting from high-tech equipment with its three dust removal, framing and light restoration workshops, not to mention its flagship: a room dedicated to disinsectisation by freezing and anoxia (oxygen starvation).
The CERCO allows museum teams to inventory, package works, books and archives, and prepare exhibitions under optimal conditions. A space welcomes by appointment researchers for the study of written, sound and audiovisual funds.