Guided tours on the history of the castle, its gardens, on the ongoing restorations and unusual discovery of the cellars

Name: Guided tours on the history of the castle, its gardens, on the ongoing restorations and unusual discovery of the cellars
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Château

Come visit the castle and let yourself be guided, then enjoy a family workshop and make origami birds to recreate the duchess' aviary.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free. Subject to availability.

©CD54-M. Colin

Come visit the castle and let yourself be guided, then enjoy a family workshop and make origami birds to recreate the duchess' aviary.

Discovery of the first works on the call to creation dedicated to the mirror of the Duchess Elisabeth-Charlotte.

About the location

Château

Place de la 2e Division de Cavalerie, 54300 Lunéville

Meurthe-et-Moselle
Grand Est

For the first time since the fire of 2003, the museum of the castle of Lunéville proposes, from 2018 and for several years, a route(course) of visit in three acts allowing the total discovery of the castle of Lunéville and of its history(story). This route(course) is re-ranked and enriched new acquisitions with the presentation(display) of exceptional rooms(parts,plays) existent from collections of the Palace of the dukes of Lorraine – Lorraine Museum. ACT 1: «GOLD AND GLORY, LUNÉVILLE AND ITS DUKES IN the XVIIITH CENTURY» On the occasion of its closure(lock) for renovation, the Palace of the dukes of Lorraine - Lorraine Museum, proposes within the museum of the Castle of Lunéville, a selection of major works manifesting the blooming of arts committed(hired) under Leopold and pursued by Stanislas. The visitor discovers the sumptuous portraits and the objects of splendour of the great figures which built the image of the castle of Lunéville and of the Lorraine. ACT 2:« THE CASTLE, BETWEEN COURSES(PRICES) AND GARDENS exhibition "(exposure") The revealed palace »opened in 2017 is transformed and receives new acquired rooms(parts,plays) recently by the Museum of the castle, of which tapestry« The greengrocers», an armchair of splendour of the XVIIIth century... This second act allows to evoke the construction of the building, the direction(fabrication) of power, but also the privileged and original link which the ducale family weaved here with nature in Europe at the time. ACT 3: «LIGHT ON THE COURT(YARD) OF LUNÉVILLE " The exhibition "(exposure") 10 years of revealed acquisitions »grows rich of new works: acquisitions, but also rooms(parts,plays) kept(preserved) in the reserves of the museum. Beyond the discovery of the culture of court(yard) developed in Lunéville, this third space tells the aesthetic, cultural, scientific and philosophical inheritance of the Age of the Enlightenment which beams today well beyond the walls of the castle of Lunéville.
The Castle of Lunéville, Palace of the last dukes of Lorraine, manifests unfolded pomps still widely the three centuries ago by a bright court(yard). The inheritance of the XVIIIth century makes of Lunéville "the castle of the Enlightenment". It was built from 1703 till 1720 for the duke Leopold Ier of Lorraine, on plans of the architect German Boffrand. If flames grievously hurt stones, the fire of January 2nd, 2003 saved(spared) the spirit of places. Since fire, the castle of Lunéville is the object of a large construction site(work) of reconstruction and of restoration(catering). A first working phase allowed to deliver more than 2000 m ² of surfaces restored and equipped for events(demonstrations) with cultural character (exhibition(exposure), conferences, concerts, philosophical coffees(cafés), …)