Mosaic of stamps to reconstitute the Marianne of the Bicentenary in the manner of Andy Warhol.

Name: Mosaic of stamps to reconstitute the Marianne of the Bicentenary in the manner of Andy Warhol.
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Grange aux dîmes

Open Doors on the French Republic

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

@Assemblée Nationale

In rooms 1 and 2 of the Grange aux Dîmes, the public will be able to discover the different symbolic aspects of the French Republic through exceptional philatelic collections and postal history documents on the President of the Republic, the Senate, the National Assembly, the places of power, the Flags, the Marianne and its evolution, the Rooster.
A quiz can help with the guided tour of the exhibition.
In addition to this exhibition, various workshops and animations for all audiences will encourage you to discover the French Republic by playing with the Crazy Battles.
The public will also take part in a mosaic of stamps to recreate the Marianne du Bicentenaire in the style of Andy Warhol.
A selfie animation with three great visuals, the garden of the Elysée, the garden of Luxembourg and the hemicycle of the Palais Bourbon will also be proposed
Visitors equipped with a virtual reality headset will also be able to immerse themselves in the heart of the Elysée, the Senate or the National Assembly (subject)

About the location

Grange aux dîmes

Place Lemarignier, 14150 Ouistreham

Calvados
Normandie

In the heart of its ancient village which has preserved a remarkable medieval heritage, the tithes barn is part of a beautiful set of rural buildings of monastic origin, recently restored. Until the Revolution, Ouistreham was an ecclesiastical, legal and fiscal dependency of the abbey to the Ladies of Caen whose abbess received the tithe (tax in kind representing about the tenth of the harvests, peaches and herds) stored in the barn provided for this purpose. This barn, which is mentioned for the first time in 1257, was abandoned during the so-called Hundred Years War period and probably rebuilt in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries using original elements, to resume its function. It was once part of the farm of the Abbey or Barony, owned by the Abbess patroness of Ouistreham. Tithe Barn