Guided tour of the Freedom of Thought section

Name: Guided tour of the Freedom of Thought section
Start: 2022-09-17T11:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T12:00:00+02:00
Location: MUSÉE D'HISTOIRE Jean Garcin : 39-45 L'APPEL DE LA LIBERTÉ

Discover the new scenography of this room dedicated to the engagement of intellectuals and artists during the Second World War.

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

Free, upon registration

Registration

0490202400 musee-appel-liberte@vaucluse.fr

DepartementdeVaucluse / Xavier Bonillo

Guided tour of **the Freedom of the Spirit section** This room, dedicated to the engagement of intellectuals and artists during the war, presents a rich collection of original editions, manuscripts and illustrations of authors and artists of the period: Roger Bernard, André Breton, René Char, Paul Éluard, Elsa Triolet, Vercors but also Jean Angladon, Oscar Dominguez, Valentine Hugo, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and many others...

Types d'événement

Visite commentée / Conférence

Thème 2022

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Conditions de participation

Gratuit, Sur inscription

About the location

MUSÉE D'HISTOIRE Jean Garcin : 39-45 L'APPEL DE LA LIBERTÉ

Chemin du gouffre, 84800 Fontaine-de-Vaucluse

Vaucluse
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Opened in 1990, the museum recreates through a multidisciplinary approach – historical, literary and artistic – a whole period from the pre-war period to the Liberation. A collection of more than 10,000 pieces, objects and documents, evokes, in cinematographic settings inspired by poetic realism, the daily life of the French under occupation and then a presentation of the resistance in the Vaucluse, within the national gesture, apprehends, through the narrative and the testimonies of the actors of the event, the deep motivations of the behaviors; finally a third section: «freedom of the mind» proposes an in-depth reflection on «intelligence in war», the ideals of the resistance, their teaching and meaning. It brings together a number of clandestine, censored and foreign editions, activist magazines, manuscripts by René Char, Georges Rouault, André Breton… and original works by Henri Matisse, Joan Mirò…