Guided tour "Backstage" / Costume stores

Name: Guided tour "Backstage" / Costume stores
Start: 2023-09-16T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-16T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée du théâtre forain

Come and discover, through an exceptional visit, the second collection of stage costumes in France!

Saturday 16 September 2023, 14:30, 16:30Passed

Conditions

Limited number of seats

Registration

0238800973

Come discover, through an exceptional visit, the second collection of stage costumes of France!

The museum opens the doors of its stores and offers you to discover an exceptional collection, composed of 3500 costumes and stage accessories used by itinerant theatres from the middle of the 19th century until the late 1970s. In a small group, you will discover the costume reserves and the restoration workshop, as well as the important conservation, inventory and valorization work carried out by the museum team for over 25 years.

About the location

Musée du théâtre forain

6 rue du Paradis 45410 Artenay

Loiret
Centre-Val de Loire

Unique(Only) in Europe, the Museum of Fairground Theatre proposes a walk across the four centuries of history(story) of travelling theatre, on the steps of Molière, of the commedia dell'arte and of removable theatres which livened up(led) in the past the French campaigns(countrysides). In a magical place presenting decorations(sets) of stage(scene), period costumes and accessories, the travelling actors enter last time on stage to make you discover the big(great) adventure of fairground theatre... That show begins!