Demonstration of engraving techniques

Name: Demostración de técnicas de grabado
Start: 2023-09-16T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Musée de l'imprimerie et de la communication graphique

Françoise Allex, visual artist, will be installed at the heart of the museum’s permanent journey and will make you discover engraving techniques on different media: gum, rhenalon, linoleum, tet…

16 i 17 septiembre 2023Passed

©Sarah Lowicki pour le MICG

Françoise Allex, visual artist, will be installed in the heart of the permanent course of the museum and will make you discover engraving techniques on different supports: gum, rhenalon, linoleum, tetrapack, collagraphy etc... To make you want to learn!

About the location

Musée de l'imprimerie et de la communication graphique

13, rue de la Poulaillerie, 69002 Lyon, Métropole de Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Métropole de Lyon
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Built in the middle of the XVth century, it is in time(period) a private house. The provost of the traders (comparable to a current mayor) and the aldermen (equivalent to the local councillors of today) purchase there in 1604, to instal(settle) the Town house there. They leave her in 1654 for the very new Town hall of Lyons, always located place(square) of Humus. Credit Lyonnais(inhabitant of Lyon) settles down in this urban island in 1863 and gives up(sells) the building(ship) to the City of Lyons in 1956, it is in this period when works are done with the aim of the opening of the museum in 1964 the themes of the printing of which cleared themselves by the importance of the city as production site and centre of business(trade) of books(pounds) in the XVth and XIXth centuries The naming «Museum of France» was attributed(awarded) in 2005 to the museum of the Printing which becomes in 2015 museum of Printing and of graphic Communication.