Le Musée Bleu, an Architecture in the Color of Time

Le Musée Bleu, an Architecture in the Color of Time, is an exhibition produced in collaboration with the Cité de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine, and celebrates the birth of the institution, its collections and its architecture.

These 30 years of service to heritage were enabled by the curator Jean-Maurice Rouquette and the architect Henri Ciriani, who created a showcase for the collections that finally brought them together.

The tour traces Ciriani’s work and the various stages in the creation of the Musée Bleu. Concurrently, it sheds light on the museum’s historic holdings—artworks scattered across Arles since the 18th century, now brought into focus. Everyone will be able to share their own vision of ‘their’ Musée Bleu and their memories thanks to the reconstruction of the collection of testimonies assembled for the museum's 30th anniversary.

SMITH offers a photographic and plastic dialogue with the collections, while students from the École nationale supérieure de la photographie in Arles nourish the itinerary with their own creations.

Privileged viewpoints guide the public's gaze through the permanent collections in order to invite a renewed discovery of the architecture.
 

Michel Lacanaud. Institut de recherche de la Provence antique, 1995