Avignon, land of culture(s)

With Avignon, Terre de cultures 2025, the city signs Act 2 of a strong cultural ambition for Avignon, with an ambitious action plan that mobilizes all the region’s cultural players. Avignon, Terre de culture 2025″ will be four years of creativity, experimentation, initiative and excitement for and with artists and residents alike: In our schools, our neighborhoods, our libraries, our heritage sites, in the street, in homes, all forms of artistic expression will be invited at all times, within everyone’s reach! To ensure that this energy lasts, which will be gradually built up until the climax in 2025, new venues will open up, making culture a lasting part of the city’s urban narrative.” Cécile Helle, Mayor of Avignon > Discover the project (.pdf)

Five museums (Calvet, Lapidaire, Petit Palais, Requien, Palais du Roure) complement each other, displaying thousands of works of art – objects, documents, paintings and sculptures – in Avignon’s finest buildings. And what’s more, it’s free for all!

Take the time to discover the city’s private museums, home to some of the world’s most famous names in art history, and the Musée Pierre de Luxembourg in Villeneuve lez Avignon.

Matteo Giovannetti, Enguerrand Quarton, Pierre Mignard, Claude Joseph Vernet, Pierre Grivolas, Claude Firmin, but also Olivier Messiaen, Jean Sully Dumas, Pierre Boulle, Mireille Matthieu, Jean Vilar, Ernest Pignon-Ernest and more recently Goddog or Space invader… They were born here, lived here, still live here, and have been, or still are, inspired by Avignon. Sometimes even on its walls, where they leave their mark and add to its legend.

While Avignon has for decades been (re)known as a land of theater, it is also home to numerous musical events throughout the year: classical music, baroque, electro, jazz, rock… There’s something for everyone! For opera lovers, the town boasts an opera house presenting a number of new works; for fans of jazz and improvised music, there’s the AJMI! And let’s not forget contemporary music, with the Id-Ile and Résonance festivals.