City of theatre, Avignon is also a city of visual arts. From prehistory to the leading edge of contemporary art, museums in the area display permanent collections of infinite interest. Not to be missed.
Amazônia
Photographs by Sebastião Salgado
Sebastião Salgado explored the Amazon region in Brazil for over seven years,
photographing the forest, the rivers, the mountains and the people who live there.
This deep universe, where the immense power of nature can be felt like nowhere else on earth,
is the source of the gripping photographs, the images that surged before the photographer’s eye.
Accompanied by a sound creation, a veritable world-symphony imagined by
Jean-Michel Jarre starting with tangible sounds from the forest, the exhibit shares
the voices and words from the Amerindian communities that have been photographed.
27 june > 30 november 2022
Palace of the Popes
Avignon
AVIGNON MUSEUMS/UNIQUE COLLECTIONS
Five museums in Avignon, (Calvet, Lapidaire, Petit Palais, Requien, Palais du Roure) that complement each other well and display several thousand works of art –objects, documents, paintings, sculptures- housed in some of the most beautiful buildings in Avignon. What more could you ask? Oh, and by the way, they are free!
COLLECTION LAMBERT
Welcome to the very lair of contemporary art. Minimal art, Conceptual art, Land art, painting from the 1980’s, video and photography from the 1990’s, the collections donated by Yvon Lambert and displayed in the Hôtel de Caumont city mansion are a concentrate of contemporary art.
Louis Vouland
Welcome to the very lair of contemporary art. Minimal art, Conceptual art, Land art, painting from the 1980’s, video and photography from the 1990’s, the collections donated by Yvon Lambert and displayed in the Hôtel de Caumont city mansion are a concentrate of contemporary art.
Angladon
A ‘home that is a museum’ that holds treasures and has kept the charm of an art-lover’s interior. Works by Modigliani, Cézanne, Van Gogh, Picasso, to name but a few of the prestigious signatures. Several other marvels to delight the eyes are very worth discovering. .
Pierre de Luxembourg
A former Cardinal’s palace, in the heart of Villeneuve lez Avignon, this museum houses two masterpieces from the medieval western world, and paintings from the French and Provençal Schools of the 16th and 17th centuries.
Discover, with the whole family, on your own and just the two of you, the unusual museums, folk museums and other unexpected things to see. There are museums featuring the world of sweets, the world of perfume, toys, clocks and other fields that give you a playful approach to the area.
EXHIBITIONS
Permanent or temporary, contemporary or classic, explore the exhibitions that enrich the entire territory of Avignon.
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