An expert in the cultures of the imagination, Alexandra Müller contributed to the creation of the Center Pompidou in Metz, and directed internationally renowned exhibitions. She succeeds Marie Masson, former director of Les Utopiales, who more than two years ago launched the City of Imaginations project, including the foreshadowing of the new Jules Verne Museum.
Alexandra Müller will take up her duties as the former CAP44 begins its transformation to become, by the end of 2028, the future Cité des Imaginaires with the great Jules Verne museum. She has been a member of the scientific committee of the Cité des Imaginaires for the past two years.
This major project, dedicated to the work of Jules Verne, questions modernity and fuels contemporary debates on progress, the unknown, difference and ecological transitions.
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« We are delighted that Alexandra Müller has arrived in Nantes and is heading the Jules Verne Museum and the Cité des imaginaires. She is a recognized professional in the museum field and has already conducted quality reflections and work on the issue of imaginaries. I have no doubt that she will be able to advance this major cultural project for the Metropolis with dynamism and ambition. “, confides Johanna Rolland in a press release.
Specialist in the imaginary
A graduate in philosophy, French literature and visual arts from the University of Münster, Alexandra Müller began her career in France and Germany, in galleries and at the Goethe Institute. After experiences at the DRAC and the Maison de Victor Hugo, she joined Laurent Le Bon for the prefiguration of the Centre Pompidou Metz.
She worked on the architectural project, programming and the link with the territory. In 2009, she joined the new Pompidou Metz as a research officer, working on exhibitions, preventive conservation and various transversal projects linked to the public.
A specialist in literature and imaginative cultures, she continues her research and was curator of the exhibition “ An imagined Museum —What if art disappeared? » in 2016, inspired by the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (trans. Jacques Chambon and Henri Robillot, Gallimard) then by “ The doors of possibility — Art and science fiction » in 2022.
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