Discover the cultural programming for January and February

At the start of 2025, join us and come experience unique moments in the heart of the departmental cultural sites of Val d'Oise!

Maubuisson Abbey – Contemporary art site

Until February 23, 2025: Exhibition Beyond the Unseen
This new exhibition proposes to bring together the artistic approaches of Cécile Beau and Grégoire Scalabre with a view to perpetuating the question of plant and landscape heritage and that of artisanal know-how giving rise to a unique dialogue between the history of the abbey and its contemporary transcription.

From January to February : Performances, guided tours, night tours, visits with babies, ceramic workshops, printing, writing games… at the dawn of this new year, an anthology of discoveries awaits you in the heart of an exceptional site!

18/01 : Dance performances by the creative incubator of the Cergy Dance Training Center

18/01 : Guided tour of the exhibition Beyond the Unseen by Cécile Beau

18/01 : Performance LEMNISCATE

19/01 : Ceramic workshop Clay Storytellers with B Wiener

19/01 : Sensory visit for toddlers

19/01 : Ceramic workshop Paths and inner rhythms with B Wiener
19/01 : Historical visit guided Chronology of Maubuisson: eight centuries revealed

15/02 : Slow visit with baby

15/02 : Atelier Printing of vegetable tannins

16/02 : Atelier Immersion writing games with Philippe Raimbault

16/02 : Guided historical tour Chronology of Maubuisson: eight centuries revealed

19/02 : Visit to the exhibition and plastic arts workshop with the family

22/02 : Exhibition night Beyond the Unseen

22/02 : Antoinette's Boom The Daron.ones boom

Complete program

Auvers-sur-Oise Castle

Until November 2, 2025:
Extension of the exhibition Van Gogh, the last journeys
Given the remarkable success of the exhibition with the international public (+50,000 visitors), it is extended for one year and enriched with around thirty works for an equally captivating second part.
In addition to self-guided tours, with or without audio guides, guided tours are offered to the public by reservation.

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Departmental Archaeological Museum of Val d'Oise

Famous for her police investigations, Agatha Christie (1890-1976) was also an adventurer who loved the Middle East. The “Queen of Crime” met her husband, archaeologist Max Mallowan, at the site of Ur in Iraq. Present at his side during the missions he leads, the author is a full member of the team of archaeologists.

Through this captivating exhibition, set off on an adventure and discover this aspect of the author's life which takes its source from Agatha Christie's archives.

FEBRUARY : Escape Game, conference, visits and workshops for the whole family, the archaeological museum team awaits you for unforgettable moments!

Saturday February 8 and Sunday February 9: Event – Inauguration weekend. AGATHA CHRISTIE exhibition, In search of archaeology. Dramatized interventions The Novelist and the Archaeologist. Immerse yourself in the fascinating world of Agatha Christie and Max Mallowan, her archaeologist husband, through our unique theatrical interventions combining anecdotes, travel stories and extracts from novels.

15/02, 21/02, 22.02, 23/02 : Escape Game (from 8 years old) Theater in play

15/02 : Agatha Christie and archeology conference

18/02 : Family moments (18 months-3 years) Prehistory in music

18/02 : Children's workshop (4-7 years old) Apprentice scribes

20/02 : Children's workshop (8-12 years old) Apprentice scribes

25/02 : Children's workshop (4-7 years old) A(r)giles architects

26/02 : Family moments (from 4 years old) Neolithic pottery

26/02 : Family moments (from 4 years old) La Passerelle

27/02 : Children's workshop (8-12 years old) A(r)giles architects

Complete Program

Tool Museum – Claude and Françoise Pigeard Collection

FEBRUARY : Workshops for young and old… meet at the museum!

15/02 : Workshop (from 8 years old) Puppet theater

19/02 : Workshop (from 8 years old) Apprentice shoemakers

20/02 : Workshop (4-7 years) Waffle mold

27/02 : Family time (18 months-3 years) Looking for the lost object

28/02 : Workshop (4-7 and 8-12 years old) Dare to use wicker

Complete program

Departmental Archeology Service of Val d'Oise

January 15, 2025: Postcards: between personal stories and stories of the Valdois territory. Conference led by Marie-Hélène Peltier, as part of the “Crossed Stories in Val d'Oise” conference cycle offered by the Departmental Archives and the Departmental Archeology Service of Val d'Oise. Postcards are both collector's items and documentary resources for those interested in the past of their territory. The rich double-sided digitized collection of the Departmental Archives of Val-d'Oise allows us to discuss their production context but also what they tell us about landscapes, heritage and society.

Until February 23, 2025: The entrenched camp of Paris. Exhibition produced and loaned by the Departmental Archeology Service of Val-d'Oise as part of the exhibition Walls-Walls of the Great War – Viarmes Museum. An exhibition which brings to life the journey of these soldiers drawn on the walls, via an animated device bringing them back to life and allowing them to recount their journey from the battlefield to the Royaumont hospital, through documents, photographs, notebooks. walk…