This fall, we’re swapping the traditional walk in the forest for an exhibition with family or friends. On the Mississippi, at the bottom of the sea or 900 years ago, there are many still journeys in Anjou!
Sailing the Mississippi
There is not much time left to enjoy the magnificent exhibition New Orleans, Mississippi, 1857in Loire Odyssée (Loire-Authion), visible until the end of the year! We embark, with Mark Twain, aboard a steamboat, on this legendary river. Thanks to pretty comic strips and an approach that is as educational as it is lively, visitors learn about life on the Mississippi, its devastating floods, its landscapes of cotton fields and the working conditions of the slaves who toiled there. Organized as part of the Biennial of the Great Rivers of the World, the exhibition will give way, next year, to a new installation, dedicated to the Ganges.
Until then, we can delve into the permanent exhibition, dedicated to “our” river, the Loire, and learn more about its economy, the life of the Ligerians, its fauna and flora… To take the greatest care of it!
Immerse yourself while staying dry
Diving to the bottom of the sea or to the confines of the cosmos in the oldest church in Angers is possible with the installation Depths to be explored at the Saint-Martin collegiate church, until January 26, 2025. Light shows, XXL projections, dancing sails and sound ambiance, this exhibition is an invitation to daydream. We lie down, lulled by the waves, sucked in by the black hole projected on the dome, hypnotized by the birds that invite themselves into the choir. This successful dreamlike journey is signed by the Angevin collective Lucie Lom, already at the origin of immersion in the forest Sylva in 2020 within these walls, and who imagined Depths like a “metaphor of natural change”.
The visit is accessible to people with reduced mobility and the route is also available in audio description for visually impaired children and adults.
Celebrating Eleanor of Aquitaine
This fall, the Royal Abbey of Fontevraud is celebrating the 900th anniversary of the birth of Eleanor of Aquitaine. Queen twice, of France then of England, Eleanor of Aquitaine gave birth to two kings of England who have gone down to posterity: Richard the Lionheart and John Landless. Intimately linked to the Abbey, she makes it her final resting place. Her polychrome recumbent figure, surrounded by those of Henry II Plantagenet and Richard the Lionheart, still fascinates visitors who come to greet her.
It is therefore natural that the Abbey pays homage to him, notably through the exhibition From one world to another, the final resting place of Eleanor of Aquitaine . This highlight recreates, on a full scale, the mausoleum built in the 17th century.e century before being dismantled during the Revolution and the prison era. A moving installation, the result of long scientific work, to be discovered until March 3, 2025.
Dedicated parking and lockers allow cycle tourists to enjoy the visit: so why not go there by bike?
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