It has been a month since Noémie Wavre, winner of the main conservation assistant competition in 2023, ensured the management of the Municipal Museum of Avallonnais Jean Després (Avallon, Yonne).
Born in 1997, Noémie Wavier joined the Louvre school following a literary preparatory class. She obtained her undergraduate diplomas in museology and second cycle, and follows the preparatory class for conservative competitions, specialized in art history and archeology of civilizations in the Greco-Roman world.
His journey is punctuated by numerous internships, at the Museum of Fine Arts in Orleans, at the Archeology Pole of Orleans, at the Museum of National Archeology, at the Drac Center-Val de Loire as well as abroad, at the Rhine Museum in Trier in Germany.
These experiences have enabled him to familiarize himself with the internal functioning of a museum, a major issue for student-conservatives, often confronted with the reality on the ground only after their training. As she entrusted to the Journal des Arts: “We must succeed in constantly alternating between several caps, since it is both a very administrative position (you have to manage the team of three agents with which I work, make the link with the municipality, the DRAC, the partners) and very scientific (Mon Poste also includes the scientific responsibility of the museum), without forgetting the transmission to the public, which is essential. »» “But I’m well surrounded”she adds.
It naturally wishes to increase frequentation of the museum. The goal is to “Make visitors want to come, and come back. To desecrate the image that the inhabitants of Avallon of the museum have as a dusty and inaccessible place because “too learned”: we really want to give the visitors the museum that the museum is part of the social places of the city. »» The city had 6,346 inhabitants in 2022.
Founded in 1862 by the Avallon Study Society, the museum has been installed since 1971 in the old town of the city. He bears the name of Jean Després, famous Avallonnais goldsmith. It houses a collection covering natural history, local archeology, fine arts, and also includes an important fund linked to Jean Després as well as an ethnographic section with the Yao collection. Vegan at the museum in 2008 by the ethnologist Jess Pourt, the Yao collection brings together several hundred costumes, as well as for ritual objects and religious artefacts of the Southeast Asian Yao ethnicity.
Asked about future projects, Noémie Wavre indicates that it wants to strengthen actions for school and extra-curricular audiences, and find a regular rhythm for temporary exhibitions, more structured than the “Exhibitions-Flash” currently offered. Among the latest, the museum has organized an exhibition related to the Olympic Games, presenting posters from the private collection of Pierre Grézard.
