The Ministry of Culture has communicated the list of exhibitions receiving the “Exhibition of National Interest” label in 2024. Twenty-seven exhibitions from territorial museums were selected, three more than last year. Spread across thirteen regions, they highlight art, crafts and local history. Numerous monographic exhibitions have been certified, including several devoted to female artists. The place of women in history is a theme that emerges from the selection as does that of sport, particularly relevant this year with the Olympic Games.
Created in 1999, the “Exhibition of National Interest” label is awarded each year by the Ministry of Culture, as part of its policy of territorial action and cultural democratization. Its objective is to highlight exhibitions organized by regional museums benefiting from the “Musée de France” designation, selected by a committee of experts for “the originality of their speech, their original thematic approach and the innovative nature of their mediation and communication actions”. Museums receive subsidies from the relevant DRAC, varying between €4,000 and €30,000 depending on the projects.
Here is the list of twenty-seven exhibitions selected in 2024:
Zurbaran. An icon of the Golden Age.
Lyon, Museum of Fine Arts, December 4, 2024 – March 2, 2025
Colossi. Wrestlers, bodybuilders and tough guys in the visual arts.
Ornans, Courbet Museum, June 1 – October 13, 2024
Masters and wonders. Germanic paintings from French collections 1370-1530.
Dijon, Museum of Fine Arts, May 4 – September 23, 2024
Made in Germany. Germanic paintings from French collections (1500-1550).
Besançon, Museum of Fine Arts and Archaeology, May 4 – September 23, 2024
O Sport, Games for Gods.
Alise-Sainte-Reine, MuséoParc Alésia, March 23 – November 30, 2024
At work ! Women among the Nabis: Vuillard, Denis, Sérusier…
Pont-Aven, Pont-Aven Museum, June 22 – September 29, 2024
Aerosol. Graffiti story(s).
Rennes, Museum of Fine Arts, June 14 – September 22, 2024
The Scepter and the Distaff. Being a woman between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.
Tours, Museum of Fine Arts, March 8 – June 17, 2024
Color, glory and beauty. Germanic paintings from French collections (1420-1536).
Colmar, Unterlinden Museum, May 4 – September 26, 2024
Camille Claudel at work: Sakountala.
Nogent-sur-Seine, Camille Claudel Museum, September 14, 2024 – January 12, 2025
Art deco comes to the table.
Sarreguemines, Earthenware Museum, February 24 – December 24, 2024
André Charles Boulle.
Chantilly, Condé Museum, June 8 – October 6, 2024
Marisa Merz.
Villeneuve d'Ascq, LaM Museum of modern art, contemporary art and outsider art, May 3 – September 22, 2024
Eugène Carrière (1849-1906), of tenderness and friendship.
Saint-Cloud, Musée des Avelines, October 17, 2024 – February 16, 2025
The Dibbuk, theater, cinema and wandering souls.
Paris, Museum of Art and History of Judaism (Mahj), September 26, 2024 – January 26, 2025
The news story: A hypothesis in 26 letters, 5 equations and no answer.
Vitry-sur-Seine, MAC VAL, November 2024 – March 2025
Migrations of life.
Bordeaux, Museum – sciences and nature, November 2024 – March 2025
François I, a Cognac king.
Cognac, Cognac Museum of Art and History, June 7 – December 1, 2024
Vanuatu: women's powers.
La Rochelle, Natural History Museum, October 18, 2024 – September 21, 2025
Lise Deharme, the surrealist woman.
Montfort-en-Chalosse, Musée de la Chalosse, April 1 – October 31, 2024
Predictions. Artists facing the future.
Bourg-en-Bresse, Brou Museum, March 30 – June 23, 2024 and Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, Thomas-Henry Art Museum, July 12 – October 16, 2024
Stopover in the Roman Mediterranean. The ancient port of Narbonne.
Narbonne, Narbo Via, June 13, 2024 – January 5, 2025
Ethiopia, the valley of the steles.
Rodez, Fenaille Museum, June 15 – November 3, 2024
Cathars. Toulouse in the crusade.
Toulouse, Saint-Raymond Museum and Couvent des Jacobins, April 5, 2024 – January 5, 2025
Jean Daret. Painter to the king in Provence.
Aix-en-Provence, Granet Museum, June 15 – September 29, 2024
Let's drink ! Earthenware tells the story of wine.
Saumur, Château-musée de Saumur, February 10 – September 22, 2024
The Moderns, Reunionese painting from 1925 to 1946.
Saint-Denis, Léon Dierx Museum, October 27, 2023 – May 12, 2024
