European Heritage Days 2024

As it does every year, the museum is offering free access and visits to the chapel painted by Pablo Picasso on the theme of La Guerre et la Paix (1952). For more information

The former Vallauris priory houses the national Pablo Picasso museum, La Guerre et la Paix, and the municipal Magnelli museum, a ceramics museum. The offer of visits and activities, aimed at individuals of all ages (children, teenagers and adults), is proposed and managed by the public service of the musée Magnelli, musée de la céramique.

On the program:

Saturday, September 21:

• 10am: CHILDREN'S WORKSHOPS, ages 4 and up

Young and old alike can discover the 26^e Biennale Internationale de Vallauris / Création contemporaine et céramique thanks to an adapted, fun and creative workshop tour. After observing the artists' works, children can in turn model and decorate a fresh clay sculpture.

Photo: Ying Zheng, Purity of the feelings, 2023, glazed earthenware "gloop glaze"; photo Shawn Lin

• 3 pm : GUIDED TOUR of the 26th Vallauris International Biennial / Contemporary Creation and Ceramics by Céline Graziani, Exhibition Director and Curator

Vallauris puts the spotlight on contemporary ceramics by exhibiting the creations of 25 international artists. The tour will enable visitors to discover the diversity and vitality of today's ceramics scene, offering a rich and dynamic exploration of this creative universe. The Grand Prix de la Ville de Vallauris awarded to Laurent Nicolas for Inonotus will be particularly honored: "Knots, an ancestral practice, are akin to synapses that exchange vital information, opening up a whole field of interpretations on the creation of networks and connections."

Photo: Laurent Nicolas, Inonotus, 2023, white stoneware, porcelain, enamel, wood and rope; photo Sylvain Deleu

Sunday, September 22:

• 3pm : VISITS FAMILY WORKSHOPS: "LINKS AND CONNECTIONS"

Several artists from the 26^e Biennale Internationale de Vallauris / Création contemporaine et céramique have explored the theme of link, interconnection, and networks. Explore their interpretations during a tour, and then take your turn to create, as a family, a sculpture of clay and threads, that links you.

Photo: Rémy Dubibé, Rhizome (detail), 2022, porcelain and cotton thread; photo Sylvain Deleu

All weekend:

• Exhibition "Every day is eternal":

Awena Cozannet, a sculptor who also expresses herself through photography, installation and drawing, has been invited to take over the chapel at the Musée National Pablo Picasso in Vallauris. Awena Cozannet's works invite us to reflect on notions of displacement, perspectives and shared projects. At a time of migration and movements arising from conflict and climate disruption, these great figures in motion also echo her more personal questionings: with what inner baggage but also what weight does each individual move their life forward?

Photo: DR / musées nationaux du XXe siècle des Alpes-Maritimes / François Fernandez, © ADAGP, Paris, 2024.

• Access to permanent collections : "Picasso les années Vallauris" film, Picasso ceramics and linocuts on the first floor, historical ceramics tour on the 1^st floor, Alberto Magnelli collection on the 2^th floor.

• Exhibition 26^e Biennale Internationale de Vallauris / Contemporary creation and ceramics: Through this new edition, visitors are invited to an unprecedented encounter with the works of 25 creators, representing different sensibilities, different current trends in the contemporary ceramic landscape. On the 1st floor of the museum and in the Eden room.