As every year, Archéa, the Museum of Archeology in the Pays de France, located in Louvres, has unveiled its temporary exhibition.
January 31 in the morning, Émilie Fouquet, Exhibition manager et Melaine Lefeuvre, du Public service, received the press to present A time of mammoth, portrait of a missing giant - in place from January 31 to September 20, 2020 - before the official opening the same evening.
The exhibition was created in 2004 by the National Museum of Natural History, before becoming traveling. In 15 years, scientific research on the mammoth has evolved a lot. This is why the exhibition had to be adapted and why its presentation at Archéa will be the last.
The exhibition seeks to raise awareness of the mammoth: an emblematic animal and strongly present in the collective imagination, but yet little known. Thus, contrary to popular belief, mammoths have lived well on the territory of present-day Île-de-France. For example, a mammoth bone was found on the golf course of Roissy (which is scheduled to open in September 2020)!
In 4 parts, it is therefore a question of passing Myths… to reality, to deconstruct the received ideas on the environment and the life of the mammoth thanks to A mammoth cold et A mammoth life and finally to learn more about relationships with Man, in a final part devoted to Mammoths and Men.
To do this, the Archéa teams have designed a adapted, interactive and fun scenography, enriched with videos and interviews of scientists and games for the little ones; but above all from exceptional pieces such as casts of skeletons, teeth or mammoth bones, found in various places from Russia to Île-de-France, during archaeological excavations.
If the original exhibition was created by the National Museum of Natural History, A time of mammoth, portrait of a missing giant, was adapted by ARCHÉA in partnership with the Departmental Archaeological Service of Val-d'Oise and the National Institute for Preventive Archaeological Research.
In addition, the exhibition was able to see the light of day thanks to loans made by the three partners above as well as the National Archeology Museum - Domaine national de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the National Museum of Prehistory, the Departmental Museum of Prehistory of Île-de-France, the Archaeological Museum department of Val-d'Oise, the Museum of Grenoble, the Museum of Despite-Everything (Belgium), the Regional Archaeological Service of Île-de-France, the Interdepartmental Archaeological Service 78/92, the Archaeological Service of Val -de-Marne, the Evolution-Ecology-Paleontology laboratory (CNRS / University of Lille and the Physical Geography laboratory (CNRS).
A big thank you to the ARCHÉA teams for their welcome and their invitation to the presentation of this astonishing exhibition!
ARCHEA:
- 56 rue de Paris, 95380 Louvres
- +33 (0)1 34 09 01 02
- archea.roissypaysdefrance.fr
- exhibition open from January 31 to September 20, 2020
