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Current exhibitions in Marseille

Discover a selection of exhibitions currently taking place or about to open in Marseille. From the Musée des Arts Décoratifs to the Mucem and the Musée d’Histoire de Marseille, you’re sure to find what you’re looking for for a cultural outing with family, friends or on your own.

Published on 23 August 2023

Downtown exhibitions

Plossu Bernard Haight Ashbury San Francisco 1966 Tirage Fressonregards De Provence

Back (retour)

October 18, 2024 > March 16, 2025
Mucem
The exhibition explores the question of migration in the Mediterranean, with a focus on the theme of return, sometimes impossible or diverted, due to borders, wars or politics. Through objects, works of art and personal accounts, it examines the different experiences of return, mixing dreams, memories and realities, while drawing on a survey carried out in several Mediterranean countries.
Find out more about the exhibition Revenir

The Hip Years – Bernard Plossu

October 3 2024 > March 9 2025
Musée Regards de Provence
The exhibition “Les années Hip – Bernard Plossu” at the Musée Regards de Provence in Marseille retraces the photographer’s discovery of California in 1966. He captures the hustle and bustle of San Francisco and the wild beauty of Big Sur, a refuge for early environmentalists and opponents of the Vietnam War.
Find out more about the exhibition “The Hip Years – Bernard Plossu”.

Popular?

December 13, 2023 > December 31, 2026
Mucem
This exceptional collection brings together the historical holdings of the Musée national des arts et traditions populaires, the European collections of the Musée de l’Homme and those acquired since the early 2000s, with a view to opening up to the Mediterranean and the contemporary world. The general tour takes visitors through the major categories borrowed from the vocabulary of the history of art and technology.
Find out more about the Populaire exhibition

Off-center exhibitions

[mac]room : Mégane Brauer – Kings of the world

october 26, 2024 > march 2, 2025
Musée d’Art Contemporain [mac]
Through her texts and installations, Mégane Brauer addresses issues of class by reimagining working-class objects and situations to give them a new place. Her exhibition “Les Rois du monde”, created for the [mac]room, follows “Cry me a river”, presented at the Musée Transitoire in 2023 in Paris.
More about the exhibition Mégane Brauer – Les Rois du monde

Plastic Butcher – Anita Molinero

october 26, 2024 > march 30, 2025
Musée d’Art Contemporain [mac]
The “Plastic Butcher” exhibition is an artistic manifesto in which Anita Molinero, through some fifty works sculpted by brutal and irreversible gestures, blends humor, anger and the transformation of materials to the limits of formlessness.
Find out more about the Plastic Butcher exhibition

Michel Gondry’s amateur film factory

July 03, 2024 > April 27, 2025
Château de la Buzine
As in the film “Soyez sympas, rembobinez” with Jack Black and Mos Def, the Usine de Films Amateurs invites you to create a film from A to Z in just 3 hours, with no training required. You’ll have access to all the sets and equipment needed to write, shoot and direct your own film, and you’ll leave with your work in hand.
Find out more about the Michel Gondry exhibition

Chez Nos voisins

Steve Mccurry Rangoon Burma Current Myanmar 1994 70x100cm Steve Mccurry In Partnership With Orion57 Curator Biba Giacchetti

Steve McCurry – Views

November 8 2024 > March 23 2025
Hôtel de Caumont – Aix-en-Provence

Steve McCurry’s exhibition at Caumont-Centre d’art presents 80 of his most emblematic works, including shots never before seen in France, retracing 40 years of career and travels around the world. It offers a thematic tour revealing his humanistic view of humanity, between tradition and modernity, with a special tribute to the monsoon.
Find out more about the “Steve McCurry: Regards” exhibition