Long-awaited, the Avignon Festival finally has its own museum
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Rehearsals for Ariane Mnouchkine's "Richard II" in the Cour d'honneur of the Palais des Papes, in 1982. (Maurice Costa)
The grant from the Ministry of Culture came in September, and the exhibition was put together in a year. Or to be more precise, in thirty years and one year. Because for three decades we had been talking about creating a museum of the Avignon Festival, opening Jean Vilar's notebooks, taking out the photos of the Festival taken by Agnès Varda , dusting off the costumes of the Théâtre national populaire, daring to lay eyes on the doll from Jerk , from Gisèle Vienne , or the masks of Mahabharata by Peter Brook . To highlight the immense collection of the Maison Jean Vilar (nearly 1,000 documents and objects) and other archives loaned by the artists themselves.
The first version of this museum
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