A car podium transformed into a traveling “museum”
From October 15, 2022 to January 15, 2023, the Louvre-Lens museum
and the department of Pas-de-Calais
in partnership with France Bleu Nord launched the Egyptbus
Inside, you can experiment with new mediation devices, created for the Champollion exhibition currently on display at the museum: “Champollion. The path of hieroglyphs!”
Inspired by the ancient model of the Library of Alexandria and its mouseion, a distant ancestor of museums, the Egyptbus offers the inhabitants of Pas-de-Calais a plural experience based on multiple devices: around fifteen moldings from the Louvre workshops will allow visitors to get to know the great masterpieces of the Department of Egyptian Antiquities, including the famous Crouching Scribe , a virtual reality device will offer a journey of almost 10 minutes in the temple of Abu Simbel as Champollion explored it in 1828, a selection of books and games for all ages will be made available to deepen the immersion .
A true signature of the Louvre-Lens, human mediation adapted to all audiences will meet there every day for students, people with reduced mobility or with disabilities, children and toddlers, families and all public.
Arranged by the museum’s scenographer, the interior space of the Egyptbus, fully modular, can be deployed in an exhibition space, in a reading room, in a workshop room. Two “tipyramides” specially designed for the youngest children and their parents will be able to welcome Egyptian dreams, to the rhythm of readings enriched with activity mats and story cubes.
Like the museum’s program and the quality of its exhibitions, the Egyptbus will therefore offer all the wealth of experiences that the Louvre-Lens reserves for its audiences, outside its walls, by presenting high-quality historical and cultural content, accessible to all.
The eight stages of the “Egyptobus” in the Pas-de-Calais department:
– Boulogne-sur-Mer (Espace Mariette) from October 15 to 23 (France Bleu Nord live from the Egyptobus on Saturday October 15 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.)
– Departmental Park of Olhain from October 27 to November 1
– Montreuil-sur-Mer (Place du General de Gaulle) from 5 to 11 November (France Bleu Nord live from the Egyptobus on Saturday November 5 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.)
– Saint Omer (place Foch) from 16 to 21 November (France Bleu Nord live from the Egyptobus on Saturday November 19 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.)
– Liévin (place Gambetta) from 24 to 29 November (France Bleu Nord live from the Egyptobus on Saturday November 26 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.)
– Calais (Le Channel) from December 3 to 8 (France Bleu Nord live from the Egyptobus on Saturday December 3 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.)
– Saint-Pol-sur-Ternoise (town hall square) from December 14 to 19 (France Bleu Nord live from the Egyptobus on Saturday December 17, 2022 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.)
– Arras (Charles Péguy college) from January 10 to 15, 2023 (France Bleu Nord live from the Egyptobus on Saturday January 14, 2023 from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.)