What's On : 10
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from 19/12/2019 to 31/05/2020ExhibitionWaiting for the Emperor: Archaeological and Urban Monuments in Napoleon’s Rome 1809-1814
In 1808 Rome was occupied by the French army. The following year, the city was annexed and declared the second city of the Napoleonic Empire after Paris. The emperor’s son was given the title “King of Rome”, and for five years Rome waited for an Emperor who would never arrive. The exhibition is divided into […]
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from 28/11/2019 to 31/03/2020ExhibitionFrom Ligny to Waterloo: the confrontations between Napoleon and Blücher in 1815
This exhibition is organised on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the death of Field Marshal Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, who died in September 1819. He was one of the great figures of the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 as he was at the head of the Prussian army. To commemorate this anniversary, Prussian, […]
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from 15/11/2019 to 03/05/2020ExhibitionGeorge IV: Art and Spectacle
The Queen’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace Buckingham Palace, London, SW1A 1AA UK Practical information website Prices Adult £13.50 Over 60 £12.20 Student £10.80 Under 17 / Disabled £6.70 Under 5 Free Family (2 adults and 3 under 17s) £33.50
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from 19/10/2019 to 01/03/2020ExhibitionA Newly Ordered World – Treasures from the Napoleonic Era
Museum’s presentation: “Napoleon Bonaparte reorganized the European world in many respects. 2019 will mark the 250th anniversary of his birthday, an occasion that inspired Pforzheim’s Jewellery Museum to organize a special exhibition spotlighting the new kind of jewellery and fashion characteristic of the Napoleonic era. Back then, the Neoclassical style of the Revolution and the […]
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from 09/10/2019 to 10/05/2020ExhibitionKehinde Wiley meets Jacques-Louis David
The two paintings will be presented at the Chateau de Malmaison from 9 October 2019 to 6 January 2020, then at the Brooklyn Museum from 24 January to 10 May 2020. This presentation, jointly organised by the curators of the two institutions, will be accompanied, on each site, by a rich cultural programme highlighting both […]
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from 26/07/2019 to 31/12/2020OtherExperience the “Retour des cendres” in 3-D at the Arc de Triomphe
The Arc de Triomphe was ordered by Napoleon I in 1806. Exiled to St Helena in 1815, the Emperor died 15 years before the monument was completed (in 1836). It was in a spirit of reconciliation between all French people that King Louis-Philippe decided, in 1840, to have the Emperor’s body brought back to France on board the famous frigate Belle […]
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from 05/07/2019 to 21/12/2019ExhibitionImperial corsica. Napoleon III and Corsica (1851-1870)
The imperial regime of Napoleon III during the Second Empire was a major turning point for Corsica, a highly symbolic peripheral region at the time. With more than 250 historical works and objects, the exhibition accurately reconstructs the emperor’s unique connection with the island. Between the hope of both social and economic progress and cultural […]
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from 18/05/2019 to 15/12/2019ExhibitionFil rouge [Painting Rueil-Malmaison red]
Musée d’histoire locale Place du 11 novembre 1918 92500 Rueil-Malmaison Tel: 01 47 32 32 66 50 website The Fondation Napoléon is lending the following works from its collection to the city of Rueil-Malmaison. Annuaire dramatique ou étrennes théâtrales. Paris, Madame Cavanach, 1807. La Constitution française décrétée par l’Assemblée Nationale Constituante aux années 1789, 1790, […]
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from 14/03/2019 to 31/12/2019Exhibition, OtherBicentenary of the Births of Victoria and Albert
London The V&A Museum (London, UK) celebrates the 200th anniversary of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert’s births with a season of events and displays, including a new addition to the jewellery collection – Queen Victoria’s stunning sapphire and diamond coronet (video), designed for her by Albert, and on display from 11 April Victoria and Albert’s Museum (13 […]
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from 01/01/2019 to 31/12/2019Other250th anniversary of Napoleon’s birth: various events
March-December 2019, in Autun (and on the occasion of the 240th anniversary of the arrival of Joseph and Napoleon): IMPERIAL YEAR. With talks, exhibitions, guided tours, theatre,… Read more (link in French) May-October 2019, Ajaccio: NAPOLEON YEAR. With an exhibition about Mathilde Bonaparte at the Palais Fesch Museum; an exhibition focusing on Napoleon in contemporary […]