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GETAWAYS
Alain-Yves Brégent, from the Friends of Guimet, is preparing numerous getaways for the months ahead
2025, the great year of getaways
Being able to offer this type of experience makes us proud, and the strong level of participation appears to reflect your satisfaction. These getaways confirm the importance of thoughtful, demanding, and stimulating programming for all.
Organizing and accompanying 10 cultural getaways over the course of a year represents a significant milestone. Each one was conceived as a fully fledged experience, emphasizing the quality of exchanges, time for discovery, and access to places rich in meaning.
The getaways were designed as moments of cultural respite, far removed from any logic of accumulation.
Whether in Nantes, Nancy, Loches, Geneva, Lorient, Orléans, Rochefort, or Rennes, they offered the opportunity to explore museums and cities in depth. Each visit encouraged close attention to the works, their context, and the stories they convey. Whether familiar settings or entirely new discoveries, these getaways enabled genuine cultural immersion.
Conceived and led by Alain-Yves Brégent, these getaways are prepared in consultation with curators and specialists according to each project (museums, hotels, foundations), which constitutes a true guarantee of quality and deserves to be emphasized.
CONFERENCES
Thursday, February 27th, 2:30PM, the auditorium of the Guimet Museum, conference hosted by Jean-David Levitte « une vie avec la Chine » (270 spots)
Ambassador of France and member of the Institute, Jean-David Levitte has closely witnessed the upheavals in China, from the Cultural Revolution, during which he was posted in Beijing, to the present day. As a privileged observer for 50 years, he passionately recounts and brilliantly analyzes, through numerous unpublished anecdotes, encounters at the highest levels of the state.
Jean-David Levitte has had an exceptionally distinguished diplomatic career: Ambassador to the United Nations in New York, then to the United States in Washington, and for sixteen years, he served as the foreign policy advisor to three French Presidents at the Élysée.
Mercredi 12 mars, 14h30 , Salon Pelliot de l’Hôtel Heidelbach (19 avenue d’Iéna 75116 Paris) : conférence « Le projet HikarIA : L’intelligence artificielle au service de l’étude et de la valorisation des photographies anciennes du Japon » (60 places)
Supported by the state through the national investment plan France 2030, the HikarIA project (2023-2026) leverages artificial intelligence tools to facilitate the study and enhancement of photographic heritage. Led by the Musée Guimet in partnership with TEKLIA, a company specializing in computer vision software development, the project has three main objectives:
Preserve, study, and share the photographic collections of the Musée Guimet.
Develop new tools for art history research by optimizing the automated description of historical photographs.
Expand knowledge of photography in Japan during the Bakumatsu and Meiji eras (1853-1912).
Speakers:
Édouard de Saint-Ours (Curator of Photographic Collections, Musée Guimet)
Doctor in Art History (University of St Andrews) and Contemporary History (Université Le Havre Normandie), Édouard de Saint-Ours specializes in the development of photography in 19th-century Asia.
Christopher Kermorvant (President & Chief Scientific Officer, TEKLIA)
An engineer in computer science and a PhD in artificial intelligence, Christopher Kermorvant is an expert in AI applied to the analysis of historical and cultural documents. He founded TEKLIA in 2015 to develop AI solutions for document recognition and exploration within libraries, archives, and museums.
PRIVATE TOURS
MARCH
Tuesday, March 4th, 3PM, Maison Européenne de la Photographie: private visite of the studio exhibition Chia Huang (24 spots)
Friday, March 14th, 11:30 AM, Musée des Arts Décoratifs: private visit of the exhibition « Christofle, une brillante histoire » (19 spots)
Monday, March 24th, 10:30AM, Guimet Museum: private visit of the exhibition « Marc Riboud. Photographies du Vietnam 1966-1976 » by the exhibition curator Lorne Durret (15 spots)
Tuesday, March 25th, 2:30PM: private visit of the studio of artist Pierre Bonnefille (15 spots)
FEBRUARY
Thursday, February 6th, 2PM, National Library of France ( site François Mitterrand, salle 70 ): off-site conference « Où en est la puissance chinoise ? État des lieux » ( 20 spots )
Thursday, February 6th, 7:30PM, Maison de la culture du Japon à Paris : Movie « Warring Clans » (15 spots)
Thursday, February 20th, 10AM, Guimet Museum : private visit of the exhibition « La Chine des Tang : une dynastie cosmopolite (7e - 10e siècle) » with Eloïse Véronési , tour guide (19 spots)
Friday, February 21st, 10h30, Quai Branly Museum: private visit of the exhibition « au fil de l’or » with Hana Chidiac and Magali An Berthon, curators of the exhibition (19 spots)
Monday, February 24th, 2PM, Guimet Museum : visite privée de l’exposition « La Chine des Tang : une dynastie cosmopolite (7e - 10e siècle) » with Eloïse Véronési , tour guide (19 spots)
