
The Color Museum, an interdisciplinary project of scientific, technical and artistic culture
Building on the work to promote the collection carried out since 2021, the institute is today piloting, in collaboration with the SU University Library, an interfaculty project of scientific, technical and artistic culture: the creation of the “Museum of Color” in the heart of the University, on the Pierre and Marie Curie Paris Campus.
The result of a unique and particularly elegant process for recording real colors, the collection of Lippmann plates from Sorbonne University constitutes the cornerstone of the “Museum of Color”.
A place for exploring knowledge open to all, a window on the academic research of the Alliance Sorbonne University
- exploration of color through multidisciplinary knowledge and scientific knowledge
- open to the city, to civil society, to the world
- thematic presentation to address scientific and societal questions
- exploration of themes at several levels, progressive, to allow everyone to explore freely, children and adults alike
- a place for the transmission and questioning of knowledge and research
A project structured around 3 devices
- physical device: the color museum
- virtual device: the website, a transmedia space
- traveling device: the traveling exhibition
A project of transmission, animation, training, research
- transmission of artistic, medical and scientific knowledge
- a general public window onto the world of research through the prism of color`
- entertainment venue for schools, groups, students
- training place for mediation and communication students
- training place for teachers
- conservation research, mediation research
- research on manufacturing techniques and production of new Lippmann plates
Permanent exhibition
A permanent exhibition that explores the theme of color through the prism of the history of science, art and medicine.
- exploring 7-10 color themes
- thematic presentation through history
- progressive discovery of content
- rhythm: renewal of a theme every 3 years, ideally by students or doctoral students training at the SU Alliance
Temporary exhibition
A space intended to enrich the permanent exhibition by offering a "step aside" on the theme of color: contemporary artist, related themes, news...
- Rhythm: 2 to 3 temporary exhibitions per year
- led by alliance training
- view of art on science, on color, on the museum on lippmann
- mediation training
- to invite artists to offer their view of the museum
- to explore a particular and complementary theme
- to train mediation students
- an ideal solution for displaying the Lippmann collection (for conservation reasons)
- an augmented museum, designed as a transmedia tool allowing rich multidimensional exploration
- a permanent database on the theme of color in research carried out at Sorbonne University
project function
- test and search for routes
- content archiving
- organization and research of content organization
- communication medium
public service
- augmented museum
- animation database
- training database
- communication tool: real museum visit, reservation, reservation of the traveling exhibition, events linked to the exhibition
- virtual Lippmann collection
- make the Lippmann collection and color themes accessible to all
- a communication tool for the color museum
- a way to renew and enrich the website's funds by promoting the events that accompany homelessness
The "Museum of color" is designed as a living device intended for a wide audience but also available to training students and primary and secondary school teachers.
To ensure the dynamism of the “museum of color”, that it attracts its public and meets its expectations,
So that our students' training is alive and benefits from this open-air laboratory at their disposal,
It is essential that the museum is constantly thought out, used and measured
By students who are training today for the exhibition and mediation professions of tomorrow.
- activities for schools
- training for teachers
- an experimental laboratory for Alliance SU students: in scientific mediation, animation, scenography, museography
- a research space on scientific mediation and communication
For example, for ASU students and doctoral candidates the space can be made available and/or managed by:
- learning about creation and animation
- consideration of the renewal of certain parts of the permanent exhibition
- creation of temporary exhibitions
- training in communication techniques and scientific mediation
- animation of museum networks by communication students (community management)
- etc.
Research and production of new interference plates in partnership with FabLab SU
- amateurs and fablab
- physics license training -> offer students the opportunity to validate their license with the reproduction of an experience that earned a former teacher the Nobel Prize -> poetic loop
Work in progress: the project as a mental map
