Unlocking private collections

The Musée d’Art Classique de Mougins (MACM) opened in June 2011.

The Mougins Museum is located in Mougins, one of the most picturesque villages in Provence and home to some of the greatest artists, as well as being a renowned culinary destination. Only 15 minutes from Cannes, the village of Mougins is a must-see destination nestled between sea and mountain on the Côte d’Azur.

Christian Levett chose this prestigious location to found a museum and share his extraordinary collection with the public.

Throughout the four floors of the museum, one can admire modern and contemporary artworks interspersed with Roman portrait statues and busts, Greek pottery and jewelry, Egyptian sarcophagi, reliefs and amulets.

The great masters of the 17th and 18th centuries interact with Picasso, Chagall, Braque, Matisse, Hirst, Gormley and Quinn... to name but a few.

 

Since the opening of the museum, the MACM has embraced digital technology and the benefits it can bring to the museum experience as a whole.

The museum is equipped with interactive touch screens throughout the galleries, which provide additional information and enrich the visit for adults and children alike.

When Google launched its Cultural Institute in Paris, we became a participating museum partner in 2012 of Google Art Project, now known as Google Arts & Culture. One can see a selection of art and artefacts from the collection and visit the galleries via ‘museum street view’ (see it here).

In 2017 we launched the application MACM4D - the interactive virtual museum. Thanks to this application, the visitor can enjoy the unique experience of the MACM with a virtual tour of exceptional quality – admiring the large array of artworks and 3D views of a selection of objects, zooming in on the smallest of details, created by the developer Navigator4D.
   

Since day 1 we continually strive to make the Mougins Museum accessible to all, regardless of age, knowledge or social status. Everyone should have equal access to our cultural heritage – our being the keyword. The right to discover and explore our cultural heritage, whether it is immovable or unmovable, is a privilege that should belong to each and every one of us. Unfortunately for numerous different reasons and practicalities, this is not always the case.

Digitizing museum collections, historical monuments and even underwater discoveries, opens up a whole new realm of possibilities, which overcome some of the obstacles that certain individuals amongst us are faced with.

In addition to my previous answer, this is a fun, creative and informative means of sharing the MACM collection with people wherever they may be around the world.

The 3D print-outs of our artefacts are also a very useful resource to have in the museum itself for our educational visits. Touch is one of the senses we are often restricted from experiencing in a museum visit. Thanks to these 3D printed replicas, young children or sight-impaired visitors can overcome their frustration of this restriction.