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Its architecture, its museum, its collections, its spaces... To find out everything there is to know about this multi-faceted cultural site, our mediation team offers a variety of tour options, depending on your interests, your projects or your group's expectations.
The choice is yours!
Sport, for the beauty of the gesture
January 27 > May 12, 2024
15 people maximum
Duration: 1h30
Price: €150
To kick off this Olympic year in style, Les Franciscaines presents the exhibition Sport, for the beauty of the gesture, an exploration of the sporting gesture in its physical, technical and spiritual dimensions.
An expression of the athlete's genius, the grammar of the sporting gesture has always been a source of inspiration for artists, between power and mastery, grace and performance. The exhibition reveals the aesthetics of the gesture that strives for perfection through eight sporting disciplines: tennis, soccer, rugby, boxing, high jump, diving, archery and running.
Léo Caillard, Neon Discobolus, 2017, Collection of the artist
Zao Wou-Ki - The alleys of another world
March 2 > May 26, 2024
15 people maximum
Duration: 1h30
Price: €180
Les Franciscaines is privileged to host an exceptional monographic exhibition dedicated to the work of Zao Wou-Ki (1920-2013). This Chinese-born artist, who became French in 1964, charted a unique artistic course, navigating between the tradition of his native country and Western modernity, before finally finding a new, liberated and free path.
Entitled Zao Wou-Ki - Les allées d'un autre monde, this exhibition explores Zao Wou-Ki's artistic freedom through the diversity of plastic and intellectual expressions he explored throughout his life. The tour reveals a diversity of mediums, encompassing paintings, watercolors, inks, prints, tapestries, porcelain, steles, books of poetry, as well as an imposing mural over sixteen meters long, commissioned by the French government for the collège L'Herminier in La Seyne-sur-Mer, built by architect Roger Taillibert.
Zao Wou-Ki, Hommage à Françoise - 23.10.2003 - Triptych (detail), 2003, Private collection
The Franciscan story
All year round
25 people maximum
Duration: 1 hour
Price: €150
To discover Les Franciscaines, its past and its collections, is to discover a part of Deauville's history. A 150-year leap back in time will plunge you into the construction site of what was then an orphanage. With a little imagination, you'll hear the nuns praying the psalms in the cloister garden.
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Want to learn more about Deauville, art or literature? The mediation department offers one-hour lectures on a variety of themes.
The history of Deauville through women
50 people maximum
Duration: 1 hour
Price: €180 / 25 people
From Sophie Arnould to Anne d'Ornano, from Princess Troubetzkoï to Baroness d'Erlanger, discover the women who have left a lasting or fleeting mark on Deauville's history. Whether you're an express visitor or a regular visitor, Emmanuel Causse, cultural mediator at Les Franciscaines, will unravel the threads of Deauville's untold history.
Frères Séeberger, Fères, Mlle Suzy Solidor, Deauville, August 1927, vintage silver print
Journey to imperial Deauville
50 people maximum
Duration: 1 hour
Price: €180 / 25 people
In 1859, Deauville was just a modest village of 110 inhabitants on Mont Canisy. Six years later, that number had increased tenfold. Emmanuel Causse, cultural mediator at Les Franciscaines, takes you on a journey back in time to understand how, in just a few years, a deserted marshland became the summer resort of the imperial aristocracy.
Portrait of the Duc de Morny, undated, painting
Deauville's golden age: pleasures and extravagance in theheart ofthe Roaring Twenties
50 people maximum
Duration: 1 hour
Price: €180 / 25 people
A veritable object of fascination, synonymous with pleasure, elegance and cosmopolitan money, Deauville became a fixture on the social calendar after the First World War. Celebrities, industrialists, aristocrats, artists and adventurers gathered for a few weeks in a neo-Norman setting that reflected a century in turmoil. Emmanuel Causse, cultural mediator, takes you back a century to the extravagant Deauville of the Roaring Twenties.
SEM (dit), Goursat Georges, Deux hommes dansan, 1927, Stencil on paper
Animals and men, iconography of a dialogue of species
50 people maximum
Duration: 1 hour
Price: €180
From Aesop to George Orwell and La Fontaine, from St. Francis preaching to birds to Bosch's chimeras, from the serpent of Genesis to Jonathan Swift's Houyhnhnms, literature and the arts in its wake give animals a special place. Cultural mediator Sébastien Boulais takes you on a journey along the path of artists who dialogue with animals.
George Arsenius, Portrait of a Horse (detail), 1892, oil on canvas
Dreams of the ideal in art and literature
50 people maximum
Duration: 1 hour
Price: €180
Cultural mediator Sébastien Boulais takes you to Arcadia, Babel or Utopia. Numerous sculptures have created dream lands, distant in time or space, where social harmony and infinite peace reign. This imaginary world gave rise to literary and then architectural projects, especially in the 17th and 19th centuries, and the water cities of the Côte fleurie are an excellent example of this translation of an age-old ideal into stone.
Filip Dujardin, D'ville, 2021, print on paper
From Walpole to Murnau: how the Gothic shaped our fears
50 people maximum
Duration: 1 hour
Price: €180
The Gothic is a British and then American literary genre that has had a profound influence on the fantastic imagination. From literature, it's a movement that has blossomed in painting and sculpture, and been sublimated in cinema: Expressionism, Universal monsters, Hitchcock and many more inherit this distant ancestor, which Sébastien Boulais, cultural mediator, will help you (re)discover.
Nadine Jestin, 2020, digital photograph (detail)
The Franciscaines Fablab is a local manufacturing laboratory open to all, providing access to digital manufacturing tools (3D printer, laser cutter, digital embroidery machine, etc.) and a gateway to the world of "making".
Come and discover the Fablab and its various machines. Then use the laser cutter or cutting plotter to create a personalized object in wood or sticker. Discover the creative process from the computer to the finished product.
All year round
10 participants maximum
Duration: 1h30
Price: €150
Surrounded by encyclopedias, novels, games and literary quizzes, around a large sharing table (forty place settings) or on the south-facing terrace, Le Réfectoire welcomes you to continue your discovery of Les Franciscaines with a gourmet break and "light, cultural catering". Tray service ensures speed and conviviality at lunchtime and with snacks during the day. Conviviality and gourmet delights are the order of the day.
Guided tours are available from Tuesday to Sunday, 10.30am to 5pm, upon request and prior registration (and depending on the availability of our mediators).
Each tour begins with an introduction to the history of the site and the Franciscans' cultural project.
Welcome
The mediator waits for the group at the meeting point. If after 15 minutes the group has not shown up, or has not informed us of their lateness, the visit remains due. In the event of late arrival, the visit may be shortened by the duration of the delay.
Tour conditions
Mediators adapt the tour to suit your interests. You can also bring your own tour guide (see terms and conditions). Our tours are guided in French or English.
Visitors are equipped with audiophones. Audiophones must be reserved in advance by groups coming with their own guide. There is a charge of 2 euros for the use of these devices if they are not used by Franciscan staff.
Customers must comply with Les Franciscaines' rules and regulations, and with any instructions issued by the establishment.
For security reasons, backpacks must be left in your vehicle or deposited in the lockers provided at the entrance.
Accessibility
The facility is fully accessible to people with reduced mobility. An elevator provides access to both floors.
Reservation
In order to define and fine-tune your needs for the visit and the terms and conditions of your visit, your request must be sent 1 month before your visit by e-mail to mediation@lesfranciscaines.fr
Cancellation / modification
Up to 72 hours before the date of your visit, you can cancel all booked services, excluding catering, by e-mail, free of charge.
Please refer to the general terms and conditions for further details.