32nd European Heritage Days at the UM
A major cultural event at the start of the academic year, the European Heritage Days attract an ever-growing number of visitors, curious to discover prestigious sites steeped in history.
This year, the 32e edition focuses on "Heritage in the 21st century". On Saturday September 19 and Sunday September 20, the public will have the opportunity to discover the UM's rich heritage through tours and conferences.
Self-guided tour of the building
Since 1795, the Faculty of Medicine has been housed in the former episcopal palace, formerly the Saint Benoit and Saint Germain monastery, and includes an anatomy amphitheater and an anatomy conservatory. The complex is listed as a historic monument and houses prestigious medical and artistic collections.
Opening hours: 9:30am - 12:30pm and 2pm - 5:30pm.
2, rue Ecole de médecine.
Conferences in the Salle des Actes
- The multiple lives of manuscripts: from parchment to digital / September 19 / 2:30 - 3:30 pm
Speakers: Hélène Lorblanchet and Pascaline Todeschini, library curators
- Works from the University of Montpellier's 1% art program / September 19 / 3:30 - 4:30 pm
After a presentation of the 1% artistic program and its implications for the UM campus, the discussion will focus on the richness and issues of this program.
Speakers: Catherine Dumon, DRAC plastic arts advisor, and the Microclimax collective;
- Op'art invites itself to the University of Montpellier: focus on the project to restore a work by Yaacov Agam / September 19 / 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Op'art, which emerged in the 1950s, is an artistic movement with special links to science (optical illusions, perception games, etc.)
Speakers: Marie Dominique Bidard, art teacher and Noémie Miralles, museum collections manager;
- Innovation, robotics and medicine/ September 20/ Salle des actes / 11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
Speakers: François Bonnel, professor emeritus and Christophe Bonnel, physician;
- Contemporary Scientific and Technical Heritage / September 20 / 2:30 - 3:30 pm
The PATSTEC mission, led by the CNAM, aims to safeguard and promote the scientific and technical heritage of the future.
Speakers: Françoise Olivier, in charge of promoting historical heritage, and Audrey Théron, head of the PATSTEC mission.
Films in the anatomy amphitheatre
- Le mystère des momies d'Antinoé (arte): the story of the mummies at the Anatomy Conservatory.
- Presentation of the Anatomy Conservatory.
39, rue de l'Université
Guided tours on September 19
(2 visits in the morning / 2 visits in the afternoon) from 9am to 5pm
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Boulevard Henri IV
Themed tours on September 19
- Remarkable plants by Didier Morisot at 11:15 a.m. and 2 p.m.
- Les grands arbres du Jardin by Régis Meuzeret at 2:30pm and 4:30pm.
- The Jardin des Plantes, heritage of the 21st century by Daniel Jarry at 11 am.
- Busts and the Systematic School by Emmanuel spicq at 11:30 a.m., 3:00 p.m. and 4:55 p.m.
- The Jardin des Plantes, heritage of the 21st century by Thierry Lavabre-Bertrand at 3:30pm.
- The Martins greenhouse and succulent plants: their biology and geographical origins by François Georges at 10:30 am and 2:15 pm.
Registration on site the same day - 25 people maximum per group (15 for the Martins greenhouse visit).
Open house September 20
From 12h to 20h.
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3, Place du 14 juillet - Béziers
Exhibitions / guided tours 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Vibrations in the gardens of the world
Shimmy Shimmy Belly is a 1% Net-Art work, a virtual garden that changes in real time according to weather data collected around the world. A digital art expert will explain the interactive aspects of this work created by the Qubo Gas collective, and situate it in the context of contemporary digital creation.
- Like a Lego with memory
Together with the departments and laboratories of the University of Montpellier, the Béziers IUT has patiently gathered together computer data storage media and some mysterious scientific objects. An exhibition on computer memory.
- Towards a 3rd generation campus
Béziers IUT is located on the Place 14 Juillet. It was once the Champ de Mars. This multimedia exhibition offers a pictorial history of the site: the construction of the IUT in timelapse on screen. When the applied art of 3D virtual worlds meets research...
Works by Adrien Gomez, associate professor.
Sète Marine Station
Lecture and open house on September 19 at 9:30, 11 a.m. and 12:30 p.m.
- Marine life, a heritage to be preserved in the 21st century and enhanced for cultural and economic development.
The art of knowledge: medieval manuscripts from Clairvaux to Montpellier" exhibition
The 32nd edition of the European Heritage Days will also mark the start of a new exhibition organized at the University Library of Medicine from September 19 to October 31, entitled "L'art du savoir: manuscrits médiévaux de Clairvaux à Montpellier" (The art of knowledge: medieval manuscripts from Clairvaux to Montpellier).
The exhibition invites visitors to discover why, seven centuries apart, the abbots of Clairvaux and Gabriel Prunelle, librarian of Montpellier's Faculty of Medicine in the early 19th century, chose to honor the same precious documents for their community.
A selection of these manuscripts is presented, demonstrating both the variety of subjects dealt with and the monks' ambition to bring together all kinds of knowledge.
Exhibition rooms of the University Library of Medicine.
Free admission on September 19 and 20, from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm and from 2 pm to 5:30 pm.