32nd European Heritage Days at UM
A major cultural event marking the start of the academic year, European Heritage Days attract an ever-growing audience eager to explore prestigious sites steeped in history.
This year marks the 32nde This year’s edition highlights “21st-Century Heritage.” It offers the general public an opportunity to discover the University of Montreal’s rich heritage through tours and lectures on Saturday, September 19, and Sunday, September 20.
Self-guided tour of the building
Housed since 1795 in the former episcopal palace—previously the Monastery of Saints Benedict and Germain—the Faculty of Medicine includes an anatomy lecture hall and an Anatomy Museum. The complex is designated a historic monument and houses prestigious medical and artistic collections.
Hours: 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
2 Ecole de médecine Street.
Lectures in the Salle des Actes
- The Many Lives of Manuscripts: From Parchment to Digital / September 19 / 2:30–3:30 p.m.
Speakers: Hélène Lorblanchet and Pascaline Todeschini, library curators
- Artworks from the University of Montpellier’s “1% Art” program / September 19 / 3:30–4:30 p.m.
Following a presentation on the “1% Artistic” initiative and its impact on the UM campus, a discussion will take place on the benefits and challenges of this program.
Speakers: Catherine Dumon, visual arts advisor at DRAC, and the Microclimax collective;
- Op Art Comes to the University of Montpellier: A Look at the Restoration Project for a Work by Yaacov Agam / September 19 / 4:30–5:30 p.m.
Emerging in the 1950s, Op Art is an artistic movement with close ties to science (optical illusions, perceptual effects, etc.)
Speakers: Marie Dominique Bidard, art teacher, and Noémie Miralles, museum collections curator;
- Innovation, Robotics, and Medicine / September 20 / Auditorium / 11:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Speakers: François Bonnel, professor emeritus, and Christophe Bonnel, physician;
- Contemporary Scientific and Technical Heritage / September 20 / 2:30–3:30 p.m.
The PATSTEC initiative, led by the CNAM, aims to preserve and promote the scientific and technical heritage of the future.
Speakers: Françoise Olivier, Head of Historical Heritage Promotion, and Audrey Théron, Head of the PATSTEC initiative.
Movies in the anatomy lecture hall
- The Mystery of the Mummies of Antinoe (Arte): The Story of the Mummies at the Anatomical Museum.
- Introduction to the Anatomy Museum.
39 University Street
Guided tours on September 19
(2 tours in the morning / 2 tours in the afternoon) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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Henri IV Boulevard
Themed tours on September 19
- "Remarkable Plants" by Didier Morisot at 11:15 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.
- "The Tall Trees of the Garden " by Régis Meuzeret at 2:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.
- "The Jardin des Plantes: A 21st-Century Heritage Site " by Daniel Jarry at 11 a.m.
- "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: A 21st-Century Heritage Site " by Thierry Lavabre-Bertrand at 3:30 p.m.
- The Martins Greenhouse and Succulents: Their Biology and Geographic Origins, presented by François Georges at 10:30 a.m. and 2:15 p.m.
On-site registration on the day of the tour – maximum of 25 people per group (15 for the tour of the Martins Greenhouse).
Self-guided tour on September 20
From noon to 8 p.m.
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3, Place du 14 Juillet – Béziers
Exhibitions / guided tours from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
- Vibrations in Gardens Around the World
Shimmy Shimmy Belly is a 1% Net-Art piece, a virtual garden that changes in real time based on weather data collected from around the world. A digital art expert will explain the interactive aspects of this work, created by the Qubo Gas collective, and place it within the context of contemporary digital art.
- Like a Lego with a memory
In collaboration with the departments and laboratories of the University of Montpellier, the Béziers University Institute of Technology has painstakingly assembled a collection of computer hardware used for data storage and a few mysterious scientific artifacts. An exhibition on computer memory.
- Toward a third-generation campus
The Béziers University Institute of Technology (IUT) is located on Place du 14 Juillet. There was a time when this was known as the Champ de Mars. This multimedia exhibition presents a visual history of the site, including a time-lapse video of the IUT’s construction displayed on screen. When the applied art of 3D virtual worlds meets research…
Works by Adrien Gomez, associate professor.
Sète Marine Station
Lecture and self-guided tour on September 19 at 9:30 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 12:30 p.m.
- Marine life: a heritage to be preserved in the 21st century and harnessed for cultural and economic development.
Exhibition: “The Art of Knowledge: Medieval Manuscripts from Clairvaux to Montpellier”
The32nd edition of European Heritage Days will also mark the opening of a new exhibition at the University Medical Library from September 19 to October 31, titled “The Art of Knowledge: Medieval Manuscripts from Clairvaux to Montpellier.”
An exhibition that invites visitors to discover why, seven centuries apart, the abbots of Clairvaux and Gabriel Prunelle—librarian at the Faculty of Medicine in Montpellier in the early 19th century—chose to highlight the same precious documents for their respective communities.
It presents a selection of these manuscripts that illustrates both the variety of subjects covered and the monks’ ambition to compile all knowledge.
Exhibition halls at the University Medical Library.
Free admission on September 19 and 20 from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and from 2:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.