The Camille Claudel museum located in Nogent-sur-Seine is innovating and attracting a new audience

These days, a museum isn't the first attraction a family would think of. However, these buildings occupy an important place in the artistic history and history of a country. This is why many museums are starting to innovate to attract a younger audience, as is the case with the Camille Claudel museum located in Nogent-sur-Seine.

Camille Claudel: un very contemporary museum

The general public is moving away and turning to concerts or cinemas. This is why today, a museum must innovate and attract the general public, as underlines Vincent Campredon, director of the National Maritime Museum in Paris.

“A museum’s mission is to preserve works. But today, he must speak to young people, be more welcoming, more collaborative. The public must be at the heart of our concerns. »

The management of the Camille Claudel museum is well aware of this fact. This is why it decided to innovate and set up attractions and events that target a younger, even very young, audience.

Whether it's fairs, tastings or even artistic workshops for children aged 3 to 7, the Camille Claudel museum has everything planned. For example, this Escape Game organized by the museum will be both informative and fun.

“*With the life-size investigation game “In the footsteps of Camille Claudel”, visitors will have to collect clues in the museum rooms to face a final test!

Accessible from 10 years old, this unique and fun experience allows you to learn more about the museum's collections and share a memorable moment with family or friends.* »

The management of the museum dedicated to the French sculptor has also decided to organize tastings accompanied by an artistic presentation.

One Thursday per month, from April to October, museum mediators and local producers join forces to offer tasting tours to the public. After a thirty-minute presentation around a work or an artist, the public can go to the auditorium to taste wine, champagne, cider or even gin.

Camille Claudel: an artist lost in history

Camille Claudel is not a very famous artist, like many other artists. It was only thanks to a book, then a film released towards the end of the 1900s which dealt with her life, that the sculptor's works were rediscovered.

The artist was born on December 8, 1864. Thanks to her early talent for sculpture and her father's insight, the young girl was able to express her talent with Auguste Rodin and Alfred Boucher.

Unfortunately, sculpture does not make money, as pointed out Émile Zola :

“Ah! what a dog this sculpture is! The last of the masons was happier […]. The noblest of arts, the most virile, yes, but the art from which we were most surely starving. »

This quote is also posted on the official website of the Camille Claudel museum.

Camille ends up having a relationship with her master Auguste Rodin, then they separate, and the sculptor ends up being interned in a psychiatric hospital where she dies anonymously.