Present

"Gardens and Palaces of the Orient"

To be seen from December 14 to April 6, 2025

Are you an art lover? A garden lover? Or a travel lover? The exhibition "Gardens and Palaces of the Orient" is full of charm, embalms the sweet scent of the rose, reveals refinement and inscribes in eternity what is essentially ephemeral... A very beautiful proposition, born from an exceptional partnership between the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Var Department, to be discovered from December 14, 2024 to April 6, 2025.

What would you like the visitor to remember after visiting it? "That he felt like he had walked in a wonderful garden," spontaneously respond Farhad Kazemi, exhibition curator, heritage curator, in charge of the collections of medieval Iran in the Department of Islamic Arts at the Louvre Museum and Monique Buresi, associate curator, scientific documentalist in the Department of Islamic Arts at the Louvre Museum. An immersive exhibition? This is a first at the HDE Var. Also a first is this exceptional partnership with the Louvre Museum with more than 80% of the works coming from eight of its departments. As the main lender, its Department of Islamic Arts will showcase masterpieces from the permanent collections that have rarely been loaned.