Le Camp des Milles
Aix-en-Provence
Aix-en-Provence
Contest for the development of the Camp des Milles, which was home to so many people doomed to deportation and death.
Project
Le Camp des Milles
Location
13547 Aix-en-Provence, France
Category
Permanent exhibition
Opening
2006, Competition, Second Laureate
Commanditaire
La Fondation du Camp des Milles - Mémoire et Éducation
Surface m²
4.500 m2
Scenographic cost € HT
5.000.000 €
Scope of work
Technical management
Lighting design
Audiovisual and multimedia engineering
Show control
CFO/CFA
Partners
Scenography : Atelier Confino
Mandatory architect : Atelier Lion
Curator : Alain Chouraqui
Atelier Confino created a vibrant dialogue between the building itself (former Lafarge cement factory) and its tragic history. The Site-Memorial was conceived, mainly for young people, not only as a museum of history and a place of preserved memory, but also as a space of heritage and artistic culture and as a "museum of ideas", an innovative laboratory in its content as in its educational devices.
Thus, for the first time in the world, the Camp des Milles Memorial Site provides, on a place of remembrance, multidisciplinary reference points and keys to understanding that can help us to be vigilant and to react in time in the face of identity-based tensions and extremism.
Atelier Confino created a vibrant dialogue between the building itself (former Lafarge cement factory) and its tragic history.
The Site-Memorial was conceived, mainly for young people, not only as a museum of history and a place of preserved memory, but also as a space of heritage and artistic culture and as a "museum of ideas", an innovative laboratory in its content as in its educational devices.
Thus, for the first time in the world, the Camp des Milles Memorial Site provides, on a place of remembrance, multidisciplinary reference points and keys to understanding that can help us to be vigilant and to react in time in the face of identity-based tensions and extremism.
