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Exhibitions
From 09/20/2025 to 09/13/2026
In 1925, the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts consecrated and baptised a style that had already - over a few years - made a name for itself: Art Deco. For the first time in the history of international exhibitions, garden art was also on the agenda, around twenty fleeting gardens punctuating the visit.
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Exhibitions
From 11/21/2025 to 04/12/2026
Historic gardens were not only symbols of power, culture and elegance, but also propaganda tools for the popes, princes and cardinals who owned them. This exhibition retraces their history up to their transformation into public parks ‘for the pleasure of the people’.
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Exhibitions
From 02/11/2026 to 05/10/2026
Discover the relationship between John Bradby Blake (1745-1773), an English botanist who worked as a supercargo for the East India Company in the 1770s, his Chinese interlocutor Whang At Tong 黃遏東, and the botanical artists Bradby Blake commissioned to document plants native to Canton.
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Symposiums
From 03/11/2026 to 03/12/2026
Despite a considerable number of mentions by gardeners, landscapers and historians, information on ‘our’ La Quintinie is scarce and inconsistent. His unique printed work - the Instruction - together with his only garden that continues to this day to be cultivated - the King’s Kitchen Garden - are the only solid references that remain at present.
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Conferences
03/18/2026
Every year, in a political aim to encourage and support young researchers, the INHA (French National Institute for Art History) invites a research collective to propose a creative scientific project in a field related to the history of art. The Studio XIX association is the tenth collective to be hosted by the INHALab.
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Study days
04/17/2026
As a natural extension to the L’Oise des Jardins exhibition, Creators and Creations (1600-1920), and the eponymous publication, the departmental archives hope to initiate dialogue between disciplines so as to highlight the relevance of archives in the study of gardens and contemporary considerations on their conservation, be they associated with heritage, the environment or purely aesthetic.
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Conferences
05/23/2026
Immediately to the south of the Grand-Site de France Les Deux-Caps - property of the Coastal Conservancy - Pointe de la Crèche is a strategic ecological landscape zone offering exceptional panoramic views, shaped by a delicate balance between natural spaces and the urban influence of Wimereux and Boulogne-sur-Mer.
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