Golden thread - The art of dressing from north Africa to the far east
From 11 February to 6 July 2025
From the Maghreb to Japan, a fabulous journey through time and space, discovering the mysterious and fascinating origins of gold and its marriage with the textile arts.
The world's most precious and noble metal, an object of envy, a symbol of wealth and splendour, a sign of elegance and refinement... Discovered nearly 7,000 years ago, gold has never ceased to fascinate mankind. The ultimate material for all kinds of expertise, experimentation and tradition, it has been used since antiquity to make jewellery, ornaments and weapons. As early as the fifth millennium B.C., it was used to embellish the first luxury fabrics for men of power. Over the centuries that followed, skilled weavers and craftsmen Roman, Byzantine, Chinese, Persian and then Muslim used the most ingenious techniques to create veritable fabrics of art where silk or linen fibres were intertwined with gold threads and strips.



Tarō Okamoto, Reinventing Japan
From 15 April to 7 September 2025
The exhibition highlights one of the central figures of the Japanese avant-garde, little known in France: the multidisciplinary artist Tarō Okamoto.
Tarō Okamoto (1911–1996) was a Japanese painter, sculptor, muralist, photographer, writer and researcher. Arriving in Paris in 1929, he gravitated towards the abstract and surrealist movements, and in 1938 trained with Marcel Mauss and Paul Rivet in the ethnology laboratory of the Musée de l'Homme. At the same time, he became close to Georges Bataille and joined the Acéphale secret society. He left France in 1940 to return to Japan, where within a decade he would become one of the central figures of the artistic avant-garde, federating several discussion groups in a country that was rebuilding itself.