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Entrée libre, jusqu'au 17 octobre.","2026-09-23T16:00:00+00:00","2026-10-17T15:00:00+00:00",null,"Gratuit",true,"https:\u002F\u002Frxpslhyadfopswypqcpv.supabase.co\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Fvenue-photos\u002Fpropositions\u002Fmacula-nigra\u002Fthe-yellow-grid-visuel-officiel.jpg","Visuel : Macula Nigra, The Yellow Grid \u002F Maison Graphique","https:\u002F\u002Fmaison-graphique.fr","published","expo","Le sérigraphe rennais Macula Nigra croise monotype et sérigraphie dans une série d'œuvres graphiques, à voir gratuitement jusqu'au 17 octobre.","gratuit","periode",[24,28,32,34],{"fin":25,"jour":26,"debut":27},"17:00",3,"14:00",{"fin":29,"jour":30,"debut":31},"18:00",4,"16:00",{"fin":29,"jour":33,"debut":31},5,{"fin":25,"jour":35,"debut":27},6,false,[38],{"name":39,"slug":40,"about":41,"liens":42,"style":44,"nature":45,"origine":46},"Macula Nigra","macula-nigra","Sérigraphe basé à Rennes, diplômé des Beaux-Arts de Rennes, membre du collectif Le Marché Noir, un atelier partagé de dix-sept membres autour des arts imprimés, et de l'atelier La Presse Purée. Il compose des univers utopiques par le collage, entre architecture, graphisme et procédés d'impression. Invité au Mans une première fois pour le RisoCrew au Créa'Lab, il revient avec « The Yellow Grid », sa première exposition personnelle.",{"site":43},"https:\u002F\u002Fmaculanigra.tumblr.com\u002F","sérigraphie, collage","artiste","Rennes","Maison Graphique invite l'artiste et sérigraphe rennais Macula Nigra, membre de l'atelier Le Marché Noir, pour « The Yellow Grid », sa première exposition : une série d'œuvres graphiques nées du croisement du monotype et de la sérigraphie. Le vernissage a eu lieu le mercredi 23 septembre en présence de l'artiste ; l'exposition se visite jusqu'au 17 octobre, les jeudis et vendredis de 16 h à 18 h et les mercredis et samedis de 14 h à 17 h. Entrée libre.\n\n« The Yellow Grid » est né d'une série de compositions hybrides, moyen et grand format, réalisées entre 2025 et 2026 : un travail de composition par collage qui mêle sérigraphie et monotype. À la manière du sampling musical, l'artiste puise dans son propre répertoire de signes, de formes et de contre-formes pour créer ses collages sur papier fluo, et s'amuse à combiner et superposer les techniques.\n\nEn résidence à l'atelier riso_éticc en juillet 2026, une semaine en pleine canicule, Macula Nigra a expérimenté de nouveaux gestes, tout en risographie analogique : le scanner du duplicopieur devient un outil à part entière, le papier imprimé ou vierge est froissé, plié, superposé, ajusté à la grille ; un bac plié et la lumière du scanner suffisent à obtenir un dégradé. Monotypes et macules sérigraphiques sont remixés dans une micro-édition « The Yellow Grid », numérotée à 50 exemplaires et imprimée en une à quatre couleurs sur papier Extra Rough 200 g, dont 25 sont disponibles à la Maison Graphique.\n\nDans les pochettes présentées à côté des monotypes, un travail plus figuratif, né du même geste de collage : les deux approches se répondent. L'exposition s'inscrit dans la France Design Week 2026 ; les programmes des autres lieux manceaux sont à disposition à l'entrée.\n\nLes encres fluo réagissent à la lumière noire : à la nuit tombée, une minuterie éclaire la vitrine du 90 rue Nationale, et l'exposition se lit autrement depuis la rue. Sortir au Mans était au vernissage : le récit de la soirée est à lire dans la rubrique Actualités.","Maison Graphique × atelier riso_éticc","Lieu dédié aux arts graphiques ouvert en 2025 au 90 rue Nationale, dans la continuité de l'atelier de risographie riso_éticc, présent au Mans depuis cinq ans (place d'Alger, puis Créa'Lab). Résidences de création, expositions avec un temps de médiation pour les scolaires, formations à la micro-édition, et à peu près un atelier d'initiation à la risographie par mois : le matin en duo parent-enfant, l'après-midi tout public à partir de 10 ans.",[51,52],"sérigraphie","arts graphiques",{"theme":54,"temps_forts":55},"Monotype et sérigraphie, une micro-édition inédite imprimée en risographie lors d'une résidence avec l'atelier riso_éticc",[56],"Vernissage le mercredi 23 septembre à 18h, en présence de l'artiste",{"icon":58,"name":59,"slug":60,"color":61,"traductions":62},"palette","Expos & Musées","expos","#0F766E",{"en-US":63},{"_h":64,"name":65},"ea75133f23544389","Exhibits & Museums",{"lat":67,"lng":68,"city":69,"name":70,"slug":71,"address":72,"logo_url":73,"image_url":74,"traductions":75},47.998381,0.20027,"Le Mans","Maison Graphique","maison-graphique-le-mans","90 rue Nationale","https:\u002F\u002Frxpslhyadfopswypqcpv.supabase.co\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Fevent-images\u002Flogos\u002Fmaison-graphique-le-mans.png","https:\u002F\u002Frxpslhyadfopswypqcpv.supabase.co\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Fvenue-photos\u002Fpropositions\u002F9525a8e2-5c67-42d1-8541-df7dadd7cd60\u002F1-e92umu.jpg",{"en-US":76},{"_h":77,"history":78,"practical":79,"description":86,"description_long":87},"9d8d352fb8e91aa9","The riso_éticc risograph workshop was founded in Le Mans in 2021, on place d'Alger, then moved to the Créa'Lab. Gwenaëlle, who prints artists' projects there, comes from public and cultural communications, a field she has worked in for nearly twenty years. That is where the RisoCrew begins: each year, artists from Le Mans and from another city, Brussels, Nantes, and then Rennes, are invited to produce an image and put together a group exhibition for one evening.\n\nIn 2025, the workshop moved to 90 rue Nationale and became the Maison Graphique, a place with a storefront, open to the public. The second season opens on September 23, 2026 with \"The Yellow Grid,\" the first solo exhibition by Rennes-based artist Macula Nigra, whom the RisoCrew met two years earlier, along with a micro-publication printed on site during a July residency.",{"bus":80,"tram":81,"acces":82,"parking":83,"horaires":84,"acces_sources":85},"Line 5 — La Fuie stop, 50 m · wheelchair-accessible stop","T1, T2 — Préfecture stop, 350 m · wheelchair-accessible stop","Accessible to people with reduced mobility; entrance through the storefront at 90 rue Nationale","Parking right in front: Rabelais (paid, 92 spaces, underground)","During exhibitions: Wednesday and Saturday 2–5 PM, Thursday and Friday 4–6 PM; workshops by online registration","Data: SETRAM \u002F Le Mans Métropole (GTFS, Open Licence), © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL)","Cultural venue dedicated to graphic arts on rue Nationale in Le Mans: an exhibition space, a creative and printing workshop using risograph printing (riso_éticc), and an education and outreach space. It hosts temporary exhibitions by invited artists, risograph introductory workshops for families and school groups, micro-publishing training, and a shared workspace for creatives.","La Maison Graphique is a space dedicated to graphic arts, opened in 2025 at 90 rue Nationale: a street-facing storefront, an exhibition space, a risograph printing workshop, and an education and outreach space, open to everyone, including people with reduced mobility.\n\nThe idea behind the place has two parts. Creative residencies, in which an invited artist spends a week working with the workshop's duplicator and scanner; then exhibitions built around an aesthetic \"you don't see everywhere,\" on the edge of abstraction, photography, typography, and color work. Each exhibition comes with an education session: school classes come to see the show and then learn risograph printing.\n\nAlongside the exhibitions, the workshop offers micro-publishing training and, about once a month, a risograph introductory workshop with online registration: in the morning a parent-and-child session, in the afternoon open to all from age 10. The RisoCrew also gathers a small group on Tuesday evenings, ten sessions from late September to early December, to learn the technique over time. Dates are posted on the Maison Graphique website and Instagram.\n\nDuring exhibitions, the storefront also comes alive at night: fluorescent inks react to black light, and a timer switches it on at nightfall.",{"venue":89},{"id":90,"slug":71,"name":70,"address":72,"postal_code":91,"city":69,"description":92,"website":17,"location":93,"created_at":94,"lng":68,"lat":67,"contact_email":12,"email_source":12,"image_url":74,"image_credit":95,"kind":96,"practical":97,"description_long":104,"history":105,"plan_url":12,"contact_emails":12,"plan_credit":12,"socials":106,"logo_url":73,"logo_source":17,"logo_on_dark":36,"dossier":12,"dossier_sources":108,"dossier_maj":12,"instagram_handle":109,"partenaire_niveau":110,"traductions":111},"e552620b-e0b5-44e4-b747-0289515be0ef","72000","Lieu culturel consacré aux arts graphiques, rue Nationale au Mans : à la fois espace d'exposition, atelier de création et d'impression en risographie (riso_éticc) et lieu de médiation. Il accueille des expositions temporaires d'artistes invités, des ateliers d'initiation à la risographie pour les familles et les scolaires, des formations à la micro-édition et un espace de travail partagé pour les créatifs.","0101000020E61000008A592F8672A2C93F51F9D7F2CAFF4740","2026-09-18T11:12:52.119741+00:00","Photo : Maison Graphique","autre",{"bus":98,"tram":99,"acces":100,"parking":101,"horaires":102,"acces_sources":103},"Ligne 5 — arrêt La Fuie, 50 m · arrêt accessible en fauteuil","T1, T2 — arrêt Préfecture, 350 m · arrêt accessible en fauteuil","Accessible aux personnes à mobilité réduite ; entrée par la vitrine du 90 rue Nationale","Parking juste devant : Rabelais (payant, 92 places, souterrain)","Pendant les expositions : mercredi et samedi 14 h - 17 h, jeudi et vendredi 16 h - 18 h ; ateliers sur inscription en ligne","Données : SETRAM \u002F Le Mans Métropole (GTFS, Licence Ouverte), © contributeurs OpenStreetMap (ODbL)","La Maison Graphique est un lieu dédié aux arts graphiques, ouvert en 2025 au 90 rue Nationale : une vitrine sur la rue, un espace d'exposition, un atelier d'impression en risographie et un espace de médiation, accessibles à tous, y compris aux personnes à mobilité réduite.\n\nL'idée du lieu tient en deux temps. Des résidences de création, où un artiste invité vient travailler une semaine avec le duplicopieur et le scanner de l'atelier ; puis des expositions autour d'une esthétique « qu'on ne voit pas forcément partout », à la frontière de l'abstraction, de la photographie, de la typographie et du travail de la couleur. Chaque exposition s'accompagne d'un temps de médiation : les classes viennent voir l'accrochage puis s'initient à la risographie.\n\nÀ côté des expositions, l'atelier propose des formations à la micro-édition et, à peu près une fois par mois, un atelier d'initiation à la risographie sur inscription en ligne : le matin en duo parent-enfant, l'après-midi tout public à partir de 10 ans. Le RisoCrew réunit aussi un petit groupe le mardi soir, dix séances de fin septembre à début décembre, pour apprendre la technique dans la durée. Les dates sont publiées sur le site et l'Instagram de la Maison Graphique.\n\nPendant les expositions, la vitrine vit aussi la nuit : les encres fluo réagissent à la lumière noire, et une minuterie l'allume à la nuit tombée.","L'atelier de risographie riso_éticc naît au Mans en 2021, place d'Alger, puis au Créa'Lab. Gwenaëlle, qui y imprime les projets d'artistes, vient de la communication publique et culturelle, un métier exercé depuis bientôt vingt ans. C'est de là que part le RisoCrew : chaque année, des artistes du Mans et d'une autre ville, Bruxelles, Nantes puis Rennes, sont invités à produire une image et à monter une exposition collective le temps d'une soirée.\n\nEn 2025, l'atelier s'installe au 90 rue Nationale et devient la Maison Graphique, un lieu avec vitrine, ouvert au public. La deuxième saison s'ouvre le 23 septembre 2026 avec « The Yellow Grid », première exposition personnelle du Rennais Macula Nigra, rencontré deux ans plus tôt grâce au RisoCrew, et une micro-édition imprimée sur place lors d'une résidence en juillet.",{"instagram":107},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.instagram.com\u002Fmaisongraphique.lemans\u002F",[],"maisongraphique.lemans",0,{"en-US":112},{"_h":77,"history":78,"practical":113,"description":86,"description_long":87},{"bus":80,"tram":81,"acces":82,"parking":83,"horaires":84,"acces_sources":85},[115,152,188,256],{"id":116,"slug":117,"title":118,"description":119,"starts_at":120,"ends_at":121,"occurrences":12,"price_text":13,"is_free":36,"image_url":122,"image_credit":12,"external_url":123,"status":18,"type":12,"accroche":12,"tarif":12,"prix_min":12,"prix_max":12,"reservation":12,"etat":12,"forme":12,"horaires":12,"sans_heure":36,"performers":12,"traductions":124,"category":132,"venue":135},"0f75a873-5fb5-4464-9a95-ac9a126a74a9","peindre-la-lumiere-vitrail-sarthe","Peindre la lumière. Le vitrail en Sarthe, 19e-21e siècles","Exposition retraçant l'épopée du vitrail en Sarthe depuis sa redécouverte au XIXe siècle jusqu'aux créations contemporaines, avec des œuvres de Maurice Denis, Auguste Alleaume, Gabriel Loire et Max Ingrand, au Musée Jean-Claude Boulard - Carré Plantagenêt.","2026-01-23T09:00:00+00:00","2026-10-31T17:00:00+00:00","https:\u002F\u002Frxpslhyadfopswypqcpv.supabase.co\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Fevent-images\u002Fpeindre-la-lumiere-vitrail-sarthe.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.lemans.fr\u002Fmes-activites\u002Fculture\u002Fles-musees",{"en-US":125},{"_h":126,"title":127,"price_text":128,"description":129,"organizer_about":130,"description_long":131},"53ec44601491cdd3","Painting the Light: Stained Glass in the Sarthe, 19th–21st Centuries","Free","An exhibition tracing the story of stained glass in the Sarthe, from its rediscovery in the 19th century to contemporary creations, with works by Maurice Denis, Auguste Alleaume, Gabriel Loire and Max Ingrand, at the Musée Jean-Claude Boulard – Carré Plantagenêt.","The Le Mans museums, run by the City of Le Mans, bring together the Musée Jean-Claude Boulard - Carré Plantagenêt (archaeology and history) and the Musée de Tessé (fine arts). Year-round, they offer a permanent collection and temporary exhibitions devoted to the heritage of the Sarthe.","The Musée Jean-Claude Boulard – Carré Plantagenêt is hosting a temporary exhibition on stained glass in the Sarthe, from the 19th to the 21st century. The story begins in the mid-19th century, when the restoration of the Le Mans cathedral's stained-glass windows rediscovered the techniques of medieval master glassmakers. Le Mans then became one of France's leading capitals of painted glass, a craft that spread well beyond the Sarthe and beyond France's borders.\n\nOrganized in five sections, the exhibition highlights the great figures of Sarthe stained glass as well as the contemporary artists who have reinvented this technique, long used as a “book of glass” meant to instruct the faithful. Among the 20th-century master glassmakers featured are Maurice Denis, Auguste Alleaume, Gabriel Loire and Max Ingrand. The tour shows how the Le Mans region remains a land of innovation in stained glass, with many bold contemporary creations.\n\nThe exhibition runs January 23 to November 2, 2026, Tuesday through Sunday, 10 AM–12:30 PM and 2–6 PM, at 2 rue Claude Blondeau in Le Mans.",{"icon":58,"name":59,"slug":60,"color":61,"traductions":133},{"en-US":134},{"_h":64,"name":65},{"lat":136,"lng":137,"city":69,"name":138,"slug":139,"address":140,"logo_url":12,"image_url":141,"traductions":142},48.007169,0.198622,"Musée Jean-Claude Boulard - Carré Plantagenêt","carre-plantagenet","2 rue Claude Blondeau","https:\u002F\u002Frxpslhyadfopswypqcpv.supabase.co\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Fevent-images\u002Fvenue-carre-plantagenet.jpg",{"en-US":143},{"_h":144,"history":145,"practical":146,"description":150,"description_long":151},"6cda927875242dcd","Before it was a museum, the site had several lives. In the 13th century the Filles-Dieu convent settled here, where nuns lived under the Rule of Saint Augustine. In the 18th century the convent was dissolved and turned into a hospital-seminary for elderly and destitute priests. During the French Revolution the site was split into two lots and sold as national property; in 1795, the printer Charles Monnoyer bought one of these lots. The Monnoyer family, printers since 1618 (first in Paris, then in Le Mans), built a thriving print shop on the site that left a lasting mark on the city, until it ceased operations in 1986 under Paul Monnoyer, then 83 years old.\n\nThe current museum, designed by architect Bernard Althabegoïty, is the product of a major restoration of the former Monnoyer print shop and the Filles-Dieu convent, at a cost of about €20.2 million. Some parts of the old buildings were kept as architectural witnesses to the city's history. The Carré Plantagenêt opened on June 18, 2009, in the Saint-Nicolas district of Le Mans.\n\nNote that Le Mans was among the very first French cities to open a museum after the Revolution, as early as 1799, with a collection first housed at the Abbey of La Couture and based in part on the bequest of Marshal de Tessé. That collection gave rise to the Tessé Museum, the counterpart of the Carré Plantagenêt in the Le Mans museum network.",{"bus":147,"tram":148,"parking":149,"acces_sources":85},"Lines M, 8 — Mendès France stop, 80 m · wheelchair-accessible stop","T2 — Jacobins-Quinconces stop, 150 m · wheelchair-accessible stop","Parking 60 m away: Parking des Jacobins (paid, 388 spaces, underground)","Archaeology and history museum of Le Mans, housed in the former Oratorian college, dedicated to two thousand years of the city's history.","The Jean-Claude-Boulard museum - Carré Plantagenêt, Le Mans' archaeology and history museum, covers 3,360 m² (including 1,400 m² of permanent exhibits and 300 m² of temporary exhibits). Its five-part route traces the history of the Sarthe region from prehistory to the late Middle Ages: prehistory, protohistory, the Gallo-Roman era, the early Middle Ages and the medieval Maine. The collection, built up since the 19th century and through digs across the territory since the 1970s, features highlights such as the hoard of Cenomanian coins found on the banks of the Huisne in 1997, the Venus of Rextuganos, the glass drinking horn, the Coëffort hoard, Plantagenêt enamel, and a gallery of six stone tomb effigies.\n\nThe route is designed for all audiences and relies on models, watercolor reconstructions, interactive kiosks and staged spaces. The museum has an auditorium (about 120 seats), activity rooms, a documentation center and a tearoom. Admission is free, including for temporary exhibitions; only workshops and guided tours are paid.\n\nBeyond its permanent route, the museum hosts temporary exhibitions several times a year and a public outreach department that runs education programs for schools, associations, hospitals and the local detention center, with the aim of making culture accessible to everyone.",{"id":153,"slug":154,"title":155,"description":12,"starts_at":156,"ends_at":121,"occurrences":12,"price_text":12,"is_free":36,"image_url":157,"image_credit":158,"external_url":159,"status":18,"type":12,"accroche":12,"tarif":12,"prix_min":12,"prix_max":12,"reservation":12,"etat":12,"forme":12,"horaires":12,"sans_heure":36,"performers":12,"traductions":160,"category":165,"venue":168},"c567960c-bbeb-4ac0-a1bf-fbdc7a32e397","la-vie-secrete-dun-vieux-frene-mediatheque-aragon-2026-09-29","La vie secrète d'un vieux frêne","2026-09-29T08:00:00+00:00","https:\u002F\u002Frxpslhyadfopswypqcpv.supabase.co\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Fvenue-photos\u002Fevenements\u002Fla-vie-secrete-dun-vieux-frene-mediatheque-aragon-2026-09-29\u002Fla-vie-secrete-dun-vieux-frene-mediatheque-aragon-2026-09-29-1.jpg","Visuel : Médiathèque Louis Aragon \u002F Ville du Mans (Réseau des médiathèques)","https:\u002F\u002Fopenagenda.com\u002Ffr\u002Freseau-des-mediatheques-du-mans\u002Fevents\u002F99854563_la-vie-secrete-dun-vieux-frene",{"en-US":161},{"_h":162,"title":163,"description_long":164},"d785d2204cb93ea0","The Secret Life of an Old Ash Tree","Exhibition built around “L'Arbri” (Éditions du Ricochet), the album by Séverine Duchesne, winner of the 2026 Livre vert – Le Mans grant. An installation made by children from the City of Le Mans leisure centers serves as a showcase for the behind-the-scenes making of the book. On view during opening hours at the Aragon Library until October 31, all ages.",{"icon":58,"name":59,"slug":60,"color":61,"traductions":166},{"en-US":167},{"_h":64,"name":65},{"lat":169,"lng":170,"city":69,"name":171,"slug":172,"address":173,"logo_url":174,"image_url":175,"traductions":176},48.002637,0.19288,"Médiathèque Louis Aragon","mediatheque-louis-aragon","54 rue du Port","https:\u002F\u002Frxpslhyadfopswypqcpv.supabase.co\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Fvenue-logos\u002Fmediatheque-louis-aragon.png","https:\u002F\u002Frxpslhyadfopswypqcpv.supabase.co\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Fevent-images\u002Fvenue-mediatheque-louis-aragon.jpg",{"en-US":177},{"_h":178,"history":179,"practical":180,"description":186,"description_long":187},"e12bda28e99ce3c9","Public reading in Le Mans dates back to 1789, when the first municipal library was created from the revolutionary confiscation of religious communities' property in the region. First housed in the attics of the prefecture (former Abbey of La Couture), it gained municipal library status in 1803, and a first inventory was drawn up in 1805.\n\nIn 1931, the collections moved to the former offices of the Chappée foundry on rue Gambetta, where the library kept growing: its spaces doubled, with Study and Public Reading sections added in 1962–1963, a youth section opened in 1971, and then the first neighborhood annex (Ronceray) in 1973.\n\nIn 1988, the central library moved for the first time into a building designed specifically for it, in the Halles district: the Louis Aragon library, designed by architect Jean-Louis Bertrand, which brought audiovisual media in alongside print. The number of registered members rose from 1,600 in 1965 to 16,000 today, and annual loans across the network rose from 40,000 to 900,000.",{"bus":181,"tram":182,"hours":183,"parking":184,"acces_sources":85,"accessibilite":185},"Lines C4, 12, 14 — Médiathèque stop, 20 m · wheelchair-accessible stop","T1 — Éperon stop, 290 m · wheelchair-accessible stop","Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday: 10 AM–6:30 PM. Thursday: 1:30–6:30 PM. Saturday: 10 AM–6 PM. Closed Sunday and Monday. The Children and Teens space opens at 1:30 PM on weekdays; during short school holidays it opens at 10 AM (except Thursdays). Digital advisors: Wednesday 2–5 PM and Saturday 10 AM–1 PM. Reduced hours in July (9 AM–1 PM) and closed for all of August.","Parking 80 m away: Médiathèque (paid, 240 spaces, underground)","Partial wheelchair access (OpenStreetMap)","The city's main library, a cultural and educational hub for the people of Le Mans.","Located in the heart of downtown Le Mans, just steps from Place de la République, the Louis Aragon library heads the Le Mans Libraries and Archives network. It oversees all the neighborhood libraries (Saulnières, Sud, l'Espal, les Vergers) as well as partner relay libraries. The building, with its cubic design around a large courtyard, covers 7,700 m², of which 4,000 m² are open to the public.\n\nIt offers a wide selection of collections (books, magazines, CDs, DVDs), access to the Inathèque, equipment for visually impaired readers, Wi-Fi, a digital space with digital-skills advisors on duty, and a 24\u002F7 automatic book return robot. It also has an auditorium and an exhibition space that regularly host talks, screenings and cultural events. Thematic areas are dedicated to youth, music and cinema.\n\nThe library also holds the network's most precious heritage collections: about 700 manuscripts (130 of them medieval), nearly 400 incunabula printed before 1501, some 130,000 volumes printed before 1909, and specialized collections on Maine (11,000 documents), automobiles (11,700 documents) and architecture (3,300 drawings and plans). This heritage earns the institution the status of a classified municipal library (bibliothèque municipale classée).",{"id":189,"slug":190,"title":191,"description":192,"starts_at":193,"ends_at":194,"occurrences":12,"price_text":195,"is_free":36,"image_url":196,"image_credit":12,"external_url":197,"status":18,"type":12,"accroche":12,"tarif":12,"prix_min":12,"prix_max":12,"reservation":12,"etat":12,"forme":12,"horaires":12,"sans_heure":36,"performers":198,"traductions":214,"category":233,"venue":236},"b569b50c-90ba-4551-a083-83e1f1998ee2","la-photographie-lepau-2026","La photographie à l'Épau — Parcours photographique à ciel ouvert","Cinq photographes contemporains investissent le parc de l'Abbaye royale de l'Épau : Corey Arnold, Paolo Verzone, Kateryna Lebreton, Steven Wassenaar et Gérard Uféras. À travers leurs œuvres, la photographie devient un espace de rencontre et de réflexion, des villes américaines où la faune sauvage réapprend à cohabiter avec l'Homme aux recherches scientifiques qui bouleversent notre vision des dinosaures, en passant par les campagnes françaises en pleine mutation, les fêtes populaires célébrant la joie d'être ensemble, et les récits de femmes ukrainiennes réfugiées en France. Chaque exposition propose ainsi une exploration singulière de ce qui nous relie : notre environnement et notre histoire. Une visite guidée du parcours photographique est proposée les jeudis 9, 16, 23 et 30 juillet ainsi que les 6 et 13 août, de 11h à 12h, en supplément du droit d'entrée.","2026-06-25T22:00:00+00:00","2026-10-31T23:00:00+00:00","Compris dans le droit d'entrée à l'abbaye (7€ tarif plein, 5€ tarif réduit, gratuit moins de 10 ans)","https:\u002F\u002Frxpslhyadfopswypqcpv.supabase.co\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Fevent-images\u002Fla-photographie-lepau-2026.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Fepau.sarthe.fr\u002Fla-photographie-lepau",[199,202,205,208,211],{"name":200,"about":201},"Corey Arnold","Photographe américain, série « Cities gone wild » sur la faune sauvage s'adaptant aux grandes villes.",{"name":203,"about":204},"Paolo Verzone","Photographe, série « Repenser les dinosaures » sur les recherches paléontologiques contemporaines.",{"name":206,"about":207},"Kateryna Lebreton","Photographe, série « Au fil de la mémoire », portraits de femmes ukrainiennes réfugiées en France.",{"name":209,"about":210},"Steven Wassenaar","Photographe documentant depuis 2022 le monde rural français dans « Le visage de la terre est dans son cœur ».",{"name":212,"about":213},"Gérard Uféras","Photographe, série « Ensemble », célébration des événements collectifs et de la communion.",{"en-US":215},{"_h":216,"title":217,"performers":218,"price_text":229,"description":230,"organizer_about":231,"description_long":232},"eb6764911d4aaa83","Photography at the Épau: Open-Air Photo Trail",[219,221,223,225,227],{"name":200,"about":220},"American photographer; series “Cities gone wild” on wildlife adapting to large cities.",{"name":203,"about":222},"Photographer; series “Repenser les dinosaures” on contemporary paleontological research.",{"name":206,"about":224},"Photographer; series “Au fil de la mémoire,” portraits of Ukrainian women refugees in France.",{"name":209,"about":226},"Photographer documenting rural France since 2022 in “Le visage de la terre est dans son cœur.”",{"name":212,"about":228},"Photographer; series “Ensemble,” celebrating collective events and communion.","Included with abbey admission (€7 full price, €5 reduced, free under 10)","Five contemporary photographers take over the park of the Abbaye royale de l'Épau: Corey Arnold, Paolo Verzone, Kateryna Lebreton, Steven Wassenaar, and Gérard Uféras. Through their work, photography becomes a space for encounter and reflection, from American cities where wildlife is relearning how to live alongside people, to scientific research that is upending our view of dinosaurs, from French countryside in full transformation to popular festivals celebrating the joy of being together, and the stories of Ukrainian women refugees in France. Each exhibition offers a singular exploration of what connects us: our environment and our history. Guided tours of the photo trail are offered on Thursdays, July 9, 16, 23, and 30, and on August 6 and 13, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM, in addition to the admission fee.","The Abbaye royale de l'Épau, founded by Queen Bérengère of Navarre, widow of Richard the Lionheart, is managed by the Sarthe Departmental Council. Year-round, the site offers a heritage trail, a 13-hectare park with permaculture gardens, and a rich cultural program, including this open-air photo trail.","The Abbaye Royale de l'Épau hosts an open-air photo trail that mixes heritage, nature, and contemporary creation, in the exceptional setting of the abbey and its park. Five contemporary photographers each present an original series, installed outdoors along the visitor route.\n\nCorey Arnold explores wildlife adapting to large American cities in “Cities gone wild.” Paolo Verzone challenges our representations with “Repenser les dinosaures,” drawing on the latest paleontological research. Kateryna Lebreton presents “Au fil de la mémoire,” a series of portraits of Ukrainian women refugees in France. Since 2022, Steven Wassenaar has documented rural France in “Le visage de la terre est dans son cœur.” Finally, Gérard Uféras celebrates collective events and human communion in “Ensemble.”\n\nThe trail is open from June 26 to November 1, 2026. Guided tours are offered on Thursdays, July 9, 16, 23, and 30, and on August 6 and 13, from 11:00 AM to 12:00 PM.",{"icon":58,"name":59,"slug":60,"color":61,"traductions":234},{"en-US":235},{"_h":64,"name":65},{"lat":237,"lng":238,"city":239,"name":240,"slug":241,"address":242,"logo_url":12,"image_url":243,"traductions":244},48.006226,0.277726,"Yvré-l'Évêque","Abbaye Royale de l'Épau","abbaye-royale-de-lepau","Route de Changé","https:\u002F\u002Frxpslhyadfopswypqcpv.supabase.co\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Fevent-images\u002Fvenue-abbaye-royale-de-lepau.jpg",{"en-US":245},{"_h":246,"history":247,"practical":248,"description":254,"description_long":255},"074f5050b40be138","L'Abbaye Royale de l'Épau was founded by Queen Berengaria of Navarre, widow of Richard the Lionheart, King of England. King Louis IX (Saint Louis) granted her the land in 1228. The founding charter of this Cistercian monastery for men is dated 1229, and an agreement settling a dispute with the Hôtel-Dieu de Coëffort was reached in 1230, the year twelve monks from Cîteaux, led by their abbot Jean, settled at l'Épau. Berengaria died in 1230, barely a year after the foundation, and was buried in the abbey she had founded. The church was consecrated by the bishop of Le Mans in 1234. Her recumbent effigy, now visible in the abbey church, remains one of the most moving witnesses to this history.\n\nThe monks drained the surrounding marshes and diverted the course of the Huisne to make room for construction, which progressed from south to north: church, sacristy, chapter house, dormitory and refectory, with Gothic embellishments added around 1260 to 1320. During the Hundred Years' War, the abbey was damaged in the 1360s (a fire in 1365 is traditionally cited, although recent historical work has nuanced this). In 1367, King Charles V authorized funding for the reconstruction using part of the ransom paid for the release of John II the Good. From 1479, King Louis XI imposed the commendam by appointing Thomas des Capitaines as the first commendatory abbot, breaking with the traditional monastic election and sparking conflicts, sometimes violent, such as under Abbot Macé Petiot in the 1490s.\n\nDuring the Revolution, an inventory was drawn up on August 28, 1790, and the monks left in October of that year. The abbey, now national property, was sold to an industrialist who turned it into a laundry and then a farm, keeping it in agricultural use for more than a century and a half. On June 18, 1959, the Sarthe departmental council bought back the abbey for eleven million francs and launched a major restoration respectful of its 13th-century architecture. The Department has held its assemblies there since the 1970s, and in 1982, at the initiative of its president Michel d'Aillières, created the Festival de l'Épau, today one of France's major classical music events (42nd edition in May 2026). In March 2017, the site was officially renamed “Abbaye Royale de l'Épau” to highlight its royal character, brought to light by recent historical research. Since 2016, its cultural management has been entrusted to Sarthe Culture.",{"hours":249,"access":250,"transit":251,"telephone":252,"accessibilite":253},"September 1 to June 30: Wednesday through Sunday, 11 AM–6 PM, and Mondays during school holidays. July 1 to August 31: every day except Tuesday, 10 AM–7 PM. Closed Tuesdays, December 25 and January 1. Last entries 30 minutes before closing.","Route de Changé, in Yvré-l'Évêque, just outside Le Mans. By the A28 motorway: exit 23 “Le Mans Z.I. Sud,” follow “Le Mans Centre,” then “Abbaye de l'Épau.” Le Mans train station is 55 minutes from Paris by TGV.","Tram line 2, toward Espal - Arche de la Nature, Épau - Gué Bernisson stop (about 15 minutes from the SNCF train station), then a 5-minute walk. Bus line 6, toward Saint-Martin, Gué Bernisson stop.","02 43 84 22 29","Video guide in French Sign Language (LSF). FALC booklet (Easy to Read and Easy to Understand) available on request at the front desk. Audio tours on the Guidigo app.","Cistercian abbey founded in 1230 by Bérengère de Navarre, widow of Richard Cœur de Lion, and considered one of the most beautiful Cistercian jewels in France. The estate includes the abbey church, the monastic buildings, and a wooded park on the banks of the Huisne.","On the outskirts of Le Mans, in the commune of Yvré-l'Évêque, the Abbaye Royale de l'Épau is a former Cistercian monastery that has kept a remarkable medieval architectural unity. The abbey church, cloister, chapter house, scriptorium, warming room, and monks' dormitory can be visited along a heritage trail, complemented by a 17th-century wing. The estate also includes gardens being restored around a permaculture project, a heritage orchard, beehives, a café on site (Café des Moines), and a shop.\n\nManaged since 2016 by Sarthe Culture on behalf of the Sarthe Department, the abbey hosts temporary exhibitions (photography, art), lectures, “Rendez-vous nature,” and activities for families and school groups all year, along with a summer program (“Un été à l'Épau”). Every May it becomes the setting for the Festival de l'Épau, a major classical music festival in the region, and at year's end it offers nighttime illuminations (“Le Voyage lumineux et sonore”). The abbey also hosts seminars and receptions in this exceptional heritage setting.\n\nPeople come for the calm of the cloister, to read 13th-century Cistercian architecture, and for a cultural program that blends heritage, nature, and live performance, just a few minutes from central Le Mans.",{"id":257,"slug":258,"title":259,"description":260,"starts_at":261,"ends_at":262,"occurrences":12,"price_text":263,"is_free":36,"image_url":264,"image_credit":12,"external_url":265,"status":18,"type":12,"accroche":12,"tarif":12,"prix_min":12,"prix_max":12,"reservation":12,"etat":12,"forme":12,"horaires":12,"sans_heure":36,"performers":12,"traductions":266,"category":273,"venue":276},"d5b2ea73-29b1-4ef7-837a-e3923dd622e2","exposition-erro-fiaa-2026","Exposition ERRÓ au FIAA","Le centre d'art FIAA consacre une exposition au peintre et graveur islandais ERRÓ (Guðmundur Guðmundsson), pionnier de la Figuration Narrative. Vingt-et-une toiles, onze collages originaux, des digigraphies et aquagravures, réalisés pour la plupart entre 2020 et 2023, y sont présentés : des assemblages d'images de publicité, de bande dessinée et de presse, à la fois critiques, satiriques et pleins d'humour. Ouvert du mardi au dimanche de 14h à 18h ; entrée gratuite les dimanches d'août 2026.","2026-05-22T12:00:00+00:00","2026-11-01T17:00:00+00:00","De 3€ (tarif réduit) à 5€ (plein tarif) ; gratuit les dimanches d'août 2026","https:\u002F\u002Frxpslhyadfopswypqcpv.supabase.co\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Fevent-images\u002Fexposition-erro-fiaa-2026.jpg","https:\u002F\u002Fwww.fiaa-lemans.com\u002Fexposition-en-cours",{"en-US":267},{"_h":268,"title":269,"price_text":270,"description":271,"description_long":272},"e9fea6f4ccb74cf8","ERRÓ exhibition at FIAA","€3 (reduced) to €5 (full price); free on Sundays in August 2026","The FIAA art center presents an exhibition by Icelandic painter and printmaker ERRÓ (Guðmundur Guðmundsson), a pioneer of Narrative Figuration. Twenty-one paintings, eleven original collages, digigraphies and aquagravures, mostly made between 2020 and 2023, are on display: assemblages of advertising, comics and press images, at once critical, satirical and full of humor. Open Tuesday through Sunday, 2–6 PM; free admission on Sundays in August 2026.","The FIAA (Fonds International d'Art Actuel), based at La Visitation in Le Mans, presents an exhibition of Erró, real name Guðmundur Guðmundsson, a major figure of the Icelandic art scene and one of the most distinctive voices in narrative painting since the 1960s. Born in 1932 in Ólafsvík, Iceland, trained in Reykjavík, Oslo, Florence and Ravenna between 1949 and 1955, he settled in Paris in 1958 and developed a body of work that led to the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1969), the Centre Pompidou (1975–1976, then 2010) and the Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon (2014).\n\nThe heart of his approach rests on a decision made in 1964: to stop inventing forms. Since then, Erró draws exclusively on existing images (comics, advertisements, political iconography, magazine pages), which he cuts out, sorts and assembles by theme before transferring them onto canvas. This collage process produces saturated compositions in which images of mass culture coexist without hierarchy with references to art history, in a style critics often call “baroque pop”: a bold profusion, at once satirical, critical and full of humor, that paints a teeming portrait of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.\n\nAt the FIAA, the exhibition brings together 21 paintings, 11 original collages, and digigraphs and aquagraphs, mostly made between 2020 and 2023: a recent body of work that shows the constancy of Erró's gesture across more than sixty years of career. A 40-page catalog, published by Lelivredart, accompanies the exhibition.\n\nOn view May 22 to November 1, 2026, Tuesday through Sunday, 2–6 PM, at the FIAA Art Center, 1 rue Gambetta in Le Mans.",{"icon":58,"name":59,"slug":60,"color":61,"traductions":274},{"en-US":275},{"_h":64,"name":65},{"lat":277,"lng":278,"city":69,"name":279,"slug":280,"address":281,"logo_url":282,"image_url":283,"traductions":284},48.004148,0.195328,"FIAA - Fonds International d'Art Actuel","fiaa-centre-art-actuel","La Visitation, 1 rue Gambetta","https:\u002F\u002Frxpslhyadfopswypqcpv.supabase.co\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Fvenue-logos\u002Ffiaa-centre-art-actuel.png","https:\u002F\u002Frxpslhyadfopswypqcpv.supabase.co\u002Fstorage\u002Fv1\u002Fobject\u002Fpublic\u002Fevent-images\u002Fvenue-fiaa-centre-art-actuel.jpg",{"en-US":285},{"_h":286,"history":287,"practical":288,"description":293,"description_long":294},"165c23580dd40d16","FIAA opened in September 2020 on the initiative of Lucien Ruimy, an artist and organizer of the Puls'Art fair, in a contemporary building set within the historic La Visitation site. The center was designed to house the city of Le Mans collection as well as those of the Lefranc & Bourgeois company and of Lucien Ruimy himself, with the ambition of offering a panorama of recent international artistic creation.\n\nIts location is part of the overall redevelopment of the La Visitation site, a former Visitandine convent completed in 1723. After the French Revolution it was turned into barracks, a prison, a hospital and a weaving workshop, then a gendarmerie, prison and courthouse until the early 1990s. The prison closed for good in 2010 and was converted into a cultural and commercial hub that opened to the public in 2019.",{"bus":289,"tram":290,"hours":291,"parking":292,"acces_sources":85},"Lines M, 6, 23, 25 — République stop, 90 m · wheelchair-accessible stop","T1 — République stop, 90 m · wheelchair-accessible stop","Tuesday to Sunday, 2–6 PM (closed Mondays). Guided tours on Saturday mornings by reservation.","Parking 90 m away (paid, 54 spaces, surface lot)","Contemporary art center at La Visitation, in the heart of Le Mans, showing temporary exhibitions by international artists.","FIAA (Fonds International d'Art Actuel) is a contemporary art exhibition center in the heart of Le Mans, on the La Visitation site, between the Peach restaurant and the Racines wine bar. The center presents about four exhibitions a year devoted to living artists who are part of today's art scene, in painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography and ceramics. The current exhibition (2026) is devoted to Icelandic artist Erró, a figure of the Figuration Narrative movement.\n\nBeyond its temporary program, FIAA holds a permanent collection of nearly 400 works (from the Le Mans city collection, the Lefranc & Bourgeois company collection and the personal collection of Lucien Ruimy), a selection of which is shown roughly every two years. The center offers guided tours on Saturday mornings by reservation, visual arts workshops tied to current exhibitions, and an on-site shop. It is a cultural venue open to all audiences, in the heart of downtown."]