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Exhibition "L'Europe au temps d'Ulysse"
Paris, Grand Palais, 1999-2000

program a selection of 240 exhibits from the Early bronze age- second half of the 3rd Millennium BC- to archaic period -second half of the 6th century BC , from Spain to Russia, from Denmark to Greece

client Réunion des Musées Nationaux, Conseil d’Europe

size sqm 1500

The main concept was to build inside the Grand Palais an archaeological space, to display pieces inside a kind of ruined palace , exploiting the three galleries different geometrical characters.
The idea was not to create museum rooms but build up “pieces of wall” with different heights and opposite slopes with galleries geometry , creating a background for the exhibits- the majority of small size- and giving a sense of continuity of different themes in which the exhibition is organized.