Outgoing
Maison de l'armateur - musée 1
Decorative Exhibition
Maison de l'armateur - musée 2
Maison de l'armateur - musée 3
Maison de l'armateur - musée 4
Maison de l'armateur - musée 5

Maison de l'armateur - musée

Le Havre

Artists Emmanuelle Gall and Ari Hamot have taken over the Maison de l'armateur, a mansion built with wealth from the transatlantic slave trade. Their installations of archives, collages, and sculptures make visible a repressed history and invite reflection on colonial slavery's echoes today.

colonial history
contemporary art installation
memorial exhibition
thought-provoking

Tips

🎨installations span all floors of the mansion
📅reserve ahead for free afternoon visits
🗣️guided tours available mornings by reservation

Maison de l'armateur - musée

3 Quai de l'Île, 76600 Le Havre, France

Free

Upcoming at Maison de l'armateur - musée

Friday, Jun 12
Réminiscences - Fantômes de l'esclavage

Réminiscences - Fantômes de l'esclavage

June 12 at 1:45pm

Two artists reclaim a 19th-century slave trader's mansion, filling its cabinets and closets with archives, collages, and sculptures that make visible the erased lives of the enslaved. A haunting, necessary confrontation with colonial history that invites collective reckoning.