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History Exhibition

The Contemporary

Opens Friday at 10:00 AM

Nanterre

📚"goldmine for history students"
🎒Lockers available, no backpacks inside
🏛️Visit L'Atelier de l'histoire museum

Dive into 4.5 million documents that shaped our times at this sleek 2021 research complex. Part library, part museum, La Contemporaine invites you to explore "L'Atelier de l'histoire" — an immersive journey through war pamphlets, photojournalism, and activist archives that reveal how the present becomes history.

20th century archives
contemporary history
research library
museum experience

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  • 20th century archives
  • contemporary history
  • research library
  • museum experience
  • Nanterre

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