Tonight on Rai5 two documentaries on Paris museums, one on the Louvre and one on the Musée d'Orsay

What’s behind the scenes of a museum? This is the question Rai5 aims to answer with two documentaries about two museums in Paris (i.e., the Louvre and the Musée d’Orsay) that air tonight, Friday, January 8, 2021, at 9:15 p.m., as part of the Art Night package: two documentaries to reveal not only the works that museums preserve, but also to illustrate the complex work that museums do to put on the...spectacle of art.

The first documentary is titled A Tuesday at the Louvre a documentary, by Nadia Cleitman. Set during a winter Tuesday in Paris, a day the Louvre is closed to the public, and for that very reason... is the most active day at the museum. Between restoration work, cleaning rooms, moving work around, and security drills, Louvre employees don’t stop: in the Mona Lisa room, for example, a team is preparing an operation on an unprecedented scale. Before the major redesign the room is set to undergo, they must protect Veronese’s masterpiece, The Marriage at Cana. And still, with the preventive conservation teams, the public will get to witness the annual grand dusting of artworks from the royal collections of the 18th century. Precious furniture, such as Louis XVI’s desk or Marie Antoinette’s personal secretary, pass into their expert hands. The documentary will then follow three Louvre firefighters on their weekly tour to check emergency resources: fifty-two firefighters take turns 24 hours a day to guard the palace. With them, the public will discover the secret passages that lead into the backdrop. In an exceptional exercise, these firefighters like no other train to save the works of the Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities. After that, the documentary the spectacular movement of the Thomir Vase: a two-meter-tall, half-ton work of bronze and Sèvres porcelain. Put in reserve for four years on a landing, it will find the light again, but for that it will have to travel nearly a kilometer through the halls of the museum--and arrive in one piece!

The second documentary, to follow, is The Musée d’Orsay, the spectacle of art, written and directed by Bruno Ulmer. A journey behind the scenes of one of the most famous and visited museums in the world, with more than three million visitors a year and a collection of nearly 100,000 works, 70,000 of which are kept in storage. A living museum, part of a dynamic that, unceasingly, sharpens curiosity and makes people want to know more, and it is precisely to this discovery that the documentary invites us: to go behind the scenes of the museum, to see it live in its everyday life, to discover the new stories behind the works, to see what, usually, we do not see. And the importance of everyone’s role within the institution: from the workers who move and relocate the works to the administrators, including conservators, curators, directors or museographers, and curators.

Tonight on Rai5 two documentaries on Paris museums, one on the Louvre and one on the Musée d'Orsay

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