Are you an art buff looking for your fix in Bordeaux? If so, you can't miss Les Bassins des Lumières. Discover this immersive art experience and uncover the works of some of the world's most famous artists.
Why Visit the Bassins des Lumiéres?
Make your way to Les Bassins des Lumières to enter this unique, interactive art gallery located in Bordeaux's former submarine base. Opened in the summer of 1999, Les Bassins des Lumières is home to huge immersive digital exhibitions dedicated to the great artists of art history, contemporary creations and major current themes including the conquest of space of comic strips. Les Bassins is also the largest digital art centre in the world. What more could you ask for?
Within Les Bassins itself, you'll find 4 massive basins, with a continuous cycle of digital and immersive exhibitions:
- The Immersive Citerne: a 155 metre-squared (1,668 square feet) space with 7-metre (23-foot) high ceilings, that allows you to lie down or sit down and get a different perspective.
- The Cube: a 220 metre-squared (2,368 square feet), 8-metre (26-foot) high space dedicated to contemporary artists working in the field of immersive art, there's also a parallel exhibition of works by established and emerging digital artists.
- Large Mooring Buoys: various images from temporary exhibitions are projected onto the water.
- The Base Museum: explore the history of the old submarine base and discover its fascinating past.
While you can spend as much or as little time at Les Bassins as you'd like, it usually takes around an hour to take in the exhibitions.
Currently at Les Bassins des Lumières
Currently on display as special expositions at Les Bassins des Lumières you'll find:
From Vermeer to Van Gogh, The Dutch Masters
This exhibition presents the genius of the painters from northern Europe through immersion via an authentic experience. Step into the reality of everyday life, and follow in the footsteps of these great masters who took an extraordinary approach to the ordinary!
Show Schedules
The 2024 temporary exhibition schedule is as follows:
The Dutch Masters
- October 1 to October 17: daily from 10 am to 6 pm
- October 18 to November 4: daily from 10 am to 2 pm
- November 5 to December 19: Monday and Tuesday from 10 am to 6 pm; Wednesday from 10 am to 2 pm; Thursday from 10 am to 6 pm; Friday from 10 am to 8 pm; Saturday and Sunday from 10 am to 2 pm
Special Schedules
- October 16, 2024: Opening time will be 11:30 am
- November 14, 2024: Opening time will be at 12:30 pm
- December 3, 2024: Opening time will be at 12:30 pm
- December 12, 2024: Closing time will be at 6 pm
- December 13, 2024: Closing time will be at 6 pm
- December 18, 2024: Closing time will be at 4 pm
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