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Welcome to the digital logbook of the Art Explora Festival! Discover our resources to prepare or extend your visit, share your impressions and explore the testimonials of other visitors. Explore artist profiles, artworks, educational resources, podcasts, and videos—all conveniently housed in one place.Enjoy your discovery!

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Women in Mediterranean art

Art Explora

How are women represented in the arts? What clichés are (too) often associated with them? And what role do they play in creation?

To find out, discover our 4-part journey on Art Explora Academy: head for the Mediterranean countries for a journey through time and culture!

Women artists
Art Explora Academy
Museum boat
School
Women in the Mediterranean
Educational booklet

Festival Art Explora educational booklet

Art Explora
As part of the Art Explora Festival's immersive exhibition, we are offering teachers, education professionals and volunteers an educational kit to help them enrich their visit. The kit provides keys to understanding the content of the visit, as well as details on some of the works on display, enabling readers to prepare their itinerary and build activities adapted to all visitors.
Visual Art
Women artists
Mediterranean
Heritage
Ocean Weekend
All audiences
Seas & oceans
Educational booklet

Posidonia: Guardian of the Mediterranean

Fondation de la Mer
Valletta
In Malta, the Art Explora festival and the Fondation de la Mer are joining forces to raise awareness of the need to protect Posidonia, a Mediterranean plant that forms underwater meadows and plays an exceptional role in marine ecology. Download our educational guide to find out more about this remarkable marine plant and how it contributes to biodiversity and climate regulation.
Fauna and Flora
Mediterranean
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Museum boat
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Women in the Mediterranean
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From thread to needle: women and textile work

Art Explora
As part of the Art Explora Festival, the museum boat presents an exhibition on female figures in the Mediterranean, in exceptional collaboration with the Musée du Louvre. How are women represented in works of art? What clichés are (too) often associated with them? And what is their role as artists? This short video explores the theme of women and textile work through a medieval work of art, the Virgin with spindle. Watch the video on the Art Explora Academy to find out more.
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Museum boat
All audiences
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Women's Odyssey

Art Explora & Margaux Brugvin
Travel around the Mediterranean to meet the female characters of Homer's Odyssey. From Penelope, the ideal woman, to the monsters Odysseus faces, we invite you to gain a better understanding of these archetypes of femininity that have left their mark on Western culture. How have these women, nymphs, goddesses and monsters been represented over the centuries in the visual arts, literature, film, comics and video games? What do the interpretations and reinterpretations of their myths say about the era that produced them? A web series directed by Margaux Brugvin, now available on Art Explora Academy.
Women artists
Art Explora Academy
Museum boat
Video
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Video

La Toile Percée

Art Explora & Louvre Ravioli
Discover "La Toile Percée", a series of videos in which Louvre Ravioli deciphers for you the most emblematic works from the Musée du Louvre. To discover the secrets behind these masterpieces, visit Art Explora Academy!‍
Art Explora Academy
Museum boat
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Women artists
Video

Baya, Algerian artist

Art Explora
As part of the Art Explora Festival, the museum boat presents an exhibition on female figures in the Mediterranean, in exceptional collaboration with the Musée du Louvre. How are women represented in works of art? What clichés are (too) often associated with them? And what is their role as artists? In this video, explore the inspiring journey of Baya, an Algerian artist, as she rekindles her passion for painting after Algerian independence in 1962.
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Heritage
E-learning

Malta's secrets

Artips
Valletta
Did giants really live in Malta? Where does the golden color of the landscape come from? Why do some of its boats have eyes? What did the archipelago look like in prehistoric times? Why do some "Maltese oranges" not come from Malta? Through 20 well-kept secrets, we reveal the best anecdotes from Maltese history and culture.
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Ocean Weekend
All audiences
Seas & oceans
Podcast

28 days under the sea | with Laurent Ballesta

Les Baladeurs
Living underwater and interacting with mysterious fish has fascinated humans for decades. In 2019, to get closer to this dream, marine biologist and underwater photographer Laurent Ballesta has combined several diving techniques to explore the depths of the Mediterranean without time constraints. But his ambition has a Award : he must remain confined for 28 days with three companions in a 5 m2 chamber. This innovative expedition takes on the appearance of a voyage into space, in search of species on the threshold of the abyss.
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Key figures

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of visitors

25

partner schools

200

volunteers

20

steps

35

workshops organized with associations for 4,000 children

Our Impact Reports

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Malta 2024

At the heart of the Art Explora Festival, communicate your artistic or social commitment in a dedicated space, open to all and part of the official program.

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Marseille 2024

Aboard the world's largest catamaran, immerse yourself in an exhibition designed with the Louvre Museum in some of the most fascinating cities in Europe and the Middle East.

  • Private cocktail on the boat -museum
  • Private tours of the festival, on the boat and on the quayside
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