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MuMo - Frac
The MuMo - Frac museum truck has been traveling the roads of France since 2017, reaching out to all residents with works from the Fonds régionaux d'art contemporain (Frac), as well as the Centre national des arts plastiques (Cnap).
"Anima" exhibition in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region
From January 31 to May 7, 2026, MuMo - Frac will travel across Savoie and Isère to meet 5,000 visitors, primarily residents of rural and suburban areas. On board: an exhibition entitled "Anima," specially designed by Frac Auvergne in collaboration with IAC - Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes.
With works by Viriya CHOTPANYAVISUT, Gregory CREWDSON, Julian FARADE, Philippe FAVIER, Stephen MAAS, Jean-Luc MYLAYNE, Sarah del PINO, Humberto RIVAS, Alain SÉCHAS, and Boyd WEBB from the collections of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes regional contemporary art funds: The Frac Auvergne and the IAC Villeurbanne.
First, a dog with a beaming smile welcomes visitors to the exhibition, while nearby, the silhouette of a stingray floats through the air. Then, from a jumble of lines and colors, a crocodile with sharp teeth emerges, its bulging eyes fixed on a cat with its paw raised. In the background, bathed in twilight, dairy cows appear on a farm with a science fiction aesthetic, while nearby, a wide-open birdcage has allowed its occupants to escape.
Throughout the exhibition, the animals come to life, animated by the energy of a pencil stroke or a halo of light. They become characters in fantastical stories (Julian Farade) or enigmatic scenes (Gregory Crewdson, Boyd Webb), heroes of tiny, poetic tales (Philippe Favier) or figures in a new, enchanted reality (Stephen Maas). The artists in this exhibition explore the richness of the animal world, playing on the many fantasies it inspires while affirming the presence of animals and their unique way of being in the world, which is naturally different from our own.
Laure Forlay, curator of the "Anima" exhibition.
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Presentation of the museum-truck
Regional mediators accompany these new exhibitions on the ground, to create moments of discovery, practice and sharing with local residents. Training courses, tours, open houses, art workshops and restitutions-vernissages are organized every week for around 500 participants.
Interview with designer matali crasset
What inspired you to design this new traveling museum?
matali crasset: I like to work on things that don't exist, to find new logics and insert life into them, or more precisely, living together. The idea was to create an intermediary space between the exhibition space dedicated to contemporary art and the outdoor space, so as to create hospitality and conviviality around the expanding truck. Like a circus that arrives on the village square and gives it a double reality, the truck magically opens up and doubles in size. Wings spread out on either side to protect outdoor workshop and exhibition areas, where visitors can settle in before or after their visit.
How did you imagine this space?
m.c.: I wanted to encourage something fluid and easy to implement. The additional outdoor spaces I propose open up at the same time as the truck. After that, all that's left to do is combine the seats. As for the interior, I wanted to transform the truck's standard universe into a warm and welcoming place. Some of the works will be placed and hung in the middle of the showroom, in the "workbench" area. It's not just a display tool: you can open drawers or take things out during your visit. This system encourages mediation that listens carefully and adapts to the dynamics of each group. On either side of the workbench, on the walls, we enter the world of the "cabinet of curiosities". The idea here is to show lots of little things, with a certain richness and diversity, so that artists and works of art can coexist.
What does the challenge of mobility mean to you?
m.c.: The challenge of mobility was to start with a standard truck and give it the possibility of both spatial expansion and magic. The vertical expansion of the 1st MuMo perhaps provoked something more exceptional, but I like the idea of a horizontal expansion for the MuMo - Frac. It's like opening a door, reaching out to people, inviting them in. This desire for accessibility had to be visible from the outside.
