Poster exhibition: The Parisianer – Chronicles of the Museum

The free open-air exhibition “The Parisianer: Chronicles of the Museum” is a storyboard exhibition of posters of the magazine The Parisianer on the grounds of the Botanical Garden at the Natural History Museum in Paris. The posters are on display from 20 May to 13 October 2021.

The posters show the National History Museum in pictures, marking specific events in the history of the museum itself. On the grounds are 21 posters that combine art, history, and science.

The works of The Parisianer also revive the historical moments when Voltaire, Buffon, or Paul Rivet were interested in the museum, not to mention the heroic acts of resistance of the Musée de l'Homme (Museum of Humankind) during the Second World War, the first arrival in France of a giraffe at the Paris Zoo, and the introduction of the blob at the Zoological Park of Paris.

The exhibition also takes viewers into the future – fantasized or feared futures – where Parisians can go to live on Mars or suffer from global warming – depicted in some posters.

Each poster tells a story, using details, colours, characters and above all, humour, poetry, and talent.

The Parisianer is an artistic project, led by a collective of 150 cosmopolitan artists. Inspired by the famous Front Page of The New Yorker magazine in America, these artists for the current exhibition create front page posters for an imaginary magazine called The Parisianer, with news of Paris. Each work is “a little gem of poetry and sweetness” says the museum’s promotion of the project.

These posters of The Parisianer will also be exhibited around Paris, at the airport, at Bercy Village, in the town hall, and in selected cities around the world – such as in the French Institute in Ukraine.

MARTINA NICOLLS

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MARTINA NICOLLS is an international aid and development consultant, and the author of: The Paris Residences of James Joyce (2020), Similar But Different in the Animal Kingdom (2017), The Shortness of Life: A Mongolian Lament (2015), Liberia’s Deadest Ends (2012), Bardot’s Comet (2011), Kashmir on a Knife-Edge (2010) and The Sudan Curse (2009).

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