The Holography Museum was created on the 25th March of 1980 to promote holography, until then unknow to the French general public.
The essential mission of the museum is to inform, teach, present collections and organize exhibitions, both in France and overseas.

INFORMATION AND TEACHING

Since 1980, the museum has organized initiation to holography courses for the general public, as well as professionnal courses (interferometry for industrialists, laser techniques and live shows for lighting specialists and theatre techniciens).The course tutors were trained at The Museum for La Cité des Sciences and the Rectorat Museum, where laboratories were set up to practise holography.
The museum has also built a coach, converted into a laboratory with an exhibition for The Ministry of Research and V.V.F. This coach travels to summer holiday camps and visitors can create holograms.
THE COLLECTIONS
The museum's collections represent a unique richness and diversity : more than a thousand historical and artistic holograms from all over the world, of which about 100 are giant holograms, visible with white light or laser.
The collection also includes an important collection of holographic reproductions of objects from The Hermitage Museum and The Historical Museum of Kiev.
THE EXHIBITIONS

Besides numerous exhibitions in France (more than 300 in twenty four years ) The Holography Museum has allowed people to discover holography in many other countries, and with fantastic success.
(--> photo: exhibition Tokyo 94)
It is thus that the museum organized the first exhibition in China in 1983 at The Exhibition Palace of Peking on more than 2000 square meters. Four thousand people a day visited this exhibition. Since then, the museum's collections have toured the world.

Some references
of public exhibitions and shows
Canberra 100 000 visitors at the National Museum

Jakarta

35 000 visitors at T.I.M.
Budapest 50 000 visitors at the National Museum
Pekin 70 000 visitors at the Palace
of Exhibitions

THE CREATION

To complement the holograms acquired for the collections, works have been created in the museum laboratory with numerous artists.
We can cite ALEXANDER, Michael SNOW, Margaret BENYON , Jean GILLES and Josette RISPAL.

The Museum has left its location at the "Forum des Halles" (in the center of Paris) and is now looking for a partner to open the "World Museum of Holography".

WEB LINKS

SCIENCE

http://www.cern.ch
http://www.cnrs.fr
http://www-ima.enst.fr/ima_fr.html
http://www.iota.u-psud.fr
http://sfp.ihp.jussieu.fr
http://info.in2p3.fr/SFP
http://www.europeanopticalsociety.org

SCIENCES MUSEUMS

http://www.cite-sciences.fr
http://www.cnam.fr
http://www.palais-decouverte.fr

ART MUSEUMS

http://mistral.culture.fr/louvre
http://www.centrepompidou.fr
http://www.musee-orsay.fr
http://www.musee-rodin.fr

3D

http://www.univ.cnam.fr/hebergement/scf