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A collection of contemporary art is above all a promise of discovery in permanence, an enchantment that is continually renewed and shared through encounters. Over seven months, the exhibition program "Alchemy of Encounters" presents a fresh presentation of works from the Lambert Collection across both 18th-century townhouses.Like squares on a…

Founded in 2008, the association Les Amis de la Collection Lambert, under the honorary presidency of Princess Jeanne-Marie de Broglie, has set itself the objective of contributing to the development and the influence of the Collection by supporting it in all its activities: publishing catalogs, contributing to the production of exhibitions,…

For a number of years, the Regional Avignon-Provence Orchestra and the Collection Lambert have wanted to collaborate and develop the connection between music and contemporary art. In 2017, a partnership was started with workshops around the Pom’s Concerts. During these gatherings organized in the exhibition rooms of the Collection Lambert, the…

The museum continues its series of presentations of the Collection Lambert, exploring, in a broad panorama of sensibilities, the singularity of this unique collection of artworks assembled with the discernment of a key figure in the art of the second half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st.

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Started in the 1960s, the Collection Lambert represents the taste, aspirations and passions of its collector. An art dealer since the time he started his collection, Yvon Lambert fought against the academicism of French painting and its refusal to acknowledge that after the war, the world’s center of creation was no longer Paris, despite its…

The buildings that house The Collection Lambert, placed at its disposal by the City of Avignon, have an exceptionally rich heritage. Two beautiful mansions, the Hôtel de Caumont and Hôtel de Montfaucon, built in the 18th century by Jean-Baptiste Franque, have been remarkably renovated by Rudy Ricciotti and the brothers Cyrille and Laurent Berger…

The Collection Lambert in Avignon is a unique contemporary art museum, the brainchild of the gallerist and art collector Yvon Lambert, who donated to the French State an exceptional collection of major works from the second half of the 20th century and the early 21st. Hosted across a pair of magnificent 18th-century mansions in the center of…

The exhibition, entitled “Patrice Chéreau, An Imaginary Museum – July 3 – October 15, 2015”, is the first to pay homage to this giant of theatre, opera and film who, since his death in October 2013, has become a national icon in France.

The year 2014 marks a watershed for the Collection Lambert in Avignon. Indeed, so as to offer an exceptional home to the important donation made by Yvon Lambert to the French state, comprising 556 contemporary artworks, the Collection Lambert must close its doors to the public until the summer of 2015 during the site's extension.