Estuary Crossings Pack: culture at your fingertips
What was only a leisure ticket becomes a cultural pass. The Metropolitan Cluster of the Seine Estuary, which is in charge of the Estuary Crossings project, has entered into a new partnership with Les Franciscaines, the Villa Montebello, the MuMa and Bee Le Havre City Tour to promote access to culture for all. On simple presentation of a ticket for a crossing from Deauville-Trouville or Le Havre, discounts are instantly applied at these four major players in local tourism along the Seine Estuary. A turnkey day on the other side of the river with many advantages: no traffic or parking constraints, arrival in the city center, access to cultural sites at preferential rates... You have until August 23, date of the last crossing of the year, to take advantage of it!
Les Franciscaines, in Deauville
Last May 21, Franciscans celebrated its first year of operation and the 180,000 visitors who have passed through its doors. This new cultural space, which combines a museum, an auditorium, a performance hall, and exhibition, reading and documentation spaces, has been a boon to the national and international scene. Therefore, Les Franciscaines applies a discount on its two flagship products: the 2-exhibition day pass and the 3-exhibition day pass. These two passes offer access to:
- At the André Hambourg Museum (1909-1999)dedicated to the figurative painter, which renews its display and highlights still life and large meal scenes with the new temporary exhibition"A table avec André Hambourg".
- At the exhibition "Portraits of Great Masters of Photography"with Martine Franck, Robert Mapplethorpe, Helmut Newton, Jeanloup Sieff and Alice Springs, illustrating the different interpretations of the genre - until September 18
- At the exhibition "Van Dongen, Deauville fit me like a glove"a vibrant tribute to the man whom Deauville liked to call "The King of the Boards" and who painted the summers of Deauville for 50 years - until September 25
The Villa Montebello, in Trouville-sur-Mer
It is not located by the sea, and yet, the Villa Montebello is a remarkable residence in Trouville-sur-Mer, typical of the seaside architecture of the Second Empire. Commissioned in 1863 by the Marquise de Montebello to the architect Jean-Louis Célinsky de Zaremba to attract attention during the bathing season (July and August), the villa serves as an architectural showcase overlooking the sea: bow windows to let in the light, a grand staircase, a roof adorned with finials, all raised on a small hill, like a promontory offering a magnificent panorama of the English Channel. Listed as a historical monument in 1987, it now houses the collections of the Trouville-sur-Mer Museum (paintings, ethnographic objects, etc.), which focus on the birth of sea bathing and the development of the Côte Fleurie holiday resort.
The André Malraux Museum of Modern Art, in Le Havre
It is one of the first major tourist sites that one visits once disembarked on the Boulevard Clémenceau. A few hundred meters from the port, the André Malraux Museum of Modern Art (MuMa) unveils a monumental sculpture on the square, representing a ship's bow. Made of glass and steel, two materials that symbolically master light, the building reveals all its poetry by housing one of the most prestigious impressionist and fauvist collections in France. From the 15th to the 20th century, the museum retraces the works of the people of Le Havre by birth or adoption, from Monet to Dufy, through Courbet, Delacroix, Boudin and Renoir, each of whom transposed the effects of light variations into their paintings. It counts among its key pieces Les Nymphéas by Claude Monet, L'Excursionniste by Pierre-Auguste Renoir, La Parisienne de Montmartre by Kees Van Dongen or Le Yacht Pavoisé au Havre by Raoul Dufy.
The tour of Le Havre by bus
Tourist bus operator, Bee Le Havre takes passers-by on a panoramic ride aboard a convertible bus to discover the famous city center of Le Havre and its emblematic districts: Sainte-Adresse and its nickname "the Nice of Le Havre", the Perret district and its architecture listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site for its post-war reconstruction, the multicolored beach huts on the waterfront... With the help of an audio headset, comments and anecdotes flow in and allow to retrace the 505 years of history of the city since its foundation in 1517.
Practice
Offer valid until Tuesday, August 23, 2022 upon presentation of an Estuary crossing ticket for the same day.
Dates of the concerned crossings :
- July 10, 11, 23 and 24
- August 9, 10, 22 and 23
Applied rates :
- Les Franciscaines : 8€ for a day pass for 2 exhibitions / 13€ for a day pass for 3 exhibitions
- The Villa Montebello Museum : 2€ for a free visit of the museum and the exhibition "Gustave Flaubert
- André Malraux Museum of Modern Art: 4€ admission until June 24 / 6€ admission from June 25 for the big summer exhibition "Le Vent".
- City tour of Le Havre by bus with Bee Le Havre : 12€ for a 50 minutes tour
Please note: the days and hours of opening differ according to each provider. Please check their website for more information.