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Culture & Musées is a biannual journal that publishes research on publics, institutions and mediations of culture. Culture & Musées is aimed at researchers and students as well as professionals and all those interested in the current evolution of museums and culture. The journal is heir to Publics & Musées, the first scientific journal on museology in french.

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45 | 2025
Des « nouveaux territoires de l’art » aux tiers-lieux culturels, vingt ans après

From “new art territories” to cultural third places, 20 years later
De los “nuevos territorios del arte” a los terceros espacios culturales, veinte años después
Edited by Émilie Pamart , Maud Pélissier-Thieriot and Franck Renucci

In 2004, the Culture & Musées journal devoted a special issue to the theme of ‘post-industrial cultural centres, squats and other places’ in order to describe and better understand the growth, in urban areas, of these so-called ‘intermediate’ experimental cultural spaces, described as ‘new art territories’ (Maunaye, 2004). Twenty years later, the present issue proposes to study a new ‘generation’ of intermediate cultural places, the most widespread of which are called ‘cultural third places’. The highly diverse morphology of these places makes analysis both difficult and a stimulating challenge, especially as their exponential development throughout France reflects the great enthusiasm they are attracting, particularly among public authorities, which view them as crisis-exiting schemes. The main hypothesis of this special report is that these contemporary hybrid cultural places – and cultural third places in particular – are revisiting, extending, reformulating and deconstructing some of the questions that were already being asked about ‘new art territories’. The four contributions selected for this issue prioritise study of the artistic processes and aesthetic experiences at work in cultural third places; their transformative potential despite the dynamics of institutionalisation to which they are subject; and their relationships with the cultural ecosystem established in France, and their international openness.

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