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Friday, 28 October 2011 - 18:00

Exhibition - Triennial of political posters

Triennial of political posters
From 28 october 2011 to 7 october 2012

Poster Triennial Policy is an international competition open to professional designers and students of schools of visual art on the theme of politics, namely the life in the city. These posters raise multiple issues: human rights, world hunger, minorities, racism and fascism, poverty and violence against women ... but also topics more in line with the news in recent years as the debate of Islamic headscarves, suicide of executives of large companies, global warming, etc..

This exhibition is an invitation to reflect on the… [Read more]

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A place for art and history

Although well-known for its battle fields, Verdun also posseses an invaluable architectural heritage to which the Episcopal (Bishop’s) Palace is a magnificant testimony.

In his memoires, Saint-Simon (first bishop of Verdun) regarded it as “the most vast and spendid Episcopal Palace that there is in France.”
It was Charles François d’Hallencourt, Bishop of Verdun, nicknamed “The Mitred Mason” by the writers of the era, who summoned Robert de Cotte in 1724 to reconstruct it; the first architect of Louis XV, renowned as one of the creators of the “Rocaille”style, the popular rockwork of the Rococo period.

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Next events

Exhibition — Friday, 1 January 2010 - 00:00

Exhibition - From War to Peace - permanent exhibition

Why do we wage wars? How can we create and conserve peace?
The exhibition tries to answer these and other questions [Read more]


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Le Centre Mondial de la Paix se situe dans un cadre prestigieux et chargé d’histoire.

Thanks to its location in the former Bishop’s Palace of Verdun, the World Center for Peace is the perfect place to organise meetings, symposiums, seminars… Therefore, it offers a prestigious surroundings to organise weddings and family gatherings.

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