To mark the 30th anniversary of the museum, whose extension works begun in 2021 have just been completed, the Bibracte team is taking a look back at the incredible architectural adventure that has accompanied the development of its activities. To inaugurate its new temporary exhibition room, the Bibracte team is once again teaming up with architect Pierre-Louis Faloci to recount the stages in this adventure and decipher the major architectural principles and sources of inspiration.

The buildings of the Bibracte Museum and European Archaeological Centre punctuate the landscape of the Morvan des Sommets with their sober, elegant horizontality. Made of stone, concrete, glass and metal, their resolutely contemporary lines blend into the topography while underlining the "muted history of the place".
 

The temporary exhibition Reverse Archaeology retraces the original history of the architectural project designed by Pierre-Louis Faloci, from the first sketch in 1991 to the museum's recent extension. It's a project that has continued to evolve to meet the needs of the institution and its visitors, and which draws its inspiration from the masters of perspective, optics, cinema and contemporary art. In return, Bibracte marks a decisive moment in the architect's career.

At Bibracte, Pierre-Louis Faloci is developing major principles that forge an intimate relationship between the buildings and the site: concern for integrating the landscape, framing the view, modularity of spaces, and the use of motifs borrowed from the site and therefore, in this case, from archaeology, such as the grid pattern, the emergence of the walls and the stratigraphy of the materials that give rhythm to the façades.

Winner of the 2018 Grand Prix national de l'architecture, Pierre-Louis Faloci was awarded the prestigious Équerre d'argent in 1996 for the Bibracte museum.
This exhibition, conceived in close collaboration with the Faloci agency, follows on from the temporary exhibition organised by the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine in 2022, entitled Pierre-Louis Faloci, une écologie du regard.