100 WORKS that speak of THE CLIMATE

Initiated by the Musée d’Orsay, this campaign aims to raise public awareness of global warming by holding exhibitions throughout the territory of France. More than one hundred works, paintings, sculptures, drawings and photographs, chosen from this public institution’s collections for their close connection to the theme, have been made available to all of France’s museums. The museums have been invited to choose one or several works to form the basis for an exploration of climate change-related issues. 

32 projects have been selected by the Musée d’Orsay at national level. For the exhibition in Mâcon, Printemps arctique (Arctic spring) by Anna Boberg was chosen to focus on glaciers and their development in the light of research carried out by glaciologists in recent years. 

A productive partnership was established with Université Grenoble Alpes and the Institute of Environmental Geosciences to provide an overview of the state of knowledge. 

For the Musée des Ursulines of Mâcon, the project was also an opportunity to highlight local impacts of atmospheric warming on animal life, particularly birds, by presenting work carried out by Association Ornithologique et Mammalogique de Saône-et-Loire. The migration flows of birds, and the conditions in which they live in the region, are regularly monitored by the association’s members. Their observations reveal significant changes in animal behaviour that are directly related to global warming.