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Renaissance. Gates of modernity
March 21 to November 30, 2025

With the 16th-century palace once again open to the public, the MUDO-Musée de l’Oise is celebrating the Renaissance with an exhibition devoted to this historic period, during which a powerful burst of creativity swept across the whole of Europe, helping to shape the modern world.
The Renaissance refers to a particularly innovative trend that shaped the challenges of Europe?s changing societies for over two centuries, to an awareness of renewal driven by reflection on Man and the world, reflected in an unprecedented scientific and intellectual boom, and to a return to our roots.
Beginning in Italy, the Renaissance saw an irrepressible surge in creativity that spread to France and its various provinces from the 15th century onwards, followed by Spain and Northern Europe, with Flanders and Germany. Common trends emerged in these different creative centers, such as the emergence of new subjects, some borrowed from the rediscovery of Antiquity and its myths, and the development of genres with a promising future, such as landscape and portraiture.
A new artistic, philosophical and scientific sensibility was emerging: it was the era of scientific discoveries and revolutions, such as the printing press, that encouraged the spread of these new trends and anchored European societies in an unprecedented modernity.
The exhibition brings together paintings, sculptures, prints, ceramics and objets d?art to rediscover the key features of this period of profound historical, intellectual and artistic upheaval. This journey between Flanders, Italy and France, in the company of such prestigious artists as Leonardo da Vinci, Sandro Botticelli, Paolo Veronese and Antoine Caron, gives the MUDO-Musée de l?Oise the opportunity to bring to light works that have not been exhibited for many years, while celebrating its own renaissance

Curator: Alexandre Estaquet-Legrand, heritage curator and director of the MUDO-Musée de l’Oise

The 9 panels created by Beauvais?s Municipal Archaeology Department reveal the richness of the Maladrerie Saint-Lazare, and provide an insight into the identity of a medieval leper colony and its practices. The exhibition is the fruit of studies of the various excavations carried out on the site since 2002.
By putting the site into perspective on a larger scale, and by focusing on a number of features, the aim is to discover the unprecedented character of this place of hospitality.

In partnership with the Service Archéologique Municipal.

Local producers’ market: fresh produce (cheese, fish, etc.), foodtruck…

This photography festival covering the whole of the Hauts-de-France region returns this year with some forty exhibitions in an area stretching from Berck-sur-Mer, Amiens, Beauvais, Clermont-de-l?Oise to Noyon.

The theme of this 22nd edition is Habiter, in keeping with the artistic and cultural program surrounding the festivities surrounding the 800th anniversary of Beauvais Cathedral. In Beauvais and the surrounding area, over twenty photography exhibitions will explore architecture and heritage through the eyes of photographers. But also what it means to inhabit a territory, a city, questioning the intimate notion of ?home?, habitat and what it means in a political and sociological context.