CAIRN, Art Center

  • Museum
  • Arts and culture
Elevation : 604m
10 montée Parc St Benoît, 04000 Digne-les-Bains
CAIRN ( Informal Art Center for Nature Research) has the mission to connect and shape its surrounding region through the eyes of various artists like Mark Dion, Delphine Gigoux-Martin, Herman de Vries or Andy Goldsworthy.
Created in 2000, on the initiative of the Gassendi Museum, the Cairn is an artistic laboratory supporting and spreading contemporary creations in a rural area. It offers exhibitions made by artists in accordance with a cultural programme and mediation actions with different publics. In partnership with UNESCO Geopark and local authorities, the CAIRN art centre produced an artwork collection on the Alpes de Haute-Provence territory. Conceived with the context in mind, disseminated near villages or along mountain trails, those artworks produced by the Cairn invite visitors to discover the landscapes they travel through in another way, offering a different point of view on locations, history and local traditions.
The CAIRN art centre is part of BOTOX(S), the contemporary art network of the Alps and Riviera, of d.c.a / French association for the development of contemporary art centres and of the ELAN network (European Land Art Network) and it benefits from the financial support of the Ministry of Culture/DRAC Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur Region and the city of Digne-les-Bains.
Focused on contemporary art, the CAIRN art centre is part of the museum department of the City of Digne-les-Bains, a museum pole composed of two other departments :
- Musée Gassendi / Art & science
- Maison Alexandra David Néel / Art asiatique & Maison d’écrivain

Services

Services

Car park

Accessibility

Accessibility

Visual disability
Accessible for wheelchairs with assistance
Even flooring with no obstacles
Absence of protrusions > 2 cm
Minimum aisle width of 90 cm
Site, building totally accessible
Possibility of drop-off in front of the site
Incline >5% but reasonable

Groups (Max capacity)

Groups (Max capacity)
  • 25 Maximum number of people

Openings

Openings

From 1 April 2025 until 30 June 2025 - Open everyday
From 1 July 2025 until 31 August 2025 - Open everyday
From 1 September 2025 until 6 November 2025 - Open everyday

Location

Location

CAIRN, Art Center
Elevation : 604m
10 montée Parc St Benoît, 04000 Digne-les-Bains

Spoken languages

Spoken languages
  • English
  • French

Environment

Environment
  • Town outskirts
  • Close to a public transportation
  • Bus stop < 500 m
Updated on 20 May 2025 at 17:40
by Office de Tourisme Provence Alpes Digne les Bains
(Offer identifier : 4628041)
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