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The Musée virtuel du Var combines contemporary art, tablet-based mediation and virtual reality at Toulon's Maison de l’Étudiant. AI illustration
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In Toulon, a Museum Without Walls Brings Contemporary Art into Virtual Reality

From 5 October to 16 November, the travelling Musée virtuel du Var arrives at Maison de l’Étudiant with twelve works and immersive digital tools.

Does a museum necessarily need galleries, walls and a permanent address? The Musée virtuel du Var suggests otherwise. From 5 October to 16 November 2026, the travelling departmental project will be installed at Toulon's Maison de l’Étudiant with twelve works, interactive tablets and a virtual-reality experience.

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“En vogue ! Les marins et la mode” brings naval heritage and fashion design together at Musée Balaguier in La Seyne-sur-Mer. AI illustration
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In La Seyne, the Sailor's Uniform Tells Another History of Fashion

From 3 October 2026 to 19 September 2027, Musée Balaguier explores how naval clothing moved from regulation to popular culture and haute couture.

The striped sailor shirt, pea coat and naval trousers now belong as easily to fashion windows as to military history. Yet each began as functional clothing governed by strict rules. From 3 October, Musée Balaguier in La Seyne-sur-Mer presents “En vogue ! Les marins et la mode”, tracing the remarkable passage of naval uniforms into popular fashion and couture.

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The 2026 Fête de la science in Toulon explores food, the human body and research through the theme “Saveurs Savantes”. AI illustration
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In Toulon, This Year's Science Festival Begins on the Plate

From 2 to 12 October, “Saveurs Savantes” uses food, cooking and the human body as gateways into scientific research.

Can a samosa become a scientific object? In Toulon this October, apparently so. From 2 to 12 October 2026, the Fête de la science adopts the theme “Saveurs Savantes”, with workshops and events across the city. Food becomes a particularly accessible way to discuss biology, health, transformation and scientific thinking with audiences who may never normally enter a laboratory.

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An Alexander Calder mobile displayed as part of “Calder, équilibre en couleurs” at La Banque, Musée des Cultures et du Paysage in Hyères. AI illustration
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In Hyères, Calder Sets La Banque in Motion

The Musée des Cultures et du Paysage devotes its summer exhibition to the inventor of the mobile, revealing an artist whose work extended far beyond suspended sculpture.

A few pieces of metal, lengths of wire, coloured shapes and almost nothing holding them in space. Until 31 October 2026, La Banque, Musée des Cultures et du Paysage in Hyères, is presenting “Calder, équilibre en couleurs”. Bringing together 69 works, the exhibition looks beyond Calder’s famous mobiles to include gouaches, lithographs, bronzes and ink drawings, showing how Alexander Calder introduced actual movement into twentieth-century sculpture.

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Man Ray and Martin Parr are the focus of two major photography exhibitions in Toulon this summer. AI illustration
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From Man Ray to Martin Parr, Toulon looks at photography differently

Two summer exhibitions bring Man Ray’s surrealist experimentation into conversation with Martin Parr’s ironic observation of everyday life.

Toulon is hosting an unusual photographic face-off this summer. At the Musée d’Art, Man Ray shows how a camera can be used to invent images rather than merely reproduce reality. A few streets away, Martin Parr turns his distinctly British eye towards beaches, leisure and consumer habits. With both exhibitions still open in August, visitors can explore two radically different approaches to photography separated by almost a century.

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Design Parade 2026 marks twenty years of object design and ten years of interior architecture across Hyères and Toulon. AI illustration
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Design Parade marks twenty years of creativity in Toulon and Hyères

The 2026 edition celebrates a double anniversary, with exhibitions continuing until the end of August across Toulon and Hyères.

Design Parade has grown into more than a summer event in the Var. Twenty years after the launch of its object design festival and ten years after its Toulon programme devoted to interior architecture began, the 2026 edition looks both backwards and towards a new generation of creators. Exhibitions remain open until 29 and 30 August in Toulon and Hyères, offering a final opportunity to see how the festival has evolved.

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