Livre et musique

**From November 8, 2025 to January 4, 2026, the Dominique Bozo Library at LaM will present an exhibition co-created with the Bibliothèque Municipale Classée de Douai, which will host it in its third downtown location: Coeur de Bellain

The exhibition will invite visitors to explore music through an original medium: the book, and will provide an opportunity for an original dialogue between the two heritage collections. It will showcase works that reflect their authors? sensitivity to music, sound poetry and musical experiments.

Representations of instruments, musical works, scores and musicians will be revealed through manuscripts, incunabula and rare books from the 15th to the 21st century. The tour will explore the ways in which artists, writers, poets, publishers and printers illustrate, describe and experiment with new creative processes to make music visible, readable and listenable.

This exhibition will be a special occasion: an opportunity to discover little-known documents, rarely or never before exhibited, which will testify to the exceptional richness of the collections. It will also be an opportunity to explore the intersection of artistic disciplines over an important chronological period.

Finally, a library dedicated to art and music, accessible to all, and a cultural and artistic program will complete the event.

With works by Christian Boltanski, Théophile Bra, Georges Braque, Hubert Cailleau, Marc Chagall, Joëlle de La Casinière, Marceline Desbordes- Valmore, Raoul Dufy, Max Ernst, Ruth Francken, Juan Gris, Bernard Heidsieck, Henri Laurens, Fernand Léger, Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso and Man Ray.

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Curated by

**Stéphanie Verdavaine,**
Head of the Dominique Bozo Library at LaM

**Jean Vilbas,**
Curator in charge of heritage collections at the Douai library

Fernand LÉGER, _Cirque_, 1950. Publication, printed book Fernand Léger, _Cirque_, lithographs by Fernand Léger, Paris, Tériade, 1950 lithographs on velin d'arches. Bequest from M. Maurice Jardot in 2003. adagp, Paris