A look back at the 2024 "Nuit Blanche" on the Institut Pasteur campus

On Saturday June 1, the Institut Pasteur took part in the 2024 edition of "Nuit Blanche," a cultural event organized by Paris City Council. For the occasion, the museum organized a tour of the contemporary artworks on campus.

Olivier Schwartz, Head of the Virus and Immunity Unit, and Alexis Matamoro-Vidal, a scientist in the Cell Death and Epithelial Homeostasis Unit, hosted the evening event dedicated to art and science, alongside Emma Leprêtre, collection manager, and Emma Laverdure, a trainee museographer at the Pasteur Museum.

Aï Nakano, a violinist at the Academy of the Paris Opera, provided some musical interludes during the tour, performing the Largo and Allegro Assai from Sonata no. 3 in C major for solo violin by Johann Sebastian Bach in the CIS, and the Recitativo and Scherzo op. 6 for solo violin by Fritz Kreisler in the Omics building.

222 lucky visitors shared this Nuit Blanche at the Institut Pasteur. The museum is keen to repeat and develop the event.

Further Art & Science tours will be organized for World Music Day on June 21. Keep an eye out to find out more in upcoming issues of the newsletter!

Watch the video of the event

Photos and video: François Gardy/Institut Pasteur