Three new directors at Grenoble, Fécamp and Nice

27/8/24 - Appointments - Grenoble, Fécamp and Nice - We continue our series of articles of recent appointments at the head of French museums with a look at the Musée de Grenoble, the Pêcheries-Musée in Fécamp and the Musée Matisse in Nice, which have welcomed three new directors in recent months.

1. Sébastien Gokalp
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Sébastien Gokalp took over as Director of the Musée de Grenoble in January following the retirement of Guy Tosatto, who had been in charge for just over twenty years. A former history teacher with a degree in Fine Arts, Sébastien Gokalp worked for six years at the Centre Pompidou before becoming heritage curator in 2007. A graduate of the Institut National du Patrimoine, he took up his first post at the Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris before joining the Fondation Louis Vuitton in 2017 and the Musée national de l’Histoire de l’Immigration in 2019. Alongside these posts, which saw him embrace collections of modern art, contemporary art, history and society, he continued teaching, giving courses in the history of contemporary art at the Ecole du Louvre and then in museography at the Université Panthéon-Sorbonne. Now, at the age of fifty-three, he is leaving Paris to take charge of one of France’s most important public collections, renowned as much for its modern and contemporary holdings as for its ancient art. In addition to continuing his assiduous policy of studying and showcasing these collections - as witnessed most recently by the exemplary exhibition on the Grenoble school (see article) and, before that, by his prestigious cabinet of drawings (see the articles devoted to the Italian, French from the 16th to the 18th century, Nordic and French from the 19th century corpuses) - and the remarkable acquisition policy he has pursued over the last few years, the museum is also committed to the development of its collections. - and the remarkable acquisitions policy…