Olympic Flame at the Jardin du Musée Mac Val

On Sunday, the Olympic flame arrived at 5:15 p.m. at the Val-de-Marne Museum of Contemporary Art.

The Olympic flame for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games crossed the Val-de-Marne this Sunday, from the Orly tarmac, to arrive at the end of the day at the Duvauchelle stadium in Créteil. In seven stages, it passed as close as possible to the inhabitants in fifteen municipalities.

200 Flamebearers lit up the Val-de-Marne

There were therefore more than 200 who took turns throughout this Sunday. And as every day, many athletes who shone on all sports fields were present. It was the Olympic Nordic combined champion in Vancouver in 2010 and five-time world champion, Jason Lamy-Chappuis who was the first torchbearer in Orly airport.

After him, other athletes took part in this Relay day in Val-de-Marne, the boxer Estelle Mossely, Olympic champion in Rio, the karateka Aurore Bourçois, the judoka Coralie Haymé, the former French figure skating champion Anne-Sophie de Kristoffy but also Clara Mallien (taekwondo), Ugo Fleurot and Léo Bories (modern pentathlon) as well as the president of the French National Olympic and Sports Committee, Denis Masseglia.

The route also passed through the Domaine de Grosbois and its 412 hectares of woods and ponds. In Villejuif, the Olympic Flame started in front of the Gustave Roussy Institute, the first cancer treatment center in Europe, it then joined Vitry-sur-Seine passing in front of the MAC VAL, the first contemporary art museum located in the Parisian suburbs.

The MAC VAL is surrounded by a public garden of more than 10,000 m2. Decorated with sculptures from the museum’s collection, this departmental park was created in a minimalist spirit by landscaper Gilles Vexlard, professor at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure du Paysage in Versailles.

At the MAC VAL, the Val-de-Marnais attended the inauguration of an exhibition on basketball with the participation of the teams from Ivry-sur-Seine and Vitry-sur-Seine.

MAC VAL (Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne) is the first contemporary art museum to have been implemented in the Parisian suburbs and not in the capital. You will find nearly 2,000 works ready to be contemplated.

The museum will be open all day, with a new exhibition that will be inaugurated that day, in partnership with the two basketball teams from Ivry-sur-Seine and Vitry-sur-Seine. Several activities can also be found in the garden.

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