BOOKSHOP

The museum bookshop is integrated into the museum visit and is run by museum staff. Devised by Andrée Putman as a curiosity cabinet, the bookshop has imposed itself in the entire PACA region as the only place proposing a very specific selection of publications on national and international contemporary arts, whilst all other contemporary art museums have preferred to diversify, offering a more generalised choice. Three sections are displayed: catalogues of biennials or large scale monographic exhibitions, a specialised selection of contemporary art with a large choice of publications on individual artists and finally the Collection Lambert publications on the collection (Rendez-vous), or the large-scale exhibitions of the past few years (Artists' Collections, Theorema, Figures de l'acteur, on Cy Twombly or Andres Serrano and the Comédie-Française...).

More than 25 artists' editions have been produced in the course of these first seven years - certain at very affordable prices (David Shrigley, Jonathan Monk...) or others more costly due to their exceptional rarity (Louise Bourgeois, Sol LeWitt, Lawrence Weiner...)This activity has expanded so rapidly that it has become an entirely separate department. In accordance with our wishes as well as the artists', all the revenue from these sales is exclusively devoted to the creation of exhibitions at the museum.

THE RESTAURANT

The restaurant METropolitan opened its doors in Summer 2007 (same opening times as the museum) proposing a cosmopolitan menu of gastronomic dishes with Japanese accents. As the museum wishes to be a convivial and generous place rather than a temple of sleeping masterpieces, part of the courtyard is transformed into a shady terrace, filled with coloured furniture specially created by Andrée Putman in 2000. Visitors are at leisure to have lunch or tea in the shade of the age-old plane trees.

The METropolitan will also be a meeting place for regulars to the Collection Lambert, a place for readings, as was the case in 2006 with the visit of Denis Polyadès during the Avignon Theatre Festival or  Andréa Férréol on the occasion of Cultural Heritage Day. At the end of the afternoon, children will also find their way to the restaurant for a birthday snack organised by museum education staff.