The Fort of Exilles houses two permanent museum areas and offers two guided visitor routes enriched by theatrical sets of great evocative impact conceived by the artist Richi Ferrero.
Iron, rock and steel are the elements chosen to create a rigorous exhibition layout, studied to blend with the austere atmosphere of the fortress, in which the ancient history of the Fort of Exilles is told, from early medieval times to our days. Great iron frames cover the right wall
of the exhibition route like a ribbon; the history of the fort unfolds like a guiding thread of memory. Maps, sketches, drawings, plans and sections: a long tale through the evolution
of fortified architecture. The portraits of sovereigns who were decisive in the history of Exilles hang along the opposite walls. In the middle of the visitor route, six models, six grey bodies the colour of the rock show in an immediate and three-dimensional way the fort's development; they hang suspended on steel cables, imparting a light touch to the overall design while leaving a clear view of the architectural space. Half-way along the route, a flow
of highly evocative moving images bring to mind 'other' architectural impressions, reminding us that the fort is not just the result of engineer's calculations and architects' skills but the voice of those who have lived, suffered and fought among these stones.
of the exhibition route like a ribbon; the history of the fort unfolds like a guiding thread of memory. Maps, sketches, drawings, plans and sections: a long tale through the evolution
of fortified architecture. The portraits of sovereigns who were decisive in the history of Exilles hang along the opposite walls. In the middle of the visitor route, six models, six grey bodies the colour of the rock show in an immediate and three-dimensional way the fort's development; they hang suspended on steel cables, imparting a light touch to the overall design while leaving a clear view of the architectural space. Half-way along the route, a flow
of highly evocative moving images bring to mind 'other' architectural impressions, reminding us that the fort is not just the result of engineer's calculations and architects' skills but the voice of those who have lived, suffered and fought among these stones.
Six models, six grey bodies the colour of the rock that gave the fort its shape, sketches, drawings, plans and sections: Exilles, a building and its transformations, a war machine that grows powerful and
threatening over the centuries.
