The Bassins des Lumières
Giant paintings on concrete reflected on water.
P. Charpiat — CC BY-SA 2.5 · Symac — CC BY-SA 3.0 · U.S. Army Air Forces Spot Number F3683, Sortie 106G-682, Exposure LSV-3062 (taken by an aircraft of No. 544 Squadron RAF) — Public domain · jpm1 — CC BY-SA 3.0
The same technology and company as Paris's Atelier des Lumières — but the site makes the difference: a colossal wartime U-boat base with water basins reflecting the images, so scale, reflection and heavy history give an experience ordinary halls cannot match. One of the network's best-sited branches worldwide.
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Bordeaux's Submarine Base is a war relic turned museum of light: a colossal German U-boat base of concrete (1941) with five-metre-thick walls, left by the Allies as impossible to demolish and standing a silent witness — until its water basins became the Bassins des Lumières, the world's largest immersive digital-art centre. The experience is extraordinary: giant light shows project the works of great artists — Van Gogh, Klimt, Monet — onto the vast concrete walls and reflect them on the still water between the basins, music filling the imposing industrial void. Art meets heavy history in an unforgettable scene. For families and those seeking something different from traditional museums — and permanently cool (a summer refuge), on Bordeaux's northern riverbank.
Giant paintings on concrete reflected on water.
Five-metre walls the Allies could not demolish.
boulevard Alfred Daney, 33300 Bordeaux