Exposition - Les vitrines orphelines

From Friday, April 17 to Sunday, June 28, 2026, the museum hosts the poignant photographs of Franck Delautre: forgotten shop windows, silent witnesses to the towns and villages of our childhood.

Opening reception and inaugural talk with the artist on Friday, April 17 at 6 p.m.

“Today’s ordinary is tomorrow’s history.”

Since 2014, Franck Delautre has been crisscrossing France by bicycle, camera in hand, to immortalize the last orphaned shop windows of the 20th century: faded windows, silent storefronts, abandoned shops, storefronts of small businesses abandoned, often for decades.

A professional photographer since 1995 and a published author-photographer, he documents this fragile heritage with both restraint and unwavering dedication: “My priority, our priority, is that these storefronts not sink like film sets into oblivion forever.” "His photographs reveal the modest beauty of peeling facades, mute signs, lowered curtains, so many discreet presences, reflections of a vanished world.

The exhibition resonates with the museum's scenes of the old town, extending through images the stories told by the objects.

To further explore the exhibition, Franck Delautre's book, *Les Vitrines orphelines* (The Orphaned Shop Windows), is available for purchase on the Suzac publishing website: https://www.suzac.fr/catalogue/vitrines-orphelines/