Aleth Jourdan

Chief curator, Director
Musée du Vieux Nîmes and Musée des Cultures Taurines in Nîmes

After studying art history in Montpellier, Aleth Jourdan worked as an independent curator before joining the Fabre Museum in Montpellier, which she directed between 1988 and 1992. As a curator with the conservation department of the museums of the Gard between 1993 and 1999 (which runs five museums), she participated in the creation of the Sacred Art Museum of the Gard, Pont-Saint-Esprit, and supported a thesis in history of art on the modern art collection of the museum Albert of André of Bagnols-sur-Cèze. From 1999, Aleth Jourdan directed two museums in Ales, and the exhibition programme in a space dedicated to contemporary art. Since 2011, she has directed the Musée du Vieux Nîmes and the Musée des Cultures Taurines in Nîmes.