Trains in France are being transformed into art museums

Museum by train

If the graffiti find in those gray spaces and corners its special place To give color to a street or avenue of a city, we can find other murals or canvases so that artists can show their exhibitions and thus users of certain services can admire the hand or ideas of those great painters.

SNCF, the French national railway service, has come up with a fantastic idea to encourage citizens from their country to visit their trains to admire works of art. And the thing is that the project wants there to be no excuse to travel anywhere while getting to know some high-quality paintings.

In a collaborative agreement with the American manufacturing company 3M, SNCF has given the trains a face lift so that their spaces become places where you can admire paintings and different visual expressions.

Museum by train

They cover the interiors with film that contains famous works of art so that passengers can be entertained while traveling to their destination points. Designs include pictorial flower and furniture scenes from the Palace of Versailles, impressionist art from the Musée d'Orsay and images from Cinema Gaumont, the world's oldest film company.

Museum by train

And not only do these series have a primary function for entertainment and art admiration, but they have even made life more interesting for passengers. It has also helped stop vandals from damaging trains. All one great cultural bet that if the spectators do not go to the museums, what better way than to take those works of art to the trains they use to go from one place to another.

Going to other parts and on the occasion of being able to find art in a multitude of spaces, these sculptures surely they will be able to capture your attention.


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