Thanks to the invaluable support of the Estate of Vivian Maier, the public was given access for the very first time to 142 previously-unseen archives belonging to the photographer. New scientific analyses was also presented, highlighting several aspects of her work and shedding light on her practice, including photographs taken by Maier, Super 8 and 16mm films and audio recordings. Original documentation such as a hat, cameras and studio photographs from the late 19th century that belonged to her showed her interests and potential influences in her work.

Vivian Maier welcomed 212,362 visitors, an excellent result in the public health context, making it the 6th most-visited exhibition at the Musée du Luxembourg since 2010. The aim of a diversified audience was achieved with a number of first-time visitors greater than those recorded for previous exhibitions. Visitors included enthusiasts, newcomers and fans of photography. The level of visitor satisfaction was very high, with 91% of visitors stating that they were satisfied or very satisfied with the content of the exhibition.

AROUND THE EXHIBITION At the museum The engagement resources were based on a variety of tour formats for a wide adult audience (general guided tour, "fashion" guided tour given by a specialised historian) and for children aged 3 and over ( kids tour, family tour). The latter was complemented by workshops for children aged 6 and upwards, in which they learned about the uniqueness of Vivian Maier's view of the world around her, and then recreated the photographer's world in miniature to take home with them. The engagement activities also saw a massive return of schoolchildren, with 4,730 pupils and students visiting the exhibition as part of their schooling. The cultural engagement offer was very well received by the public, with a satisfaction rating for guided tours of 4.9/5.

The multidisciplinary cultural programme that accompanied the exhibition was aimed at a wide audience and was a great success. The lecture series, which was sold out, featured general themes on the subject of the exhibition (introduction to the exhibition by the curator, a book event on Gaëlle Josse's Une femme en contre-jour) or more specific ones, covering a particular element of the work, from the omnipresent evocation of architecture (Chicago et son architecture/Chicago and its architecture with Claude Massu, architectural historian, Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne) to the stylistic singularity of Vivian Maier's work (Vivian Maier, d'un moment à l'autre/from one moment to another, with Arnaud Claass, photographer and photography theorist). A film club evening was held as part of a now- recurring partnership with the cinema "Les 3 Luxembourg", during which the audience could watch or re-watch the documentary made in 2013 by John Maloof, which tells the story of how Vivian Maier's photographs were discovered and provides information on her life, thanks to a tireless research work. To mark Nuit Blanche, nearly 700 visitors were able to take part in an exploration of the unique, humorous, empathetic, mysterious atmosphere of Vivian Maier's photographs, thanks to poet and novelist Céline Walter, who read the poetic texts she wrote for the exhibition catalogue in front of the works, with the evening s atmosphere punctuated by jazz music sets inspired by the heydays of Chicago clubs. Finally, to please the youngest visitors and those accompanying them, and echoing Vivian Maier's desire to help the children in her care discover the world around them in order to awaken their curiosity, the Musée du Luxembourg put on four sessions for a unique experience between the children and someone looking after them, entitled Me and my nanny (Ma nounou et moi). After the child and person accompanying them took a short specifically adapted tour, they posed together to have their photo taken by a photographer and then left with their souvenir portrait.

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