MARILYN MONROE
AMERICA'S SECRET
From 1st June to 07 January 2024
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation / Diltz / Bridgeman Images
Who was Marilyn Monroe really?
Just the sex symbol of 1960s America?
In this exhibition, the public discovers the real Marilyn Monroe. The real Norma Jeane.
His passions for the various arts, his friendships with famous artists... His personal commitment to the civil rights movement and to stopping nuclear testing by the USA and the USSR.
A MARILYN
HAVE NEVER SEEN HER
White House Photographs - JFK Library of Boston. Cecil Stoughton
- + over 150 rare, previously unpublished photographs
- + Over 150 previously unpublished anecdotes by David Lawrence
- The original fishnet stockings worn by Marilyn Monroe in the film BUS STOP
- Necklace worn by Marilyn Monroe
- A pair of gloves worn by Marilyn Monroe
- Original birth certificate
- Reproduction of The Hand of God by Auguste Rodin, from the Musée Auguste Rodin
- An original drawing by Auguste Rodin
- Original photographs of Norma Jeane at birth taken by her mother
- The only replica in the world of the dress worn by Marilyn Monroe for President John F. Kennedy's birthday, May 1962
- Reconstruction of his bedroom, 1962.
- Gigogne table, signed by Maison Leleu, which Marilyn Monroe loved
- Handwritten letters
- The series of 10 original Marilyn lithographs, signed by Andy Warhol
- Original bracelet and earrings belonging to Marilyn
- Marilyn Monroe's library, her favourite books
