About Sylvain Amic
Lived 1967 – 2025 (aged 58). Sylvain Amic was a French curator, museologist, conservator, art historian and school teacher.
Sylvain Aimé Louis Amic (; 26 April 1967 – 31 August 2025) was a Senegal-born French art historian. A member of the Academy of Sciences, Belles-Lettres and Arts of Rouen, he served as president of the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris from 2024 to 2025.
Career Amic was born in Dakar. He worked as a teacher before training as a curator at the National Institute of Cultural Heritage, graduating in 1997. He specialised in modern and contemporary art.
Between 2016 and 2022 Amic directed the Réunion des Musées Métropolitains Rouen Normandie (RMM), an umbrella institution of museums of the Métropole Rouen Normandie. In 2018 he was tasked, together with the curator Olivia Voisin, by then-Minister of Culture Françoise Nyssen with developing a project for the circulation of artworks between the French regions.
Honours Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2014)
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Who was Sylvain Amic?
French museologist and conservator
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Sylvain Amic was born on 26 April 1967 in Dakar.
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Sylvain Amic died on 31 August 2025 in Gard, La Roque-sur-Cèze.
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Sylvain Amic was a curator, museologist, conservator, art historian and school teacher.
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Sylvain Amic was French.
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