General Presentation

From history museums to libraries, theatres, dance companies and bookstores, this interactive Atlas gathers together more than 1800 cultural structures and facilities spread around the “Lille Métropole” area, in its cross-border dimension, and the mining area of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais.
To consult the maps in the Atlas, it is possible to select all or part of these cultural structures and facilities via two types of search :

Search by «domain»

9 domains have been predefined :

	Theatre
	Dance
	Classical music and opera
	Other music
	Audio-visual arts and cinema
	Literature
	Fine arts
	Museums
	Activities and Sensitisation

Within each of the different domains, each cultural structure and facility is described by its activity(ies); four possible activities fields have been defined: production, distribution, conservation and training.
A fifth activity field, commercialisation, which isn’t, by the way, present in all the domains, has been merged with the distribution field.
(You can click to have access to the activities that correspond to each of the 9 domains).

When you choose a search through a domain, all the cultural structures and facilities concerned appear on the map. An icon represents each structure or facility for each of its activities.

Some facilities have activities in a number of cultural domains. This is the case, for example, of the “Phénix” in Valenciennes that has activities in the dance, music and theatre domains. This facility therefore appears on the maps as soon as one of these three domains is selected in the search.

Other facilities have a number of activities in the same cultural domain. This is the case for the “Théâtre du Nord” which has a theatre, a production facilities and a dramatic arts school; it will therefore appear on the «Theatre» domain map and will be represented by three icons, one for each of the three activities.

Search by «theme»

It is also possible to consult the Atlas according to the 7 themes below :

By carrying out a search according to one of these themes, the cultural structures and facilities concerned appear as a whole on the maps, whichever cultural domain it belongs to. In this way, when carrying out a “Festivals” search, we get the “Festival de Jazz de Tourcoing” as well as festival “dans@tack” in Courtrai.

The “theme” search does not overlap on the “domain” search; both approaches are different and complementary. The representation method of the cultural structures and facilities remains unaltered; it corresponds to the description below.

The «major facilities» are those that correspond to the following criteria :
- an outer-regional influence (importance of an outer-region audience) or a minimum, inter-communal influence (influence on a number of communes)
- a great cultural interest (rare collections, renowned creation structures and premises, etc.)
- a major support from the public sector (financial support from the public sector above 750 000 euros per year).


Key reference

To simplify the reading of the maps, all icons that appear on the maps will respect the following logic.

Each shape corresponds to a type of facility or structure:

Each cultural function corresponds in turn to a range of colours:

			... for creation and production
			... for distribution
			... for training
			... for conservation