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On 26 January 2008, the Museum of Toulouse re-opened its doors to the public. After being closed for 10 years, the new architectural features impressed visitors. It is a unique creation of the practice of Jean Paul Viguier, which called on the international experience of Mermet®.

Mermet®, a manufacturer of hi-tech and decorative fabrics for solar protection, has once again shown its mastery and know-how in a large-scale project; 2,000 m² of fabrics, installed under the atrium windows and inside the double skin façade, protect the skeletons and other masterpieces of the Museum from light

Bay windows enclose the bones of the skeletons that make up the façades of the exhibition halls. The architect designed a ‘shop window' using Japanese walls in Mermet® fabric: fabrics which do not undulate and which express all the beauty of the great curved glassed-in windows.

An atrium window in E-Screen 7510 in the room ‘Le Grand Carré'
Made up of a 16-metre high atrium window, the ceiling of the Grand Carré is also supplemented by Mermet® fabrics, stretched on frames. This time, the E-Screen 7510 0202 White was selected for the enhancement of natural light. This great hall, with open access, needed to have excellent lighting while preventing glare.