Les Franciscaines were born from Deauville's innovative bet to merge and completely reinvent all the cultural services of the city within a heritage building erected in the 19th century. The site now houses a permanent museum of the city's collections, a temporary exhibition hall, a performance hall, a media library of 70,000 documents, an auditorium, a Fablab, artist residencies, etc. Three major annual exhibitions are organized there in partnership with the Institut du Monde Arabe (Arab World Institute) and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (National Library of France), as well as numerous live shows and debates. After a century of mainly religious history, the former convent of the Franciscaines of Deauville has found a second youth with more than 180,000 visitors since its opening on May 19, 2021.