Overview
- The Mucem and Digital Realty said they jointly chose not to renew their 2026 sponsorship to avoid public-order risks and safeguard artists’ working conditions.
- Région Sud’s Renaud Muselier and département–metropolis chief Martine Vassal announced the suspension of cooperation with the museum and demanded an emergency board meeting.
- The regional and departmental leaders criticized the museum’s move as yielding to extremist pressure, while the Mucem cited its obligation to maintain political neutrality.
- The museum said the Culture and Foreign Affairs ministries advised that no illegality had been established regarding Digital Realty’s activities to date.
- Activists who pressed the campaign hailed the decision as a victory and alleged the company’s links to Israeli real-estate actors, claims the museum disputes as unproven; Digital Realty operates four Marseille data centers and is building a fifth.