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The bridge between the Jules Verne Space and the House of Elsewhere.	Patrick Gyger, director of the House of Elsewhere, and JMM on the bridge.	JMM on the bridge.	The bridge ready for the opening.	Balloons will be used to uncover the bridge at the opening.
One side of the bridge with orange balloons viewed from the street (House of Elsewhere on the left, JV Space on the right).	The other side of the bridge with white balloons viewed from the street (House of Elsewhere on the left, JV Space on the right).	The bridge covered by balloons.	Patrick Gyger is satisfied, the opening can start...	2000 people (Yverdon-les-Bains has 20,000 inhabitants) gathered to open the JV Space (accessible only through the bridge).
JMM welcomes his wife, Anna Jean Mayhew...	...and guides her to the best sitting place.	The crowd outside of the entrance of the House of Elsewhere.	The crowd gathered between the Castle (in the back) and the House of Elsewhere (left).	Terry Harpold, JMM and Jean-François Thomas, SF author and President of the Foundation of the House of Elsewhere.
The JV Space, the bridge, the House of Elsewhere and the crowd seen from the entrance of the Castle.	Rémy Jaquier, mayor of Yverdon-les-Bains, is speaking first.	The second speaker is Jean-François Thomas.	JMM comes in third position...	Still speaking...
Hard too stop...	Trying to convince the audience...	The fourth speaker, Terry Harpold, University of Florida, speaks in English.	Three actors are ready to unveil the bridge...	...and call people’s attention.
The balloons begin to fall and people play with them...	...including JMM and his grandson Simon.	Terry Harpold and JMM look satisfied.	The crowd begins to use the bridge to see the JV Space...	...and pours into the JV Space.
Filled up with visitors.	The gallery is reserved for scholars and researchers.	Posters are presented in a vertically rotating way.	Another view of the crowd.	JMM presenting an item to JV scholars: Jean-Pierre Picot, Samuel Sadaune and Volker Dehs.
Anna Jean Mayhew in discussion with a Hillsborough (NC) resident, Charles Nordan.	New location for the items of the Margot collection (open bookshelves on the gallery).	There is a list of donors who helped to make the Margot collection what it is.	New location for the items of the Margot collection (open bookshelves on the gallery).	Locked bookshelves on the ground floor.
Verne scholars on the gallery, with Patrick Gyger: Agnès Marcetteau, Nantes (France), Patrick Gyger, Samuel Sadaune, Amiens (France), Volker Dehs, Glottingen (Germany), Terry Harpold, Gainesville (Florida).	JMM interviewed...	...by Swiss Television.	Garmt de Vries, Utrecht (The Netherlands) and Terry Harpold with the Margot collection.	Adjacent to the Margot collection, the JV Space houses a complete collection of all American SF pulps from 1926 to 2000, in a brand new condition.
Visitors in the Pulps room.	Pulps on shelves.	Another exhibition was opening the same day: Dinotopia.	Dinotopia is a creation of James Gurney, a New York artist. Dinotopia is a world where humans and dinosaurs live together in harmony.	JMM dialogues with James Gurney.
They laugh together.	They smile together.	Portrait of JMM by James Gurney.	A downside up view of the bridge.	Extraterrestrial creatures are greeting the visitors...
...outside of the House of Elsewhere.	They speak to Anna Jean Mayhew and JMM.	Other extraterrestrials are visiting Yverdon-les-Bains.	Very quickly, they...	...feel accepted...
...by the population.	This is a peaceful visit.	End of the day: sunset on the JV Space building.	October 5: gathering in the Castle for the JV Symposium.	Jean-François Thomas, JMM and Terry Harpold.
A nicely crowded...	...room of listeners.	Patrick Gyger welcomes everybody.	Terry Harpold opens the symposium.	Samuel Sadaune is presenting.
A panel of JV experts.	Volker Dehs (left) catches everything Samuel Sadaune is saying.	Volker tries to convince the audience...	...as does Philippe Burgaud, Paris (France).	During the break, Philippe Burgaud takes pictures and Terry Harpold tells the audience about the second part of the symposium.
Another panel of JV experts.	Jean-Yves Paumier, Nantes (France) is presenting...	...followed by Jean-Pierre Picot, Montpellier (France)...	...Ian Thompson, Glasgow (United Kingdom) makes his point...	...as does Philippe Valetoux, Saint-Malo (France).
Garmt de Vries dissects the cryptogram of La Jangada	The audience is listening...	...taking notes...	...and learning.	In the basement of the Castle, JMM and Philippe Valetoux.
In the basement of the Castle, Pat French, a Chapel Hill (NC) resident, Philippe Valetoux, Isabel Margot (JMM’s daughter) speaking to Anna Jean Mayhew, Volker Dehs conversing with Nancy Rosenbaugh, a Hillsborough (NC) resident.	Pierre Margot-Cattin and his wife, Isabel Margot.	The poster announcing the opening of the JV Space.	The JV Space...	...just before...
...the opening.	The Pulps room...	...just before the opening.	The JV Space...	...just before the opening.
The Pulps room just before the opening.	The JV Space...	...just before the opening.

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