Children's groups

As the exhibition rooms can't accommodate a whole class, the museum offers you a workshop tour supervised by two mediators: while the^1st group tours the museum, the second takes part in a workshop.

Visit: discover the history of the Second World War, the Resistance and deportation through the museum's collections, and immerse yourself in the daily life of French people in the early 1940s.

Workshop: how to grasp the impact of the history of the Second World War on the scale of a lifetime? How do we cope with the upheavals of everyday life? How can we keep in mind that, for our contemporaries, the future was unwritten? Immerse yourself in Jeanne Oudot's diary, and discover how history, big and small, resonated with each other.

As the exhibition rooms can't accommodate a whole class, the museum offers you a workshop tour supervised by two mediators: while the 1st group tours the museum, the second takes part in a workshop.

Visit: discover the history of the Second World War, the Resistance and deportation through the museum's collections, and immerse yourself in the daily life of French people in the early 1940s.

Workshop: 1933-1945. Twelve years were enough to exterminate nearly 6 million Jewish women, men and children. In occupied Europe, what means and tools did the Nazis and the collaborating Vichy government use to implement their anti-Semitic policies? Drawing on a variety of archives, students will discover how people's lives were affected by the laws of exclusion and the genocidal process. Faced with the violence of persecution, men and women risked their lives to help and save Jews from extermination.

As the exhibition rooms can't accommodate a whole class, the museum offers you a workshop tour supervised by two mediators: while the 1st group tours the museum, the second takes part in a workshop.

Visit: discover the new temporary exhibition at the Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation in Besançon, designed around an everyday object: the suitcase. Now synonymous with escape or travel, the suitcase illustrates other realities in the context of the Second World War: the exile of Spanish Republicans, the exodus, the fight of the Resistance, deportation, the extermination of Jews and the preservation of the traces of history for future generations. Drawing on its own collections and numerous loans from other institutions, the museum explores this object and its various uses.

Workshop: How do you reconstruct a life at war from scattered documents? By discovering a selection of archives, students question and compare them, and learn about the work of historical investigation.

As the exhibition rooms can't accommodate a whole class, the museum offers you a workshop tour supervised by two mediators: while the^1st group tours the museum, the second takes part in a workshop.

Visit: discover the history of the Second World War, the Resistance and deportation through the museum's collections, and immerse yourself in the daily life of French people in the early 1940s.

Workshop: what to do in a war-torn country where daily life is difficult? Why and how do you get involved? What are the different forms of commitment? Using a selection of examples, explore the complexities of war and discover the links between the Resistance and society.

As the exhibition rooms can't accommodate a whole class, the museum offers you a workshop tour supervised by two mediators: while the^1st group tours the museum, the second takes part in a workshop.

Visit: discover the treasure trove of the museum's collections, the deported art collection, and immerse yourself in the daily lives of these artists who drew at the risk of their lives.

Workshop: why did some deportees draw in Nazi camps and prisons? How did they manage to find the necessary materials? An opportunity to ask questions about these drawings, so essential to understanding history.

As the exhibition rooms can't accommodate a whole class, the museum offers you a workshop tour supervised by two mediators: while the^1st group tours the museum, the second takes part in a workshop.

Visit: discover the history of the Second World War, the Resistance and deportation through the museum's collections, and immerse yourself in the daily life of French people in the early 1940s.

Workshop: how to read a poster, how to decode an image? What messages do they convey? Through a decoding exercise, students explore how Vichy used images and words to spread its ideology.