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→ Practical InformationPrices for the activities described below, in addition to Citadel admission
For reservations: no more than one tour or workshop per child from May through July, subject to the availability of docents.
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Since the exhibition halls cannot accommodate an entire class, the museum offers a tour-and-workshop program led by two museum educators: while the first group takes a guided tour of the museum, the second group participates in an educational workshop. The groups then swap places.
The guided tour provides a comprehensive overview of the museum’s collections related to World War II. The workshop allows participants to explore a specific theme in greater depth. This format thus offers the opportunity to reflect together on the rise to power of a totalitarian system, the collapse of a democracy, and the parallels with our societies today. It also highlights ways to oppose and resist.
Please note that we are able to accommodate all types of visitors. For specific needs, such as a customized or adapted tour, please contact the education team: mediation.mrdb@citadelle.besancon.fr
“My War Diary”: The Daily Life of a Young Girl from 1939 to 1946
Tour: Discover the history of World War II, the Resistance, and the deportations through the museum’s collections, and get a glimpse into the daily lives of the French people in the early 1940s.
Workshop: How can we understand the impact of World War II on an individual’s life? How can we cope with upheavals in our daily lives? How can we keep in mind that, for people living at that time, the future was not predetermined?
Through selected excerpts from the personal diary of Jeanne Oudot, a teenager from a village in the Doubs region, students discover, page by page, how individual stories and broader historical events intertwine.
Duration: 2 hours (1 hour and 15 minutes for the tour, 45 minutes for the workshop) - Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays
Group Size: 1 class divided into 2 groups (up to 18 students per group)
Price: €3.70
* NEW – In the Face of Persecution: From Anti-Semitism to Extermination (1933–1945)
Tour: Discover the history of World War II, the Resistance, and the deportations through the museum’s collections, and get a glimpse into the daily lives of the French people in the early 1940s.
Workshop: How did hatred of Jews become institutionalized? By what means and with what tools did the Nazis and the collaborationist Vichy government implement their anti-Semitic policies?
Through the study of various archival sources, students explore the life stories of people who faced exclusionary laws and the process of genocide, as well as the reactions of those who sought to act to save the persecuted men, women, and children.
Duration: 2 hours (1 hour 15 minutes tour + 45-minute workshop) - Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays
Group size: 1 class divided into 2 groups (up to 18 students per group)
Price: €3.70
Defying the Forbidden: Resistance and Society
Tour: Discover the history of World War II, the Resistance, and the deportations through the museum’s collections, and get a glimpse into the daily lives of the French people in the early 1940s.
Workshop: What can be done in a country at war where daily life is difficult? What are the different forms of engagement? How can we define resistance?
Through a selection of examples, students explore the complexities of war to discover the connections between the Resistance and society.
Duration: 2 hours (1 hour 15 minutes tour, 45-minute workshop) - Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays
Group Size: 1 class divided into 2 groups (up to 18 students per group)
Price: €3.70
Clandestine Sketches: Creating to Survive
Tour: Discover the museum’s most treasured collection—the “Art in Deportation” 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 prisons and camps? How did they manage to find the necessary materials? Did they all draw the same things? In the same way?
In this workshop, students discover the treasure of the museum’s collections: the “Art in Deportation” collection. Unique in Europe, this collection highlights artists who risked their lives by drawing in Nazi camps and prisons.
Duration: 2 hours (1 hour 15 minutes tour, 45-minute workshop) - Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays
Group Size: 1 class divided into 2 groups (up to 18 students per group)
Price: €3.70
The Power of Images: Vichy Propaganda Through Posters
Tour: Discover the history of World War II, the Resistance, and the deportations through the museum’s collections, and get a glimpse into the daily lives of the French people in the early 1940s.
Workshop: How do you read a poster? How do you interpret an image? How do you understand the messages they convey? Through an analysis exercise, students explore how the dictatorial Vichy regime used images and words to spread its ideology. And what about today?
Duration: 2 hours (1 hour 15 minutes tour, 45-minute workshop) - Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays
Group Size: 1 class divided into 2 groups (up to 18 students per group)
Price: €3.70
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