School groups
School groups
the Memorial offers several possibilities of tour for school groups
Since 2005, the Memorial had led more than 20,000 students each year in guided tours. Whether primary age, middle grades or high school students, the tour is specifically adapted to their level, to the courses they are taking, to their geographical origin and to the teachers’ wishes.
Beginning with the history of Alsace-Moselle, particularly between 1940 and 1945, the tour visit shows an example of the establishment of a totalitarian regime in a region, since these territories were the only ones in France to experience this. Coordination and suppression of individual freedoms, eviction, repression and deportation, hard labour, full-scale war and liberation…all these themes are shown with the help of posters, photos, documents, films and scenery. Other themes related to citizenship, such as diversity, otherness and racism are also addressed. This difficult history of Alsace-Moselle lead eventually to peace and European construction, this is why the tour ends in a 400m² space dedicated to European reconciliation and construction.
As a school group, you can visit the memorial by yourself, or download our smartphone application for free.
You can also ask for a guided tour in English. The guided tour costs 105 € per guide, for a group between 15 and 35 persons. If you are more than 35 persons in a group, you will have to ask for 2 guides. Please, check the possibilities bellow.
The tour lasts approx. 90 minutes and the group can explore the museum at its own speed after the guided tour.
MIDDLE GRADES AND HIGH SCHOOL
As a school group, you have the possibility of visiting on your own (with your smartphone) or accompanied by a Memorial docent.
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The guided tour, which lasts 1-½ hours, costs 105 € for a group between 15 and 35 persons. Beyond 35 persons, a second docent is needed. The tour is adapted to the student’s level, to their geographical origin and to the educator’s preferences.
As a complement to the visit, reserve a pedagogical workshop. For 1-¼ hours, these workshops take place in a room. They allow the children to deepen their reflection and to work on a theme briefly introduced during the visit. ONLY IN FRENCH.
How did the poster, which targeted the person in the street, become the propaganda tool preferred during the Second World War and used by the different powers?
The study of a selection of posters allows students to understand how the ones from Nazi Germany differ in their graphic style from the ones of the Allied democracies, and how the modern means of expression were used to service a racist ideology. The students are then led to reflect upon the role of the ad posters of today, which also impose a message in Western democracies.
Length: 1-¼ hours
Cost: 85 € (for 35 students)
ONLY IN FRENCH.
Through the example of annexed Strasburg, and using short film excerpts, this workshop is the chance to address the ideology of the Nazi regime, which sought to distract, educate, seduce and indoctrinate through the use of cinema. This session also brings technical vocabulary for image analysis, concrete tools to address the teaching of art
history. Lastly, this workshop is the chance to address in a different way the specific history of Alsace, a border province that lived through the experience of Nazism.
Length: 1-¼ hours
Cost: 85 € (for 35 students)
ONLY IN FRENCH.
Through the study of varied documents (photos and other iconic documents, personal documents, newspapers…) provided by our resources, students study the journey of the people of Alsace and Moselle shattered by war.
Length: 1-¼ hours
Cost: 85 € (for 35 students)
ONLY IN FRENCH.
Through concrete examples, students understand the European intervention in different areas of their daily lives.
Length: 1-¼ hours
Cost: 85 € (for 35 students)
ONLY IN FRENCH.
