Resources

Educational packs

The Mucem provides teachers with educational packs to help them prepare for their visit.

Designed to help you prepare for your visit, they also offer educational suggestions for post-visit activities in line with school curricula.

Don Quixote(PDF,4497 ko)
Reading the Sky(PDF,3415 ko)
Mediterranean, episode 1: Inventions and representations(PDF,8401 ko)
Popular?(PDF,1206 ko)
Le Fabuleux terrier - A jumble of emotions(PDF,1442 ko)
The architecture of J4(PDF,1915 ko)
History of Fort Saint-Jean(PDF,2849 ko)
Mucem, Conservation and Resource Centre(PDF,8384 ko)
Map of the Mucem Conservation and Resource Center(PDF,5579 ko)
Jobs at Mucem, Conservation and Resource Centre(PDF,2530 ko)
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Mediterranean” resources with Educ’Arte

Mucem and the Educ’Arte platform have teamed up to offer a teaching sheet linking the platform’s video resources with the works and texts in the exhibition “Mediterranean: Inventions and Representations”.

The Mucem’s “Mediterranean” exhibition explores the ways in which multiple imaginations of this sea have been formed and disseminated. In particular, it examines the role of museums in this construction, explaining how art history and ethnology have contributed to the creation of “images” of the Mediterranean, all relative and all constructed: from the appropriation of the Greco-Roman heritage by European nations to Orientalist views of North Africa.

The teacher’s guide develops three themes related to the exhibition:

  • Theme 1: Orientalism, an image of a fantasized Mediterranean East
  • Theme 2: The use of ancient statuary: a shared heritage?
  • Theme 3: Breeds and museums
Education sheet (pdf, 1.30 Mo) Educ'ARTE

What is Mucem?

“Le Mucem, c’est quoi?” is a visitor’s guide with a series of activity sheets to help you get to know the museum. Discover the Galerie de la Méditerranée, the temporary exhibitions and the outdoor areas, including Fort Saint-Jean. This kit is ideal for a first visit to the Mucem, with suggestions for simple activities that can be carried out on site.

Free, given to group leaders as part of self-guided tours.

Produced in partnership with Francas 13.

What is Mucem -Full guide(PDF,6269 ko)
What is Mucem -Architecture sheet(PDF,1946 ko)
What is Mucem -Historical connections sheet(PDF,2397 ko)
What is Mucem -Fiche Fort Saint-Jean(PDF,1720 ko)
What is the Mucem -Garden of migrations fact sheet(PDF,2566 ko)

Resources for teaching religious facts and secularism

  • Laïcité Day with the Mucem, 2020

    This program is divided into two parts:

    1. Laïcité in everyday life

    Debate moderated by Emmanuel Laurentin, historian and producer of France Culture’s “Le Temps du débat” program.
    With :

    • Ghaleb Bencheikh, Producer and host of the radio program “Questions d’islam”, Islamologist and President of the Fondation de l’islam de France.
    • Denis Peschanski, Historian, Director of Research at the CNRS, specialist in the Second World War and the sciences of memory
    • Isabelle Saint-Martin, Director of Studies at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes-Etudes, Director of the European Institute of Religious Studies from 2011 to 2018

    While many resources are available to teachers on the subject of Laïcité, its teaching and day-to-day practice remain more complex. Between universal and multicultural ideology, what understanding of secularism should be promoted? How can Laïcité be reconciled with the teaching of religious facts? What difficulties do teachers report? Are they symptomatic of a more global situation?
    This debate will provide an insight into the history of the teaching of secularism, and question its definition, place and practice in the school context.

    2. Secularism through the collections of the Mucem (1:09:20)

    Broadcast of a video module shot at the Centre de Conservation et de Ressources du Mucem, presenting the Mucem’s reserves and a selection of objects from the collections that can be used to explore the different monotheistic religions, which will serve as the basis for a workshop for classes from cycle 3 to high school.

     


    A Les Films du Grand Large production for the Mucem.
    A project of the Department of Cultural Development and Audiences and the Department of Collections and Documentary Resources, in collaboration with all the museum’s departments.

  • Secularism in question

    To coincide with the ” Shared Holy Places ” exhibition, the Mucem organized meetings between students and personalities sensitive to the issues of sharing religions, living together and secularism. We invite you to watch these encounters and debates, so that you and your students can reflect on these social issues.

    Partner schools were treated to a visit to the Shared Holy Places exhibition and a forum-theater session or moving debate on secular issues, involving role-playing for the students. The students then interviewed the guest personality at their school.

    Guest personalities at schools

    • Namir Abdel Messeeh, director of the film “La vierge, les coptes et moi” (The Virgin, the Copts and Me)
    • André Azoulay, advisor to H.M. King Mohammed VI of Morocco
    • Elie Barnavi, historian and columnist, former Israeli diplomat
    • Claudio Monge, head of the Centre for Documentation and Intercultural and Religious Dialogue of the Dominicans in Istanbul
    • Leïla Shahid, former Palestinian Ambassador to the European Union

    The schools concerned

    • Lycée Antonin Artaud, 13013, Terminale class
    • Lycée Honoré Daumier, 13008, class of 1ere
    • Collège Jean-Claude Izzo, 13002, 3rd grade class
    • Collège Jean Moulin, 13015, 5th grade
    • Collège Le Ruissatel, 13001, 3rd year class
    • Lycée Thiers, 13001, class of 1ere

     

    Secularism in question
    Film length: 40m
    Filming took place between May and October 2015

     

    See also the educational pack for the “Shared Holy Places” exhibition:

    Shared holy places (pdf, 2.88 Mo)