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.

Eating the Images(PDF,10852 ko)

Mossi Traoré, fashion too(PDF,1962 ko)

Mediterranean: Inventions and representations(PDF,8401 ko)

Popular?(PDF,3462 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)

Mediterranean” resources with Educ’Arte

The Mucem and the Educ’Arte platform have teamed up to offer an educational worksheet that links the platform’s video resources to the artworks and texts in the exhibition “Mediterranean Women” : “Inventions and Representations.”

The Mucem’s “Méditerranées” exhibition explores how multiple perceptions of this sea have taken shape and spread. In particular, it examines the role of museums in this process, explaining how art history and ethnology have contributed to creating “images” of the Mediterranean—all relative and all constructed: from the appropriation of the Greco-Roman heritage by European nations to Orientalist perspectives on North Africa.

The educational guide explores 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?

“What Is the Mucem?” is a visitor’s guide consisting of a series of activity sheets designed to help you get to know the museum. Discover the Mediterranean Gallery, 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 done right there 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 exhibition “Shared Holy Places,” the Mucem sought to organize meetings between students and public figures who are committed to issues of interfaith dialogue, social cohesion, and secularism. We invite you to watch these discussions and debates to explore these social issues with your students.

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 resources for the exhibition “Shared Holy Sites”:

Shared holy places (pdf, 2.88 Mo)