Schools
Key stage 3 (11-14)
History notebook: "The World from 1918 to 1989"
Complete your pupil's visit with a history notebook.
If you wish to visit the Caen Mémorial museum with British pupils, this notebook is designed with them in mind. It can also be used by pupils from the European streams.
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Educational workshop: "Daily life in France during the German Occupation"
The workshops set students educational tasks to complement the work done during their visit to the museum. Children are shown a range of objects and documents from the period so they can analyse their meaning, purpose and historical interest.
Learning goal: this workshop invites children to see for themselves how French people lived during the Occupation, after analysing a number of documents and examining several objects.
Educational workshop: "Resistance/collaboration"
The workshops set students educational tasks to complement the work done during their visit to the museum. Children are shown a range of objects and documents from the period so they can analyse their meaning, purpose and historical interest.
Learning goal: by observing and analysing documents and objects, this workshop will help pupils understand the various forms of resistance and collaboration: everyday resistance, armed resistance, economic, media and police collaboration… The aim of this session is to show the complexity of the concept of engagement during the Occupation.
The D-Day Landing Beaches
Guided tours
How the site visits are organised:
- The guide meets you at the Caen Mémorial museum, in your coach (which must be fitted with a microphone).
- During the outbound trip, the guide gives an introduction which sets the D-Day landings against the general background of the Second World War. They explain why Normandy was chosen to reconquer Europe, and the stakes involved in the D-Day landings.
- At the end of the circuit, return to the museum to drop the guide off.
The 3h30 circuit (visit 2 sites)
- The Longues-sur-Mer Battery
- The American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer
or
- The German cemetery in La Cambe
- The American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer
The 5h circuit (visit 4 sites)
- Arromanches artificial harbour
- The American cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer
- Omaha Beach
- Pointe du Hoc
Send us a message at resa@memorial-caen.fr or contact us on social networks for further information.
For any reservation please call +332 31 06 06 45.
