The class, the work!
"La classe, l'œuvre" is an artistic and cultural education operation proposed as part of the national event "European Night of Museums". It is part of the artistic and cultural education of the student and aims to enhance heritage collections for students and teachers. It is aimed at schools (from kindergarten to high school), museums in France, archives and labeled structures (FRAC, Art Centers, Maisons des illustres...).
A partnership between cultural structures and schools
Created in 2013, by the Ministries of Culture and National Education, and backed by the European Night of Museums "The class, the work!" is part of the student’s artistic and cultural education.
Its objective is to promote direct contact between students and collections through a year-long collaboration between museums of France and local schools and schools.
The stakes are twofold Encourage teachers to take advantage of local cultural resources and invite museums to diversify their mediation mechanisms in order to vary approaches and levels of reading of scientific and historical works and objects.
It is also the students' familiarity with museums and cultural institutions in general that is developed. Young people appropriate the heritage and give an interpretation in the form of plastic, digital, audiovisual, scenic, textual productions... rendered on the website of European Night of Museums.
Young people are finally invited to become cultural smugglers to their families and the public of the European Night of Museums.
By actively involving students and their families during the European Night of Museums, the operation aims to reaffirm and promote to the general public one of the essential missions of museums benefiting from the designation Musée de France: "design and implement education and dissemination activities aimed at ensuring equal access to culture for all".
It is important that the project is co-constructed by the institution and the class, based on an object or several objects chosen from the museum’s collections. A museum can lead several projects.
Principles of the operation
The operation is based on close collaboration between a class (from primary to high school) and a local museum. She encourages students to:
- study one or more works the museum or partner institution during the school year;
- imagine productions in connection with the work;
- design a mediation of the works studied for the European Night of Museums;
This system is emblematic of the artistic and cultural education approach, since it actively combines its three pillars:
- a meeting ;
- of the artistic practices ;
- of the knowledge (that the student must, in turn, be able to transmit them).
How to participate
Registration of museums and cultural structures wishing to participate
Museums and institutions are responsible for reporting their participation to:
- contact.lclo[@]culture.gouv.fr
- DRAC Grand Est Museum and Arts and Cultural Education Advisors must be copied (see contact details below).
To register, museums or institutions must mention:
- name and contact details of the museum and the project leader within the institution;
- name and brief description of the chosen work and project;
- name of school or institution and class level(s).
This year, registrations will be made via an open agenda that will be accessible from the website of the Ministry of Culture soon.
The platform "The class, the work!": valorisation and resources
The Canopé Network puts online a platform dedicated to the operation. Future participants are invited to browse the online platform to help them mature their projects. It has three main objectives:
- value all the projects carried out around the collections of French museums;
- promote and disseminate educational and cultural approaches who presided over the conduct of each project;
- create, over the editions, a collection of projects in which the actors of artistic and cultural education draw to invent new projects.
Operation coordination
Nationally The coordination and monitoring of this operation is carried out by the Directorate-General for Heritage at the Ministry of Culture, the Directorate-General for School Education at the Ministry of Education and the Canopé Network.
At regional and academic level : The coordination and monitoring of this operation is ensured by the dialogue bodies already set up on artistic and cultural education (which include representatives of the DRAC, the DAAC and the Canopé network).
The Academies are responsible for identifying schools interested in the project in the fall.
For the class, the work! , the members of these bodies have a role of advisors and prescribers with the actors of the artistic and cultural education of their territory. They validate, on the platform, the publication of information and documents related to projects in their region, in advance of the European Night of Museums.
They can advise museums that are looking for classes and classes, which are looking for a museum.
The class, the work! is first of all a device dedicated to the museums of France.
Its expansion to other museum structures is possible with the agreement of museum advisors.
Outside the museum field, projects carried out by public archives services and by labeled structures such as the Maisons des Illustres, the FRAC and the Centres d'art, must be notified to the councillors concerned, in conjunction with the museum councillors. Their restitution may take place during dedicated national days.
Learn more
Consult the list of museums of France in the Grand Est
European Night of Museums
The Cthesse l'oeuvre - Canopé Network
Portal "History of arts"
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