Past programmes


2008/09 school year


Available only on the French version.

2007/08 school year
Marseille, escale sur les routes de l’Orient
(Marseille: Gateway to the Orient)


Building on our previous educational programmes, we are offering a new, extraordinary voyage of discovery through history for the 2007/2008 school year at the CICRP. "Marseille, escale sur les routes de l'Orient" invites students and teachers, from elementary through high-school levels, to discover Marseille, in the company of artists and cultural heritage specialists, as a place to which people throughout the Mediterranean came to trade goods and share cultures.

Marseille, the former Greek colony and gateway to the Orient, with its ruins, its monuments and its museums, offers a remarkable educational panorama.

This multi-level educational programme (elementary, middle and high schools), supported by the Rectorat of the Aix-Marseille school district and the Inspection Académique for the Bouches-du-Rhône département, leads students on a voyage to the Orient, from Marseille to Phocaea, during which they will rediscover the connections between Provence and the Orient, while feeding their imagination with new extraordinary journeys on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean. Students will encounter the Orient through painters, sculptors, architects and writers and then will create their own vision of the Orient, to be included in the exhibition devoted to this educational programme at the CIRCP in May 2008.

2006/07 school year:
Histoires et voyages extraordinaires en Méditerranée... (Extraordinary Tales and Adventures in the Mediterranean)

In conjunction with the extension of the project launched in the 2005/06 school year, "Marseille, le port. Regards vers la ville, regards vers le large et au-delà... (The Port of Marseille: Perspectives on the City, the Open Sea and Beyond)", for the 2006/07 school, the educational department invited participants on an imagined journey through the Mediterranean region. This educational programme offered participants the opportunity to discover or write extraordinary tales of the Mediterranean taking as inspiration a selection of cultural heritage objects found in the city of Marseille (art works, architecture, monumental decorations) and in the collections of museums, libraries and archives (paintings, sculptures, decorative objects, rare and precious books, etc.).

Another objective of these extraordinary adventures was to raise student awareness from a very early age of the conservation and restoration work performed on cultural heritage objects within museums.

An exhibition presenting the projects completed by students in the course of this programme was held in the Parc du 26ème Centenaire in Marseille in June 2007.

Page last updated on 17 July 2009.

CICRP – Centre Interrégional de Conservation et Restauration du Patrimoine
Groupement d'Intérêt Public à Caractère Culturel
21, rue Guibal, F-13003 Marseille FRANCE

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