· Exile Memorial Museum Consortium: Consell Comarcal de l’Alt Empordà · With the sponsorship: · Collaboration: OPENING HOURS Opening hours: June to September Tuesday to Saturday: 10h - 19h Sundays and public holidays: 10h - 14h l’Exili Opening hours: October to May Tuesday to Saturday: 10h - 18h Sundays and public holidays: 10h - 14h Closed on Mondays Further information and reservations for guided tours: tel. (+34) 972 556 533 / [email protected] Perpinyà Programme of guided visits, La Jonquera workshop activities and routes of exile for groups Museu Memorial de l’Exili of adults and students Memorial de C. Major, 43-47 17700 · La Jonquera Tel. 972 556 533 Fax. 972 556 534 [email protected] www.museuexili.cat 0918 · Museu Memorial de l’Exili Museu Museu Memorial de l’Exili PRESENTATION EDUCATIONAL SERVICE The Exile Memorial Museum (MUME) in La Jonquera promotes recalling the history and The MUME educational service is at the disposal of groups of EDUCATIONAL PROPOSAL memory of our land’s exiles, and particularly the Republican exile adults and students and, in general, anybody wishing to reflect that emerged from the outcome of the Civil War of 1936-1939. upon questions such as collective memory, individual memories A. Guided visit Exile, however, is a phenomenon of universal proportions that and the recent history of Catalonia and Spain, Second-World-War B. Visit and workshop activities has affected and continues to affect large groups of men, women Europe, the Nazi genocide or the Americas that took in so many C. Routes of the Exile and children all over the world, and has to be considered in all its Republican exiles. But also about the exiles brought on by other dimensions: social, economic, psychological, political and genocides and other fratricidal or international confrontations that cultural. La Jonquera, along with other frontier towns such as La started during the First World War and continue down to our days. Vajol, Agullana, Darnius, Portbou, Molló, Puigcerdà and others, The team of educators is made up of professionals from various was a place that had to be passed through during the flight into disciplines and specialists in cultural-heritage education and exile of hundreds of thousands of citizens who had fought for services. democracy and the 1931 Republic. The Educational Service of the MUME offers you: The MUME sets out to be a Advice and guidance on preparing the activities that the space in which to think back Museum offers. to and undertake a historical On-line support through the Museum website, with files of the reflection in which the detailed proposals and materials for working on before and example and memory of so after the visit. many personal, collective Visits can be arranged in Catalan, Spanish, English, French and political experiences and German. serve as a testimony to and body of learning for future generations. A-GUIDED VISIT B-VISIT AND WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES Suitable for groups of students or adults Aimed at students. Three proposals are offered, depending on age The guided visit to the Museum starts out by referring “Art and exile” “News from exile” “Exile and the mass media” to the universality of the phenomenon of exile, and then VISIT AND WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES FOR UPPER-PRIMARY VISIT AND WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES FOR UPPER- VISIT AND WORKSHOP ACTIVITIES FOR moves straight on to recount the 1939 exile. Attention PRIMARY I LOWER-SCHOOL SECONDARY PUPILS 14-18 YEAR-OLD SECONDARY STUDENTS is directed at its causes, on the one hand, and, on the Many artists stood for values of freedom and democracy, and Organised as group-classroom work, it consists of a Organised as group-classroom work, it consists of a other, a look is taken at the complexity of the labyrinth figured prominently in a struggle in which many did not visit to the MUME and a workshop in the classroom visit to the MUME and a workshop in the classroom into which thousands of refugees passed once they participate with arms but with their art. Painting, music, poetry at the Museum itself. at the Museum itself. had crossed the border. The voices of the witnesses, or theatre became forms of expression during the war, and The students will work over the course of a morning This module sets out to have the girls and boys work with their personal journeys and experiences, tools of resistance and protest in exile. alongside the Museum’s permanent exhibition, turn the in a participatory and fun way as reporters and over the course of a morning in a participatory and visit into an experience of great emotional impact, This activity aims to bring us closer to the experience of exile experts in investigative journalism, probing into the fun way on the relationship between a historical making us aware of the importance of the events and through art, from the perspective of children who experienced world of the collective and individual memory by phenomenon such as exile, universal in time and making us feel solidarity with similar contemporary it and reflected it in drawings, and to understand it as a means of techniques inherent to oral history, on space, with the communications media, the written situations. current phenomenon that affects thousands of people. In the gleaning information from other documentary press, radio, television and cinema, for the purpose museum we will talk about war and art as a way of explaining sources and on treatment and communication using of establishing an interplay of comparisons between In short, the visit is interactive, open and put together to reality. television resources. the 1939 view of exiles and that which is currently suit the particular group. predominant in the media concerning present-day Finally, we will create a small group work, the Tree of Desires, exiles. which will enable us to imagine a better world and provide us with a moment to share the experiences, emotions and thoughts that emerge during the activity. · Duration: 1.30 hours · Duration: 3 hours / Price per pupil: 8 € · Duration: 3 hours / Price per pupil: 8 € · Duration: 3 hours / Price per pupil: 8 € · Price per person: 5 € / Groups of up to 20 persons: 100 € · Groups of up to 20 pupils: 160 € / group · Groups of up to 20 pupils: 160 € / group · Groups of up to 20 pupils: 160 € / group Children’s holiday-stay houses. Consult the MUME. C - ROUTES OF EXILE and other municipalities on the Mediterranean coastline, as well as at cultural circles. Injustice prevailed over progressive ideas and creative “Paths of exile and border” other inland locations. Amidst such a disaster, the action of some freedom throughout the whole of Spain. A prime example is the case AIMED AT GROUPS OF UPPER-PRIMARY, ALL SECONDARY-LEVEL political organisations, French citizens and international aid of the poet Antonio Machado. This route underlines the relationship STUDENTS I GROUPS OF ADULTS organisations, which specifically took the shape of initiatives such as the between the exile and the cultural world. The itinerary starts off with a Elne Maternity Home, deserve to be remembered as a response by visit to the MUME and continues on towards Collioure, where the poet La Jonquera and other places located near the border were a setting humanity and a song of hope. The activity starts with a visit to the Antonio Machado arrived with his family and, after a few days, died of great importance in the final stage of the Republican institutions in MUME and then sets out on the route of exile in the direction of Argelès from illness and exhaustion. Texts by Antonio Machado and other Catalonia and in the exodus of hundreds of thousands of men, or Saint-Cyprien and the Elne Maternity Home. exiled writers will be read and discussed along the route. women and children. After an introductory part with the visit to the · Duration: 1 day (6 hours) / Price per adult / student: 12 € · Duration: 1 day (6 hours) / Price per adult / student: 12 € MUME’s permanent exhibition, some of the places that can be visited · Gorups of up to 20 students / adults: 240 € / group · Gorups of up to 20 students / adults: 240 € / group are Agullana, La Vajol, Coll de Lli, Coll de Manrella and Morellàs-les Illes, based on three thematic options: “Paths and memories of exile” “Portbou and Walter Benjamin. The retirada A. “The treasure of the Republic”. Includes the visit to the AIMED AND MIDDLE AND UPPER-SCHOOL SECONDARY (retreat) and the Second World War” MUME and the trip to the surroundings of the Mina d’en Negrín STUDENTS I GROUPS OF ADULTS or Mina Canta, in La Vajol, where the Bank of Spain holdings SUITABLE FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS (MIDDLE AND UPPER LEVELS) I GROUPS OF ADULTS. and works of art were deposited during the Civil War. The day ends with a walk to the border crossing of Coll de Lli, used by The route lasts two days and is a combination of the previous the Republican authorities. routes “Path of exile and border” (option A, B or C) and “Memories Walter Benjamin, the German philosopher of Jewish origin, reached of exile”. Portbou in late September 1940 in his flight from the German B. “A culture in exile”. The visit to the MUME is complemented · Duration: 2 days / Price per adult / student: 20 € occupation of France. On learning that the Spanish authorities intended by the visit to the Catalan Cultural Exile Interpretation Centre, in · Gorups of up to 20 students / adults: 400 € / group to deport him back to Vichy France and effectively prevent him from Agullana, and to various places in this village that were home to going to the United States, he took his own life in the hotel where he different Republican institutions and administrations.