Guided tour of the History Workshop

Name: Visita guiada del Taller de Historia
Start: 2023-09-16T13:00:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-16T19:00:00+02:00
Location: La Contemporaine

a museum to understand how history is written

Sábado 16 septiembre 2023, 13:00Passed

coll. La contemporaine

a museum to understand how history is written
How and from which pieces is the history of present time written? How did we get interested in hitherto neglected sources - press, graphic works, leaflets, photographs, posters, audiovisual, web? Why do we strive to preserve the traces of our personal or family history? Why do activists gather archives of their engagement? What interaction is there between the views of the historian, the activist and the citizen? Why and how to transmit these materials to the next generations? Through a stroll in the collections of La contemporaine- paintings of the Great War, leaflets, sketches of the Liberation trials or diaries of activists of the Algerian War, archives collected hot during the Russian Revolution or samizdats of the 1970s-1980, photojournalist works, filmed interviews, activist or associative archives...- l'Atelier de l'histoire questions our relationship to contemporary history and its sources.

About the location

La Contemporaine

184 cours Nicole-Dreyfus 92000 Nanterre

Hauts-de-Seine
Île-de-France

At once a library, museum and archives centre, La contemporaine is the only institution in France to collect, preserve and communicate collections on the entire European history of the 20th and 21st centuries. Created in 1918, its purpose since its inception is to gather all the materials and documentary traces of events that can be used to interpret and write the history of our time. Today, it offers more than 4.5 million documents (books, press, leaflets, archives, films, works of art, photographs, posters, press drawings and objects) for consultation. An inter-university institution attached to the Université Paris Nanterre, a member of the ComUE Paris Lumières and the Campus Condorcet, La contemporaine opened a new facility at the entrance to the Nanterre university campus in October 2021\. Open to both the university and the city, it facilitates the meeting of all audiences, students, researchers, high school students, history enthusiasts... and an exceptional heritage collection.