School Groups
Bonnet Silk Museum
EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM 2021 - 2022
THE TRAVELING MUSEUM
All levels
The museum comes to meet you: proposal of activities around a theme to be defined beforehand between the teacher and the mediator, realization of workshops in class, research work on documentation, iconography... Program to be defined jointly with the teachers.
Contact us.
THEMATIC TOURS
(1H - 1h30)
SENSORY DISCOVERY OF SILK
cycle 1 and 2
Perfume of cocoons, noise of looms, softness of fabrics... so many sensations that enamel the discovery of the old weaving workshops and contribute to immersing children in the atmosphere of silk factories.
SILK CRAFT
Cycle 3 and middle school
Young boarding girls, silk workers: winders, millers etc. supervised by nuns, external staff, weavers, mechanics, workshop leaders...
In the 19th century, each worker, each employee, has his function and occupies the space of the factory in his own way. Discover through these crossed paths the daily life at the Soieries Bonnet and its paternalistic organization.
TWO CENTURIES OF TEXTILE CREATION
Cycle 3, college and high school
Panorama of textile creation at the Soieries Bonnet, from the plain black fabrics that inspired Zola's novel "Au bonheur des Dames", to the patterned fabrics that seduced the great fashion designers such as Worth, Chanel, Poiret, Dior, as well as accessories of fashion: ties, scarves distributed under the brands Jacomo, Paco Rabanne, Madeleine Vionnet... Implicitly, discovery of the history of department stores and immersion in the world of fashion fabrics.
AN INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE IN THE COUNTRYSIDE
1/2 day specific visit
Cycle 3, college and high school
Discover how industrialization has shaped new landscapes even in the countryside. Reading the landscape of yesterday and today and looking for traces of the factory on the territory of the municipality of Jujurieux (outdoor mediation in the heart of the factory buildings). The site is recognized as an Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes remarkable industrial complex.
THE MUSEUM FACTORY
Cycle 3, college and high school
Discovery behind the scenes of the museum and its heritage: understanding the organization and life of a museum, inventory, conservation and study of collections, design of exhibitions, mediation with the public. The “Musée de France” collections are displayed in buildings protected as Historic Monuments.
THE TEXTILE EPIC
Cycle 3, college and high school
The guided tour explores the history of the Bonnet house in its entirety, from its creation in Lyon in 1810 then in Jujurieux from 1835, until its closure in 2001: journey in the heart of the old weaving workshops to understand the stages of creation silk fabrics then visit the permanent exhibitions to soak up the history of generations of men, women and young girls who worked within its walls.
SUPERVISED WORKSHOPS
BY A MEDIATOR (1 H)
THE SILK WORM IN ALL ITS STATES
Cycles 1, 2 and 3
Discover the breeding of silkworms or how a tiny caterpillar, which has grown, spins its cocoon to metamorphose into a butterfly. The students participate in feeding and caring for the silkworms. College and high school: dialogues around sericulture, the history of silk, the cycle of the silkworm, the properties and uses of silk from yesterday to today. (June to October).
REELING OF COCONS
Cycles 2 and 3, college and high school
With miniature silk spinning equipment, students take on the role of young reelers to unwind the yarn from a cocoon of silk. They leave with their little skein of raw silk.
WEAVING
All levels
The students experiment with the diversity of thread crossings and create their own weaving using a loom. Possibility of a weaving workshop for reading cloths to approach the notion of recycling fabrics. The students leave with their creation.
SILK PAINTING
All levels
On a square of silk stretched over a wooden frame, the students reproduce the gestures of decorators on fabrics with a brush, giving free rein to their imagination to create their own patterns. The students leave with their creation.
LET'S BROWSE FASHION
All levels
Ephemeral fashion workshop on a couture mannequin with silk coupons from a fashion sketch made according to the students' imagination.
NEW
SILK GAMES
Cycles 2 and 3
Deepen knowledge of the museum's collections through games (puzzles and giant cubes, game of seven families, memory...). All the games on offer are creations made by the museum team from facsimiles of collections of textile sketches, photos of the factory at various times, iconographic documents and archives of the Bonnet house.
In partial autonomy
TOUR WITH ACCOMPANIMENT BOOKLET
A DAY AT BOARDING SCHOOL
Cycles 2 and 3
Discovery of the daily life of a young resident worker around 1900: recruitment, working hours, menus in the refectory, supervision of the dormitories, work in the workshops...
LIVING AND PRODUCING AT THE BONNET SILKS AROUND 1900
Middle School
Students discover the daily life and working conditions of residents and external staff in the Jujurieux factory at the end of the 19th century by visiting the permanent exhibition "Trames de vie" with the help of an educational booklet. .
FREE AND FREE VISIT OF THE PERMANENT EXHIBITIONS WITH A VISITING ASSISTANT.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION
Contact us on 04 74 36 97 60
Email: accueil.soieriesbonnet@cerdonvalleedelain.fr
AT THE MUSEUM
Bus parking, bookshop, picnic in the nearby park, provision of a communal hall in case of rain (subject to availability and by reservation).
ACCESSIBILITY AND COMFORT OF VISIT
exhibitions and workshops are accessible to people with reduced mobility with an accompanying person. A wheelchair can be lent on request at reception. Accessible toilets.
OPENING
Open Tuesday to Sunday, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 11 p.m. (subject to change, inquire).
Possible educational projects throughout the year.
PRICES
• Pedagogical booklet in semi-autonomy: 2€
• 1 educational activity: €4
• 1 thematic visit: €3