“Heritage is our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations.”

(Excerpt from the Convention concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, adopted by UNESCO in 1972.)

The abbey church of Saint-Savin, on the World Heritage List of the UNESCO, is renowned for its exceptional universal value. The education department – in partnership with the Board of Education of the regional education authority of Poitiers – offers and develops educational activities related to the school curriculum: the aim is to incite younger audiences to seize their heritage.

Missions:

• Advising and helping teachers who want to organize a personalized tour or develop an educational project;

• Creating several tours/workshops offers with an educational purpose, suitable for young audiences and in accordance with the teachers’ programs;

• Developing and giving access to educational resources;

• Developing cultural activities related to the schools’ projects and meeting the teachers’ needs;

• Welcoming young audiences outside school (activities centers, holiday centers, youth and culture associations…).

Suitable spaces: parking area for buses, dining room, projection room, educational workshop, former monks’ refectory…

Personalized tools: scenographic tours with multimedia devices, models, timeline, educational documents and DVD…

Specific offers: tours with heritage mediators, artistic initiation workshops, off-site conferences…