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Welcome to Les Franciscaines
Throughout the year, Les Franciscaines supports teachers—from preschool through high school—in developing arts and cultural education (ACE) programs tailored to school curricula.
Exhibitions, performances, meetings, hands-on workshops, participatory projects, and educational resources enable students to develop their critical thinking, creativity, and understanding of major contemporary issues.
Each program can be adapted to suit the students’ ages and the teaching staff’s educational objectives.
The Benefits of Les Franciscaines
- Tours tailored to all grade levels;
- Artistic and digital hands-on workshops;
- Meetings with artists, authors, photographers, and researchers;
- Custom projects developed in collaboration with teachers;
- Dedicated educational resources;
- Personalized support for teaching staff;
- Access to a unique cultural venue combining a museum, media library, performance hall, and FabLab.
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To make sure you don’t miss any of our news or school-related offers, subscribe to the special Teachers’ newsletter to stay informed about all the activities that matter to you!
10 to 15 communications per year, including:
- Invitations to exclusive tours reserved for teachers at the opening of each exhibition
- Invitations to meet-and-greet sessions with artists and the Franciscaines team
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Find Les Franciscaines on the Culture Pass |
Claude Monet: A Legacy of Gardens
July 11 > November 1, 2026
Target Audiences: Elementary School (Grades 1–4) • Elementary School (Grades 5–8) • Middle School • High School
To explore with students
- Landscape and Light
- The Garden as a Work of Art
- Biodiversity
- International Artistic Exchanges
To mark the centennial of Claude Monet’s death, this special exhibition brings his work into dialogue with that of painters and photographers from around the world who share his fascination with light, gardens, and color.
Featuring exceptional loans from the collections of the Musée d’Orsay, the Musée Marmottan, the museums of Dreux and Saint-Étienne, and the Arab World Institute, among others.
This exhibition offers numerous connections to curricula in visual arts, art history, geography, French, and life sciences.
Planches Contact Festival
October 17, 2026 > January 3, 2027
Target Audience: Elementary School (Grades 3–6) • Middle School • High School
To explore with students
- Intergenerational Relationships
- Memory and transmission
- Landscapes and biodiversity
- Youth and contemporary issues
For more than fifteen years, the Planches Contact Festival has been inviting photographers from around the world to Deauville to create original works during residencies in Normandy.
To mark the bicentennial of photography, this new edition offers a unique opportunity to discover contemporary photography through sensitive, engaged, and accessible perspectives.
The tour itineraries can be supplemented with hands-on photography workshops, allowing students to experiment with imagery themselves—from taking photos to exploring historical processes such as cyanotype.
Festival Educational Resource Guide
Between September and November, have your students participate in a major photo contest, and find out the names of the three winners in December!
In the Garden with André Hambourg
May 30, 2026 > January 3, 2027
Target audiences: Elementary School (Grades 2–4) • Elementary School (Grades 5–8) • Middle School
From the geometric paths of Parisian parks to the flower-filled orchards of the Pays d’Auge, via the dazzling light of Provence, the garden serves as a subtle recurring theme in André Hambourg’s work. For the artist, it becomes a place of intimacy, contemplation, and creation.
Even in his early years in Paris, Hambourg drew inspiration from the capital’s green havens. The Luxembourg Gardens frequently appeared in his paintings. But it was above all the gardens of his homes that held a special place in his work.
In Provence, first in Mougins and then in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, he captured the play of light, the dance of the foliage in the mistral, and those late afternoons when shadows stretch across the ground. The colors there are vivid, almost dazzling, reflecting a bountiful nature that the painter captures with tenderness and sensuality.
Françoise Pétrovitch, Mirages
January 23, 2027 > May 9, 2027
Target audiences: Elementary School (Grades 1–4) • Elementary School (Grades 5–8) • Middle School • High School
To explore with students
- The Representation of Living Things
- Contemporary Landscapes
- The relationship between nature and industry
- Environmental issues
Discover the prolific world of Françoise Pétrovitch, a French visual artist recently elected to the Académie des Beaux-Arts.
The exhibition will feature, among other works, a series of landscapes created during a residency in Honfleur, where vegetation and architecture seem to merge into a world that reconciles natural and industrial objects.
Exhibition certified by the Millennium – European Year of the Normans (1027–2027).
What Unites Us, What Divides Us
The Bicentennial of Photography
February 27 > May 30, 2027
Target Audience: Middle School • High School
- To explore with students
- The History of Photojournalism
- Major transformations in the contemporary world
- The Documentary Perspective
- Social Issues
An exhibition organized in partnership with the Centre Pompidou to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the Magnum agency and the bicentennial of photography.
A journey through 80 years of perspectives on the world through photojournalism, exploring political struggles, social realities, and the transformations of our societies.
Duras / Film
Juliette de Charnacé
Theater - 10th Grade > 11th Grade
Tuesday, November 10, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. | Duration: 1 hour
A performance based on interviews with Marguerite Duras. In 1984, in a series of interviews, she reflected on her films from the late 1970s—the most radical, most experimental, most playful, and freest period of Duras the filmmaker. This was the period of *Son nom de Venise* in *Calcutta Désert*—a “remake” of *India Song* without the actors. A metaphorical reflection on 20th-century history; on questions of representation, interpretation, the power of the imagination, and the female body in cinema. Music. Learning to see through the eyes of the writer. It is also an invitation to independence of spirit, to freedom, to lightheartedness...
Actor Renan Prévot will be the voice of the text—and of all the voices.
In a nearly choreographed stage presentation, where the quality of light and the lyricism of colors create the space. With lighting inspired in particular by Nicolas Poussin and Le Lorrain.
Duras/cinema means stepping behind the scenes of cinema—into the passion of creation.
Guillaume & Harold
Caen National Choreographic Center in Normandy
Choreography: Gaëlle Bourges
Dance • Cycle 3
February 12, 2027
Elementary School: 9:30–10:30 a.m.
Middle School: 2:00–3:00 p.m.
To explore with students
- Normandy’s heritage
- Medieval History
- Historical Narrative
- Contemporary dance
With humor and a modern twist, Guillaume & Harold reimagine the Bayeux Tapestry and William the Conqueror’s conquest of England. By blending dance, storytelling, sound effects, medieval music, and contemporary sounds, the show offers an original and accessible take on a story that shaped the foundations of Europe.
Emma of Normandy
Olivier Lopez / La Cité Théâtre
Theater • High School
March 26, 227
- *Emma of Normandy: The First Crown* is a play inspired by historical figures who lived in the 11th century in the Kingdom of England.
- Emma of Normandy, the play’s eponymous figure, lived during a particularly violent era for women. Married twice, she reigned alongside her successive husbands and then her sons, who in turn became kings. She was a companion, a mother, a protector, but also a victim of these four men. She embodied power and weakness, domination and subjugation. Despite the incredible longevity of her reign and her political, diplomatic, and military achievements, the woman who brought the House of Normandy into the Kingdom of England was nevertheless erased from history, like so many other female figures.
Give your students a unique cultural experience! Enhance your exhibition visits with hands-on workshops tied to the school curriculum:
- Workshops specifically tied to current exhibitions to extend cultural exploration through artistic practice
- “À la carte” workshopsto explore themes from the literature, history, geography, civic education, and media literacy curricula, among others
- Workshops at the FabLab for a hands-on, participatory approach.
At the FabLab, students take an active role in their cultural exploration through workshops in:
- Digital creation
- Web radio
- 3D printing
- Robotics
- Design and fabrication
These projects foster creativity, collaboration,critical thinking, and digital skills. Specific projects can be developed with schools throughout the year.
Teacher Pass
€40 per year
The Teacher Pass is an annual membership to Les Franciscaines. It provides special access to borrowing materials, exhibitions, performances, events, and lectures. The pass can be purchased at the Les Franciscaines reception desk.
- Borrowing privileges for all media library collections (books, CDs, DVDs, magazines, etc.) and access to video-on-demand (VOD)—40 items per quarter
- Free admission, by reservation, to numerous lectures and events
- “Friendciscaines” meetups every Tuesday to discuss the collections and programming
- Reduced rates for temporary exhibitions and performances
- 5% discount at the bookstore and gift shop
School Group Visits
Tuesday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Prices
1-hour tour: €75 per class*
2-hour tour and workshop: €100 per class*
2-hour-and-15-minute tour, workshop, and self-guided activity: €125 for large groups**
Self-guided tour of a temporary exhibition: €50 per class*
Free for chaperones.
*Maximum of 30 students
**Max. 45–50 students
Reservations
The Education Department is available to help you plan your visit. Every visit—including self-guided tours—and every workshop must be reserved using our online form.
Access
Drop-off zone for buses in front of the school, then parking in the train station lot.
For security reasons, backpacks are not permitted on the Franciscaines campus. Students are advised to leave their personal belongings on the bus or in the lockers available at the school’s reception desk.
Facilities
Accessible to people with limited mobility—gift shop and bookstore—restrooms
Picnics are not permitted on the premises (including the terrace and forecourt) of Les Franciscaines. However, Saint-Augustin Square is located 250 meters from Les Franciscaines, and the beach is less than a 10-minute walk away.
Les Franciscaines does not have a picnic area.
Nearby
Make the most of your visit to Les Franciscaines to explore the heritage and history of Deauville and the Côte Fleurie, which are brimming with attractions for art and history enthusiasts.
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