Visit to the Villa Les Palmiers

• Visit to the Villa Les Palmiers
  Many families have succeeded in the Villa Les Palmiers before it became the place of consultation of the archives of the city of Nice. This visit-jeu proposes to conduct the investigation into the various traces left by the successive owners as well as the missions of the Archives department.
• Game of the giant oie-archiviste
  Turn into a nature-size pawn to follow the different stages of an archive: from its collection to its communication in the reading room.

To book: archives@ville-nice.fr

Stage around the Jean Toche exhibition. Fragments of memory (1930-1944)

Discover the missions of the archives and its temporary exhibition through manual games and activities (realization of its ink self-portrait, writing workshop, landscape realization...) (from 7 years old).

Monday 17, Tuesday 18, Thursday 20, and Friday 21 February from 2pm to 4:30pm - Possibility to book for one or more sessions.

After a career as a teacher and graphic designer, Jean Toche delivered, during the last years of his life, an unpublished testimony of his youth years combining texts and drawings and paying tribute to the role played by his brother, Emile, and his parents in the rescue ofTwo Jewish families in 1942-1944.

With the contest of theToche family,This exhibition of the Nice Côte d’Azur Archives department proposes to address the great History through the path of a niçois teenager whose illustrated story is punctuated with original archival documents.