Les défenses côtières allemandes de Dinard studies the bunkers and coastal defences built around Dinard during the Second World War. Organised with Histoire et Patrimoine du Pays de Dinard, the town and the Brittany region, the exhibition places wartime architecture inside a local landscape. Parc de Port Breton gives the subject a public setting where military history and seaside heritage can be read together.
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Le vol du coeur d’Anne de Bretagne in Landévennec: Family En
Le vol du coeur d’Anne de Bretagne invites families into a playful search through the Breizh Odyssee museographic space. The story of Duchess Anne’s heart reliquary gives the activity a strong historical anchor, while the investigation format helps younger visitors handle heritage as a puzzle. The investigation makes Breton ducal memory active and accessible, grounding the game in a named historical figure and object.
Rendez-vous – Emgavioù in Landévennec: Monthly Lectures
Rendez-vous – Emgavioù in Landévennec offers a cycle of talks rooted in local history, language and Breton cultural questions. The title itself brings French and Breton together, signalling a bilingual frame for public knowledge. The meetings give the abbey village a regular forum where scholarship, memory and regional identity can be discussed.
Guided Walk in Le Conquet: Seaweed History
Sur les traces des goémoniers is a guided walk in Le Conquet led by Yoann Créac’h. The route explores seaweed harvesting, one of Brittany’s distinctive maritime trades, through coastal landscape and local memory. Participants follow the traces of traditional harvesters and learn how their labour shaped shore practices, tools and seafaring culture.
Femmes et Phares Conference in Lanildut: Women’s Impact
Femmes et Phares studies women’s roles in lighthouse history from Lanildut, a commune strongly tied to the Iroise coast. The conference places maritime work, family life and coastal memory beside the technical history of lights. Its angle is specific: it looks at women often kept outside the official lighthouse narrative while keeping the subject anchored in Breton seafaring culture.
The Secret of the Last Templar in Lizio: A Quest
Le secret du dernier Templier et la quête d’Hercule uses Lizio’s streets as an interactive heritage trail. Players follow Professor Hercule Baudouin’s notebook, symbols and clues to investigate a legendary Templar presence through observation and deduction. Built heritage becomes an active field of observation, inviting families to read the village as a map of clues and stories.
Expo Apéro in Concarneau: Exclusive Evening Tour
Expo Apero turns a guided visit into a small-group cultural moment inside Concarneau’s Maison du Patrimoine. The format links the exhibition on the beffroi with conversation over a drink, giving local history a social pace after the galleries close. It keeps heritage approachable while still centring the guide’s reading of art, place and town memory.
Guided Tour in Doëlan: Fisherman’s Port Insight
Two lighthouses watch over Doëlan, a fishing port on one of southern Brittany’s tidal inlets. This guided visit introduces the small harbour and its relationship with the tides, which shape the rhythm of port life. Reservations are required for the tour, whose subject is the working coastal setting of Doëlan and its ria.
Embroidery Exhibition in Brittany: Traditional Art
This embroidery exhibition presents traditional Breton needlework as a living body of skill and design. Visitors encounter stitches, motifs and textile techniques associated with the region’s many distinctive headdresses. Work made by members of the Maison du Filet Brodé shows how inherited patterns can be studied, reworked and carried into contemporary craft practice.
Photography Exhibition in Combrit: Bigouden Heritage
Expo photos – 70 ans de culture bigoudène à Combrit documents the long life of the Bagad and Cercle de Combrit. More than 200 photographs show portraits, groups, costumes and associative moments tied to Bigouden culture. The display across chapels and public space turns local archives into a shared walk through music, dance and community memory.