ALGAE’s heritage walk follows the Penn Enez dune at Koréjou to read the traces of Brittany’s seaweed industry. Harvesting tools, stone ovens and goémonier boats explain how marine plants moved from the shore into agricultural and industrial use. The coastal route places working knowledge beside the landscape that produced it, with suitable footwear needed for the dune terrain.
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Traditional Dance in Brittany: Cultural Evolution
La danse traditionnelle en Bretagne examines social dance as a record of a society in motion. Videos, photographs and explanatory texts trace ridées, pilé-menus and related forms from rural community practice through aristocratic and bourgeois influence. Material developed with the Groupement Culturel Breton des Pays de Vilaine shows how industrialisation and rural migration reshaped dance around the Pays de Redon.
Exhibition in Dinard: German Coastal Defenses
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.
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.
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.
Picodon Train Exhibition in Dieulefit
The Petit train du Picodon is the subject of a permanent exhibition in Dieulefit. Old photographs and postcards show the railway line as it was recorded in the past. Documents relating to the train’s existence add to these historical views, while objects associated with the line are also brought together in the display.
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.