When the confinement was announced last year, she saw her season collapse: “As in the whole cultural sector, the tour guides found themselves unable to work. My 200 scheduled visits were canceled overnight. “
It was then that with her companion, a history professor and a computer scientist friend, she reflected on how to continue to practice her profession. Their reflections lead, from April 2020, to the creation of the “D’Arts et d’Histoires” site, an online visits platform. In one year, the platform has won over 30,000 subscribers.
An investigation to experience with the family at the castle of the Counts of Perche in Nogent-le-Rotrou
The principle is simple. After logging in to the website, the visitor selects the visit (s) of their choice from a large catalog of themes as diverse as “Paris 2000 years of history”, “Women artists”, “Les jardins d’Orient” , “Rudolf Nureyev” or “Tutankhamun”.
The founders still can’t believe it
He then connects to the link of the virtual tour at the agreed time and date, and attends the one-and-a-half-hour conference, moderated and illustrated by one of the fourteen experienced speaker guides who now make up the team. A time for discussion is planned at the end of the session, as in traditional visits.
At the request of families, the lecturers have also developed a cycle of visits specially designed for children, with subjects adapted to school programs.
Everyone is mobilizing for the restoration of the church
And the least we can say is that the public is there since for a year, the site has more than 30,000 subscribers from five continents ?! The founders still can’t believe it. “Initially, it was about creating a solidarity platform that would allow us to continue working through thick and thin, even if it was different. But we realize that we have also created a new way of approaching cultural mediation by going beyond borders, and that the public is asking for more ?! ”, Enthuses Tatiana Bailleul.
Meeting on www.dartsetdhistoires.fr or on [email protected]. Individual reservations from € 7.50 per visit. Possibility of reservations and tailor-made themes for groups and works councils.
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