For the exhibition “Women at the time of the Great War”, the Resistance Museum calls for donations and loans
to enrich and complete this temporary exhibition. It will highlight the role of women during this period: in transport, works, social movements, armament or even the agricultural world.
Fashion magazine, photos, letters, postcards…
“We are mainly looking for documents on women during the First World War, preferably women at work. There were trades that arose like this: the munitionnette, it was those who manufactured ammunition, those who worked in fields. So all these everyday objects: it can be photos, documents, clothes. There are also fashion magazines that interest us because we don’t have any. In Paris, there were women who started knitting layettes for the children of fighters. It can also be correspondence. We have a lot of things, but you never know, there are nuggets, such touching things that have the merit of be shown at that time” explains the museum’s communication officer, Agnès Peyronnet.
Gratis donations and loans
This is not the first time that the Resistance Museum has appealed for donations and loans. It was already a real success for the exhibition on Algeria
which ended in December 2022.
“There are pieces whose existence we could not even suspect and which appear like that. And then also families who lent and who say to themselves that the piece would be better preserved and exhibited at the Museum of Resistance. And then there is an inventory number. It’s a little more classy than when it’s on a shelf or stored in a box” explains Agnès Peyronnet.
The exhibition will open from October 12, 2023 to April 9, 2024. The deposit of donations and loans is until May 31, 2023.
