Encountering art, artworks and artists is a powerful tool for cohesion and emancipation. The Rmn Grand Palais aims to make art accessible to all through the uncomplicated and fun approach taken by its Histoires d'Art collection. This unique and original collection aims to speak to everyone by taking account of their lifestyle, social context, age and preferences, with art history classes in an auditorium or at home, educational packages, a programme of activities in towns, to name just a few of the activities designed and run by teams experienced in art history and education.

In 2021, the Histoires d Art programmes welcomed a total of 20,000 people. The educational packages were sent throughout France and used by 80,000 children as part of school or extracurricular activities.

HISTOIRES D ART: À LA CARTE CLASSES, AT THE MUSÉE DE L'ARMÉE AND ONLINE To learn more about the history of art, 18,000 listeners of all ages took part in the Histoires d Art classes in 2021. These took place at the Musée de l Armée, at the Théâtre du Rond-Point, at the Maison de la Radio et de la Musique and online, with a system of video conferences set up in 2020. The Histoires d Art classes were also given in primary, secondary and sixth form schools, at associations and charities and in certain Micro-Folies and towns in the Paris area. The year brought with it a permanent programme of online classes, thereby broadening their scope: now, a significant proportion of listeners are from outside the Île-de-France area. In 2021, the themes for the classes highlighted women artists as part of the two ( Créer au féminin / Creating as women and Femmes artistes / Women artists ) series, as well as the art of Latin America with a view to changing the traditional perspective on the history of art.

HISTOIRES D ART À L ÉCOLE: EDUCATIONAL PACKAGES TO INTRODUCE CHILDREN TO ART IN A COLLECTIVE SETTING Built around a host of different activities, the educational packages develop innovative forms of teaching to familiarise children with art. With the act of looking and searching for clues the central part of the activities, the packages familiarise younger audience with looking at images, using high-quality reproductions from the photo agency of the Rmn Grand Palais. Aimed at school and after-school groups, the packages are one of the tools listed by the Ministries of Culture and National Education and Youth in the joint action plan Arts and culture at school from ages 3 to 18 . Four packages are currently available: the portrait in art , and the landscape in art for children aged 7 and up, objects in art and animals in art for children aged 3 and up. 2,000 packages were distributed in schools and leisure facilities throughout France. 80,000 children use these packages every year. In 2021, distribution of the educational packages benefited from the support of the Sextant Foundation, the foundation set up by the company Amiral Gestion, and the Fonds de dotation Milk for Good.

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