We offer a tour-workshop so middle-cycle primary school students can get to know the Sants-Montjuïc District Municipal Archives. This activity will also give the boys and girls a chance to learn about the work archivists do and appreciate the value of our records as patrimonial testimony of the past and a management tool for municipal Administration.

The activity is split into two parts. The first involves a tour of the archive centre to show students the route a document follows from the moment it arrives here to when it can be consulted by archive users. The second part is a research workshop using photographs, where they research and reflect on the value of the photographs and the information they provide us with.

Its learning goals are to:

• Learn about the functions of the Sants-Montjuïc District Municipal Archives.
• Find out the different kinds of documents kept at these archives.
• Relate the spaces to their function: classification, description, digitisation, restoration, conservation and so on.
• Analyse the various writing supports used throughout history.
• Appreciate the importance of conserving documents, a source of historical knowledge.
• Get to know the professions linked to the conservation, treatment and dissemination of these documents.
• See the changes that have occurred over the years in the transport, the clothes, the trades and the shops.

Educational levels: middle cycle of primary education.

Approximate duration of the activity: 2 hours

Price: free.

Bookings: Please call +34 932 914 240 or email amds@bcn.cat.