Last updated on 12 May 2026
This is one of the great advantages of multimedia and CTBTs, the possibility of extending a major exhibition with an event site that will last and become an online resource open to all. From this point of view, The BnF website dedicated to the exhibition La Presse à la Une is exemplary.
The exhibition is over. Remains good memories for those who had the chance to visit it. For all the others, there is the exhibition site, which is a real mine for classroom work on the press. La Presse à la Une will provide you if you are teaching a rich and quality subject for Prepare a sequence or work on the Press.
On the site offered by the BnF, you will be able to access the exhibition and some of the documents that were presented at Quai François Mitterand. Each is presented in context and explained. You can view them with a single full-screen click. You will thus be able to travel virtually to the four rooms that were dedicated to this history of the press: from the Gazette to the Internet, the Info Factory, staging, and digital. Stylish and stripped-down graphics highlighting documents, simple navigation and no frills, a real success.
Beyond the exhibition, the BnF offers you a complete dossier on the history of the press enriched by a reference bibliography and a multitude of links that allow you to have a very fine vision of the history and future of the press.
The BnF also offers in this real online mine a pedagogical file that alone is worth a visit. You will find pedagogical tracks to build sequences developed by CLEMI specialists. You can also download fact sheets for the class.
Finally in this section, the BnF proposes an exhibition route for children. This is a simplified pathway for primary school students. A multimedia course particularly well done.
In the classroom.
La Presse à la Une will allow you to prepare a course or a sequence on the history and evolution of the press with quality resources. The pedagogical file on the site will help you. The two virtual tours proposed, including the one for a children’s audience, will prepare or complete a given work for pupils or students.
Link: La Presse à la Une.
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