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GRANDMA, WHAT WAS IT LIKE DURING THE WAR?, AN EXHIBITION PRESENTED AT THE JUNO BEACH CENTRE IN NORMANDY, FRANCE, ABOUT THE EVERYDAY LIFE OF NORMAN AND CANADIAN CIVILIANS DURING THE WAR, FROM THE GERMAN OCCUPATION IN NORMANDY UNTIL THE LIBERATION.

Merlicht met the challenge of interpreting for youngsters a tragic historical period without making it a traumatic experience, but also without diluting the facts. The exhibition is a great success: following its inauguration, school groups bookings increased by 90% and organized groups bookings, by 50%.

Five architectural volumes illustrating different places–classroom, kitchen, storage room under stairs, ruins and military cemetery–form the exhibition’s chronological layout. Each volume includes the voices of children and soldiers speaking through cartoon bubbles and audio narrations, various simple interactive units and artifacts showcases incorporated into the set elements.

The exhibition was entirely assembled in a workshop in Quebec, and then shipped by sea container to France, where Merlicht’s team mounted it in a week.

Turnkey Project :

• Project management and coordination
• Artistic direction
• Documentary, iconography and film research
• Licensing of copyrights
• artifacts selection
• Concept
• Script
• 2D and 3D design
• Exhibition texts
• Children narrators coaching, soundtrack production
• Export management
• Installation supervision.