Workshops and exhibitions dedicated to family and school education are made available throughout the year at the resource centre and at the exhibition centre both located in Rouen. Back in , the Educational Museum founded by Jules Ferry in Paris was the place where political will could express itself in favour of popular education. In the spirit of its founder, the Educational museum "is designed to provide our primary instruction system with the same service as the National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts does with vocational education.
The history and museum dimension of the collections which had been then preserved on rue d'Ulm, grew more and more important over decades. Significant series of engravings, photographs, pupils' works, toys and educational toys were added to initial documents i. The "historical collections" transferred to Rouen in constitute the core of the current National Museum of Education.
That meant collecting extensive heritage educational materials on a national scale for preservation, exhibition and research purposes. Significant collections of educational material purposely gathered by the Rouen CRDP were to be added to the historical Collections inherited from the Educational museum. In , the collections and the resource centre of the museum were moved to a new and functional building, on 6, rue de Bihorel, in Rouen. The mission of the new national Museum of Education founded on January the 1st , as assigned by the Minister, was to "gather tangible evidence of education history in a consistent way" and to be addressed "from a twofold perspective : opening up to the general public and offering a practical and functional exploitation for scientific purposes.
In this respect, the national Museum of Education has a resource centre consisting of more than The exhibition centre of the national Museum of Education has been located in an outstanding setting at the heart of the historic district of Rouen since The House Of Aymon's Four Sons.
Built around , the house is one the most outstanding corbelled house in Rouen and was named after an epic from the late Middle-Ages. The house is said to have been built by a family of drapers, the Capelles. Until the 19th century, the building's owners ranged from public figures to textile tradesmen-drapers, dyers, canvas makers, trimming manufacturers, tailors From the 18th century, there has been demographic and environmental change in the Robec district, which developed thanks to woollen textile industry.
