Clap 005 – A feast for the eyes

Telling the story of wartime captivity by comparing different camps

November 2025: while we wait for the austere issues to settle (building permits, financing dossiers, various authorizations, etc.), we invite you to take a little trip into the future museum!
Computer-generated images, yes, but images that project us into the atmosphere of the MUCAP (Museum of the Captivity of War), a resolutely transnational experience:

  • a trilingual museum – German, English, French – both on the labels and on the walls;
  • a trilingual story, told through an on-board headset adapted to each type of audience – child, adult, hearing-impaired – which will follow the visitor throughout the permanent tour and temporary exhibitions;
  • trilingual commentaries to accompany audio-visual screenings from room to room.

While we’re waiting to hear and read in three languages, we’d like to invite you to take a look…

Creating a new visual identity: MUCAP in all its letters

Proposed typefaces for signage, labels and titles on museum walls

A trail that tells the story of the CCPWE19 camp at Foucarville and three other camps in Europe: contextualizing wartime captivity on a European scale

Proposal for the first room, around a central model

A scenography combining an immersive experience, audiovisuals, digital displays, in 3 languages, while respecting “the economy of minimalism”

Proposal for the sequence on the daily life of prisoners of war

An evolving model based on numerous archives

Development of CCPWE19 in Foucarville (1944-1946)

Telling the story of wartime captivity by comparing different camps

Proposal for the captivity room at prisoner height

A journey through the collections

Various devices adapted to the corpus of the four camps

Many media created from archives

Photographs, increments, videos: the right media to make the most of archives and tell the story

A space at the service of the itinerary: the example of patios

Proposed use of a patio to show tent occupancy density in CCPWE19 (Foucarville)

The belvedere: offering a bird’s eye view of the camp between land and sea

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