A mediation service was set up at Bibracte as soon as excavation activities resumed in the 1980s, even before the museum was created (1995). In parallel with the site guidance, activities dedicated to schoolchildren were created by the researchers themselves. These first archaeological steps were the basis of the public service, which relies on more than 30 years of experience and the skills of some fifteen guides-mediators. The aim of the service is to give visitors a chance to see and understand the archaeology of the Gallic and Gallo-Roman period, based as much on the remains visible on the site as on the observation and practice of archaeological excavation and on the examination of the collections on display in the museum. Drawing on the originality of the Bibracte public establishment and its policy at the crossroads of science, archaeology, nature and culture, it also endeavours to highlight the study of palaeo-environments and naturalist approaches in the service of a global understanding of heritage, while cultivating close links with a diversified cultural programme, which enriches its proposals with constantly renewed artistic encounters and practices.

The educational workshops, which form the core of its proposals aimed at young people, cover all the disciplines and workflows involved in archaeology. Pupils benefit from an education of the eye at different scales, enabling them to learn to identify human activities within a landscape, but also in the topography of a site or a road, or even on an excavation site: it is then the colours of the sediments and the stratigraphic relationships between the elements of the architecture that show the stages of occupation of the town.