
This paper aims to discuss the educational activities developed at the Centro de Memória e Documentação da Universidade do Extremo Sul Catarinense – CEDOC. The institution promotes various activities in partnership with schools of basic education with the intention of allowing reflections on the city of Criciúma and region through its collections. Our focus in this article is the workshops organized and held during the year of 2016 and which dealt with various aspects of the coal activities carried out in the city. The memories and materiality regarding these activities are quite positive, sometimes silencing narratives and spaces that present dissonant, marginal and/or sensitive narratives, so that the workshops held by CEDOC proposed to rethink the official perceptions and speeches about the city and the coal region. The workshops held in 2016 were reconfigured and gave rise to several other projects that are still ongoing at the institution