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Musée du 5 juin 1944

Name: Visite du Musée du 5 juin 1944 « Message Verlaine »
Start: 2026-09-19T14:00:00+02:00
End: 2026-09-19T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée du 5 juin 1944

Tourcoing · Nord · Hauts-de-France

European Heritage Days 2026

1 animation free on 19-20 September

Visite du Musée du 5 juin 1944 « Message Verlaine »

Sat 14:00–18:00Sun 09:00–18:00

Free

Source: European Heritage Days programme / OpenAgenda · synced 28 August at 10:17

The Museum of June 5, 1944 "Message Verlaine" is a history museum located in Tourcoing, in the North of France. It occupies a completely restored German staff bunker, which played a historical role during the Normandy landings. Several rooms are reconstructed from the period, notably the technical facilities, kitchen, sanitary facilities, the general's bedroom, the telephone exchange and the listening station, enhanced with period mannequins wearing uniforms with contemporary equipment and weapons. The museum also presents exceptional collections relating to the "war of the airwaves": German, Vichy French and English radio direction-finding apparatus, as well as period teletypes, whose grouping together constitutes a museum rarity. Civilian life under occupation is evoked through the reconstruction of a home interior, and regional documents complete the exhibition. Managed by an association for over twenty years, the museum fulfills a function of transmitting memory around the landings and the Second World War.

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