Musées Résistance & Mémoire en France

Mémorial de Caen

The Caen Memorial is a history museum dedicated to major events of the twentieth century. Located in Caen in Normandy, it offers permanent exhibitions centered on World War II, the…

Esp. Général Eisenhower

Musée du Débarquement

The D-Day Museum in Arromanches-les-Bains, in Calvados, is dedicated to the operations of June 6, 1944 and the Battle of Normandy. The first museum created on this subject in the a…

Place du 6 Juin, 14 Pl. du Six Juin 1944

Citadelle de Besançon

The Citadelle de Besançon is a Vauban fortress listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, located in Besançon in the Doubs. It houses three museums labeled "Musées de France": the Mus…

99 Rue des Fusillés de la Résistance

Base sous-marine

The Bordeaux Submarine Base is a historic site located in the port city of Bordeaux, in the Gironde region. This site listed in the urban heritage of the Bordeaux metropolis bears…

284 Bd Alfred Daney

D-Day Experience

D-Day Experience is a military history museum located in Carentan-les-Marais, in Manche, dedicated to the Normandy Landings and the Battle of Carentan. The site offers an immersive…

2 Vge de l'Amont

Centre Juno Beach

Juno Beach Centre is the Canadian museum dedicated to World War II, located in Courseulles-sur-Mer in Normandy. Founded in 2003 by veterans and volunteers, it preserves the memory…

Voie des Français Libres

Mémorial de Verdun

The Verdun Memorial is a museum and historical site dedicated to the Battle of Verdun (February-December 1916), which took place on the northern heights of the city. Located in Fle…

1 Av. Corps Européen

Citadelle Souterraine de Verdun

The Underground Citadel of Verdun is a history museum dedicated to the First World War, located in Verdun in the Meuse department. The site occupies the underground galleries of th…

Ancienne Avenue du 5ème RAP, Av. du Soldat Inconnu

Musée Mémorial d'Omaha Beach - Saint Laurent sur Mer

The Omaha Beach Memorial Museum is located on the very site of the American naval landing of June 6, 1944, in Saint-Laurent-sur-Mer in Normandy, in the immediate vicinity of Omaha…

Av. de la Libération

Musée de la Révolution française

Vizille Estate, located in Isère, houses the departmental museum of the French Revolution. It is set within a historic estate with a remarkable garden. The museum's collections foc…

Pl. du Château

Musée de la Bataille de Normandie

The Normandy Battle Memorial Museum is located in Bayeux, in Calvados, at the gateway to the Landing beaches. It presents the military operations that took place in Normandy during…

Bd Fabian Ware

Musée de la bataille des haies

The Normandy Victory Museum is a museum dedicated to World War II and the Battle of Normandy, located in Carentan-les-Marais in the Manche department. Over 2,000 m², the museum off…

Parc d’Activités La Fourchette Catz Sortie

Musée Mémoires 39-45

The Mémoires 39-45 Museum is a war museum housed in a former German command blockhouse located in Plougonvelin, in Finistère, near Pointe Saint-Mathieu. The museum spans five floor…

Le Prédic - Route de la Pointe Saint Mathieu

Musée Somme 1916

The Somme 1916 Museum is a history museum dedicated to the First World War, located in Albert in the Somme. Situated in a Second World War air raid shelter, it offers a documented…

Rue Anicet Godin

Mémorial Alsace-Moselle

The Alsace-Moselle Memorial is a history and memory museum located in Schirmeck, in Alsace, in the Bruche valley. It is dedicated to the history of Alsace and Moselle from 1870 to…

All. du Souvenir Français

Musée du Blockhaus Hôpital

The Blockhaus Hospital Museum is located in the heart of Les Sables-d'Olonne, in Vendée. It is housed in a German blockhouse built in 1943, which has remained intact and been conve…

Rue de Verdun

Musée 39-45

The 39-45 Museum is a history museum dedicated to World War II, located in Ambleteuse in the Pas-de-Calais, between Calais and Boulogne-sur-Mer. Over 800 m², it offers an evocation…

2 Rue des Garennes

Musée de la Reddition du 7 mai 1945

The Museum of the Surrender of May 7, 1945 is located in Reims, in the Marne department. As an institution, it is registered in the French heritage registry according to the Herita…

12 Rue du Président Franklin Roosevelt

Musée mémorial international de la Bataille de l'Atlantique

The International Memorial Museum of the Battle of the Atlantic is located in a blockhouse on the Kerbonn cliff in Camaret-sur-Mer, overlooking the sea fifty meters above. Dedicate…

Fort de

Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l'Isère

The Museum of Resistance and Deportation of Isère is a local history museum located in Grenoble. It documents the themes of Resistance and Deportation in Isère during World War II.…

14 Rue Hébert

Musée départemental de la Résistance du Vercors

The departmental museum of the Resistance of Vercors is located in Vassieux-en-Vercors, a martyred village that became a Companion of the Liberation. It traces the history of the R…

Rue du Fournat

Mémorial de Falaise - Les Civils dans la Guerre

The Falaise Memorial – Civilians in War is a history museum located in Falaise, in Calvados, in Normandy. It is dedicated to the experience of civilian populations during armed con…

12 Pl. Guillaume le Conquérant

Forteresse de Mimoyecques

The Mimoyecques Fortress is a historical site of memory and interpretation located in Landrethun-le-Nord, in Pas-de-Calais. The site combines heritage interest linked to World War…

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Camp de concentration Natzweiler-Struthof

The Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp memorial, located in Natzwiller in Alsace, is a major site of national remembrance dedicated to the history of the camp opened in 1941 by…

20 Struthof

Musée Mémorial des combats de la Poche de Colmar

The Colmar Pocket Battles Memorial Museum is located in Turckheim, in the heart of the Upper Rhine. Created in 1994, it is dedicated to the history of the battles that led to the l…

25 Rue du Conseil

Historial franco-allemand du Hartmannswillerkopf

The Franco-German Museum of Hartmannswillerkopf is a history museum and memorial dedicated to the battles of the First World War. Located in Wattwiller in the Haut-Rhin, it stands…

Lieu-dit Vieil Armand

Centre Azincourt 1415

The Azincourt 1415 Centre is a history museum dedicated to the Battle of Azincourt, located in the Pas-de-Calais region in Hauts-de-France. The establishment offers visitors a mult…

24 Rue Charles VI

Musée Mémorial de la Ligne Maginot du Rhin

The Maginot Line Rhine Memorial Museum, located in Marckolsheim in Alsace, is installed in a standard casemate of the Maginot Line, a fortification built from 1930 onwards. The mus…

Rue du Rhin

Musée de la Libération au Fort du Roule

The Museum of Liberation is located at Fort du Roule, in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin, in Normandy. It falls into the category of local history and general history museums. The museum is…

Mnt des Résistants

Centre européen du résistant déporté (Natzweiler-Struthof)

The European Centre for Deported Resistants is located on the historic site of the Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, opened by the Nazis on May 1, 1941 in Alsace. As a memori…

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Musée de la Bataille de Fromelles

The Museum of the Battle of Fromelles, located in the North in Hauts-de-France, is dedicated to the battle fought on July 19 and 20, 1916 between British and Australian divisions a…

Rue de la Basse ville

Mémorial des batailles de la Marne

The Memorial of the Battles of the Marne is one of four French national monuments dedicated to the First World War. Located in Dormans in Marne, in the castle park, it commemorates…

Parc du château, Av. des Victoires

Fort de Leveau

The Fort de Leveau is a museum housed in a fortress located in Feignies, in the Nord department, which was part of the Maubeuge stronghold. Dedicated to World War I, it documents t…

Rue de Mairieux

Musée de la Résistance du Mont-Mouchet

The Mont-Mouchet Resistance Museum, located in Auvers in Haute-Loire, is dedicated to the history of the Resistance in Auvergne. Set on Mont-Mouchet, a major site of regional resis…

La Devèze

Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l'Ain

The Museum of Resistance and Deportation of Ain is housed in a former prison in Nantua, in Ain. It is located in a rural area and is dedicated to the history of Resistance and Depo…

3 Mnt de l'Abbaye

Musée du 5 juin 1944

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…

4 bis Av. de la Marne

Marne 14-18 - Centre d'Interprétation

The Marne 14-18 Interpretation Center is a history museum located in Suippes, in the Marne region, dedicated to World War I and its regional impact. It offers thematic exhibitions…

4 Rlle Bayard BP 31

Musée Jean et Denise Letaille

The Bullecourt 1917 Museum - Jean and Denise Letaille Museum is located in Bullecourt, in Pas-de-Calais, in the Hauts-de-France region. Dedicated to the First World War, it particu…

1Bis Rue d'Arras

Maison de la Négritude

The House of Negritude and Human Rights is a history museum located in Champagney, in Haute-Saône. Founded under the patronage of Léopold Senghor, former president of the Republic…

24 Grande Rue

Musée de la Résistance

The Bondues Resistance Museum is a municipal museum located in the remains of the Bondues fort, in Hauts-de-France. It is dedicated to the history of the Resistance in the Nord-Pas…

2 Chem. Saint-Georges

Musée de la Résistance de Châteaubriant

The Museum of Resistance in Châteaubriant, created in 2001, is located on the site of the Quarry of the Executed, a major place of memory from World War II. Managed by the Associat…

La Sablière

Salle du Jeu de Paume

The Jeu de Paume Hall, located in Versailles in the Yvelines, is a site museum under the national heritage authority. Formerly a royal exercise and recreational hall built in 1686,…

1 Rue du Jeu de Paume

Mémorial des déportations de la ville de Marseille

The Memorial of Deportations is housed in a blockhouse built by the German army in 1943, located at the foot of Fort Saint-Jean in Marseille, facing the old neighborhoods destroyed…

1 Quai du Port

Musée de la Résistance, de l'Internement et de la Déportation

Founded in 1994, the Museum of Resistance, Internment and Deportation is located in Chamalières, in the Puy-de-Dôme. It approaches the history of the Second World War from a local,…

7 Pl. de Beaulieu

Musée de la Mémoire et de la Paix

The Museum of Memory and Peace is located in Pays-de-Clerval, in the Doubs department, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. This museum institution is dedicated to the themes of…

Rue des Terreaux

Musée de la 2ème Guerre mondiale Roger Bellon

The Roger Bellon World War II Museum is located in Conlie, in Sarthe, in the Pays-de-la-Loire region. Housed at the Camp, it is dedicated to the history of World War II. The museum…

Camp, 1 Rte de Sillé

Château des ducs de Bourbon

The Castle of the Dukes of Bourbon, located in Moulins in Allier, is a building whose construction began between 1375 and 1410 on the initiative of Louis II of Bourbon. The site un…

7 Pl. de la Déportation

Musée de la Mémoire de Belleau 1914-1918

The Belleau Memory Museum 1914-1918 is located in the heart of the village of Belleau, in the Aisne department, in the Hauts-de-France region. It is dedicated to the fighting in Be…

3 Pl. du Général Pershing

Mémorial de Dun-les-Places

The Dun-les-Places Memorial is a museum dedicated to the history of Resistance in Morvan. Located in Nièvre, in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, it offers a permanent exhibition…

rue du 11 novembre 1918

Centre de la Résistance, de la Déportation et de la Mémoire

The Centre for Resistance, Deportation and Memory is a municipal institution located in Blois, Loir-et-Cher, dedicated to the history of World War II. Located since 2019 on Victor-…

6 Pl. Victor Hugo

Mémorial Ascq 1944

The Ascq 1944 Memorial is a history museum dedicated to the massacre of 86 civilians perpetrated by soldiers of the 12th SS Hitlerjugend Division during the night of April 1-2, 194…

79 Rue Mangin

Mémorial de la Résistance

The Memorial of the Resistance of Saint-Étienne-de-Puycorbier, located in Dordogne in the Double forest, is associated with the André Voulgre museum. This place of memory is dedica…

Le Bourg

Musée néo-zélandais de la Libération - Te Arawhata

The New Zealand Museum of Liberation, Te Arawhata, located in Le Quesnoy in the North, is dedicated to New Zealand's participation in the liberation of the city at the end of the F…

18 Rue Achille Carlier

Musée Serret

The Serret Museum is a local history museum located in Saint-Amarin, in Alsace, in the Haut-Rhin. Housed in the town's former courthouse, which became a mobile military hospital fr…

7 Rue Clemenceau

Musée de la déportation

The Museum of Deportation and Resistance in Tarbes is dedicated to the history of the Second World War, particularly from the perspective of deportation and resistance experiences.…

63 Rue Georges Lassalle

Musée d'histoire du 20e siècle - Résistance et Déportation -

The Museum of 20th Century History - Resistance and Deportation is a cultural and heritage institution located in Estivareilles, in Haute-Loire. Founded in 1984 by Former Resisters…

456 route du Musée

Maquis de Saffré

The Maquis of Saffré is a memorial site dedicated to the French Resistance during World War II. Located in the Saffré forest in Loire-Atlantique near Nantes, it commemorates the ev…

Le Pass. du Houx

Musée de la Résistance de l'Aube

The Musée de la Résistance de l'Aube, located in Mussy-sur-Seine in the Grand Est region, is an establishment. It occupies a site comprising three permanent exhibition rooms and on…

6 Rue Boursault

Musée De La Résistance corse

Located in the heart of the village of Zonza in Alta Rocca, the Museum of Corsican Resistance is the only heritage institution on the island dedicated to the history of Corsica dur…

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Musée Devoir de Mémoire - Blockhaus L-434

The Duty of Memory Museum is located in the Blockhaus L-434, a military fortification situated in Saint-Omer, in the Pas-de-Calais. This museum is dedicated to the preservation and…

5 Rue des Madeleines

Espace mémoriel de la Résistance et de la Déportation

The Memorial Space for Resistance and Deportation is a museum located in Angoulême, in Charente. It is placed under the supervision of the Charente Departmental Council. This insti…

34 Rue de Genève

Musée de la Résistance en Zone interdite Nord-Pas-de-Calais

The Museum of Resistance in the Forbidden Zone is located in Denain, in the North. It documents the history of the Resistance and liberation in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region during…

9 Pl. Wilson

Musée de La Résidence

The Museum of La Résidence, located in Hennezel in Saône-Lorraine in the Vosges, is housed in a former master glassmaker's residence, La Résidence, a historic property of the Clair…

11 Rue du Moulin Robert

Collection Alsace 39/45

The Alsace 39/45 Collection is a history museum located in Ohnenheim, in the Bas-Rhin department, in the Grand Est region. Dedicated to World War II, it documents the history of Al…

67 Rue du Gén de Gaulle

Musée de la résistance et de la déportation

The Joseph Lhomenède Museum of Resistance and Deportation is located in Frugières-le-Pin, in Haute-Loire, a region of major historical significance in French resistance. Installed…

Train Station

Musée d'Histoire et d'Archéologie - Harnes

The Harnes Museum of History and Archaeology, created in 1926 by the town's war veterans, is housed in the former residence of André-Déprez, mayor, deputy and senator. Listed as a…

Rue de Picardie

Espace mémoriel de Morhange

The Morhange Memorial Space is a museum located in Moselle, in the Grand Est region. Dedicated to memory, this institution is part of an approach to transmit and preserve local her…

6 Rue Robert Schuman

Espace Hamilton-Levaufre

The Hamilton-Levaufre Space is a history museum dedicated to the liberation of Périers in Normandy, which took place on July 27, 1944 by the 90th American Infantry Division. Locate…

1 Bis Pl. du Général de Gaulle

MHeMO, Maison d'Histoire et de Mémoire d'Ongles

The House of History and Memory of Ongles (MHeMO) is a museum dedicated to welcoming families of harkis in the village of Ongles, in Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, from September 1962 on…

3 rue du château

Musée De La Résistance Nationale

The National Resistance Museum is located in Varennes-Vauzelles, in Nièvre, in a former workers' town equipped with SNCF workshops that constituted a major strategic stake during t…

4 Rue André Malraux

Musee de la Guerre Mondial

The World War Museum, located in Tosny in Eure, is a private history museum dedicated to the Second World War. The museum houses a rich and varied collection including period docum…

Musée sapeurs-pompiers de Passy le Fayet

The Passy le Fayet Firefighters Museum is located in Haute-Savoie, in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. This history museum is devoted to the heritage and history of firefighters. I…

87 Rue du Plan

Musée d’Histoire et d’Archéologie de l’Alpe d’Huez

The Museum of History and Archaeology of Alpe d'Huez is located at 1,850 meters altitude on the Grandes Rousses plateau in Isère. It offers three permanent exhibitions dedicated to…

70 Av. de Brandes

Musée-historial de la Grande Guerre

The Historial Museum of the Great War is a reference institution dedicated to World War I. Located in Péronne in the Somme, it offers a multidimensional approach to the conflict, c…

Pl. André Audinot, 80200 Péronne, France

Centre d'histoire de la résistance

The Centre for the History of Resistance and Deportation (CHRD) is a museum established in Lyon since 2003. It is dedicated to the history of the Second World War, with particular…

14 Av. Berthelot, 69007 Lyon, France

Centre national Jean Moulin

The Jean Moulin National Center is a museum located in Bordeaux, in the Gironde department. Recognized as an official institution under the Heritage Code since 2003, it is dedicate…

48 Rue Vital Carles, 33000 Bordeaux, France

Musée de la Libération de Paris - musée du général Leclerc - musée Jean Moulin

The Museum of the Liberation of Paris – General Leclerc Museum – Jean Moulin Museum is an establishment of the City of Paris located at 4, avenue du Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy, in th…

4 Av. du Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy, 75014 Paris, France

Musée du protestantisme, de la Réforme à la laïcité

The Museum of Protestantism, from the Reformation to Secularism, located in Fontrieu in the Tarn, is a museum in a rural area. It is dedicated to the history of Protestantism, from…

Fontrieu, 235 hameau la Ramade, 81260 Ferrières, France

Musée de la maison de la dernière cartouche

The Museum of the House of the Last Cartridge is a site museum located in Bazeilles, in the Ardennes, in the Grand Est region. Installed in a historic location whose name evokes an…

12 Av. de la Dernière Cartouche, 08140 Bazeilles, France

Musée du Masque de fer et du Fort Royal

The Iron Mask and Royal Fort Museum occupies the oldest part of the Royal Fort, a Vauban-style fortification built in the 17th century on the island of Sainte-Marguerite, in the Lé…

Ile Sainte Marguerite, 1 Place Bernard Cornut-Gentille, 06400 Cannes, France

Musée de Villèle

The Villèle Museum is a site museum located in Saint-Paul, on Réunion Island. It documents the local history and colonial heritage of the island, with a particular focus on the per…

Domaine Panon-Desbassyns 97435, La Réunion

Musée Jean Garcin 39-45 : l'appel de la liberté

The Jean Garcin Museum 39-45: The Call of Freedom is a museum located in a rural area in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, in the Vaucluse. Labeled as a "museum of France" under the Heritage C…

D25, 84800 Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, France

Musée de la résistance bretonne

The Museum of Breton Resistance is a site museum located in Saint-Marcel, in Morbihan, in a rural area of Brittany. It is classified under the Heritage Code. As a site museum, it i…

Pl. Gilles Possémé, 56140 Saint-Marcel, France

Musée du château des ducs de Bretagne

The museum of the castle of the Dukes of Brittany, located in the heart of the medieval district of Nantes, occupies a castle built at the end of the 15th century by Francis II and…

4 Pl. Marc Elder, 44000 Nantes, France