The Museo Historiale di Cassino (Cassino Historical Museum) presents the Second World War-era history of Cassino. The city is particularly significant for the long and bloody Battle of Monte Cassino (January 1944 to May 1944), in which approximately 55 000 Allied soldiers lost their lives (against 20 000 German casualties) to achieve a breakthrough in the advance towards…
The Museo Monumento al Deportato Politico e Razziale (Museum of Political and Racial Deportation) in Carpi presents the history of political and racial deportation in Carpi and in Italy during the period of German and fascist occupation from 1943-45. Exhibits display physical artifacts from local internees and deportees held in the nearby Campo di Concentramento e…
Countless archives in the Netherlands and other countries have been consulted, leading to the discovery of numerous previously unknown photographs. Unlike in most countires occupied by the Nazis, many of these photographs have been preserved. The exhibition of these photographs is curated by the NIOD and the event is a collaborative venture between the…
The 101st Airborne museum in Bastogne is located in the former officers mess building of the Belgian Army, built in 1936.
This prestigious building was used by the German army as "Unteroffiziersheim" during the occupation of Bastogne in WWII.
After the war it was used as a hospital by the Red Cross. This unique building with its rich history is…
The recent interest in the history of female suffrage in Ireland is welcome, although much delayed. In this centenary year the Library of Trinity College Dublin is delighted to have contributed to the work of the Houses of the Oireachtas Vótáil 100 programme, in curating this exhibition, in collaboration with several sister institutions. The exhibition seeks…
In 1947, 70 years ago, the public discovered one of the first sound recordings of Pygmy music collected in Equatorial Africa by the French ethnomusicologist Gilbert Rouget.
These were recorded during the Ogooué-Congo Mission, a scientific expedition led by the 23-year old French ethnologist Noël Ballif. This mission was the first organised by the…
The Africa Centre and the Sulger-Buel Lovell Gallery in London presented the 53 Echoes of Zaire exhibition, a collection of paintings by the late Congolese artists T. Kalema, C. Mutombo, B. Ilunga, Ndaie, and Tshibumba Kanda Matulu, the featured artist in the show.
All of the works were created in the late 1970s, less than a decade after Zaire,…
The show, curated by Rudy Lemcke, is a deep and expansive look at the ways in which the LGBT community has been shaped by violence — forms of violence committed through politics, economics and culture.
The International Memorial Society is hosting a special exhibit on Shalamov, whose famous collection of stories “Kolyma Tales” remains one of the most powerful literary portrayals of life and death in the Gulag. A poster exhibit on Lubyanskaya Ploshchad explores his life in Moscow and in exile.
The origin of the museum dates back to the Brussels International Exposition of 1897. At King Leopold II’s behest, The ‘Colonial Section’ of the exhibition was moved to the ‘Colonial Palace’ in Tervuren. The exhibition halls were home to naturalised animals, geographic samples, commodities, Congolese ethnographic and artistic objects and art objects created…
The Archivio della Resistenza e della Memoria (Archives of Resistance and Memory) in Barletta is an ongoing archival project, cataloguing and making available to the public wartime records of the city’s experience during the Second World War. Specific areas of publicized documentation include resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943-45, records of local…
The museum focuses on the Battle of the Bulge and it's located in a former Customs Office, which was by turns in German and Belgian hands in the last centuries. The museum displays dioramas and vehicles which would have been part of the historical event (jeeps, motors, half-tracks, cannons and tanks).
At the last stage of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), General Franco’s coup army concluded the occupation of Catalonia on February 10th, 1939. Seeing the Francoist advance, over 450,000 Spanish republicans fled during the winter across the border into French territory. That massive exile was known as la Retirada (the Retreat). A few months before in France, precisely on November the…
The Armenian government has shut down a museum exhibition devoted to the Stalin-era purges, prompting accusations of censorship and reviving political debates over Armenia’s Soviet legacy.
The Arras Memorial, located within the Cimetière Militaire du Faubourg d'Amiens (Faubourg d'Amiens Military Cemetery), commemorates the 34 808 British, South African, and New Zealand soldiers killed in action in the Arras region during the First World War, between Spring 1917 and August 1918, who have no known resting place. Many of these soldiers participated in the Arras Offensive of April…
Tate Britain presents a major exhibition of art associated with the British Empire from the 16th century to the present day. Featuring a vast array of objects from collections across Britain, including maps, flags, paintings, photographs, sculptures and artefacts, the exhibition examines how the histories of the British Empire have shaped art past and…
The International Museum of Political Violence in Rotterdam explores the wide spectrum of political violence throughout history through visual arts, design, multimedia, and (educational) technology.
The Museum is a permanent exploration of the arts and sciences in security history. The Museum is interested in the causes, dynamics and impact of…
The Aula della Memoria di Colle Ameno (Colle Ameno Hall of Memory) is part of the Borgo di Colle Ameno cultural complex, housed in the Villa Davia, which includes preserved 17th century buildings, art and craft workshops, and local cultural associations. The Hall of Memory displays the community’s experience in the Second World War and under…
The Balkan Wars Museum (Greek: Μουσείο Βαλκανικών Πολέμων) is a museum in Gefyra, west of Thessaloniki, Central Macedonia, Greece, dedicated to the Balkan Wars. The museum was founded on 26 October 1999. It occupies a two-storey building, built at the end of the nineteenth century near the entrance to the village. It is known as the Villa Topsin and it was…
The Belarusian State Museum of the History of the Great Patriotic War was the world's first museum to tell the story of the bloodiest war of the 20th century, and the only one in Belarus created during the years of Nazi occupation.
The museum first opened shortly after the liberation of Minsk from the Nazi invaders, on 25…
Beth Shalom (lit. "House of Peace") is a Holocaust memorial centre near Laxton in Nottinghamshire in England. Opened in 1995, it is England's only dedicated Holocaust museum, though there is also a permanent exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum. The centre was founded by brothers James and Stephen Smith following a 1991 visit to Israel during which a…
The Biblioteca e Museo Virtuale dell’Antifascismo e della Resistenza della Provincia di Arezzo (Province of Arezzo Library and Virtual Museum of Reistance and Antifascism) in Sansepolcro documents the local history of antifascism, war, and resistance to German and fascist occupation in 1943-45. Local documents are catalogued and digitized to be made available online;…
The Big Red One Assault Museum commemorates and records the actions of the United States’ 1st Infantry Division in the Battle of Normandy, following its landing at nearby Omaha Beach in 1944. The 1st Infantry Division, known as ‘Big Red One’ in reference to its large, red numeral ‘1’ combat service identification badge or shoulder patch, is a longstanding infantry unit organized in 1917 for…
On the southern outskirts of Moscow in the settlement of Butovo lies a memorial complex where Soviet state security (NKVD) executed and buried more than 20,000 people in unmarked mass graves. Between 1937-38, thousands of “enemies of the people,” including labor camp prisoners, former tsarist officers, and members of the clergy, were murdered in this killing…
The Mémorial de Caen is a museum and war memorial in Caen, Normandy, France commemorating World War II and the Battle for Caen. More generally, the museum is dedicated to the history of the twentieth century, mainly focused on the fragility of peace. Its intention is "pay a tribute to the martyred city of the liberation" but also to tell "what was the…
Franco’s army supporting the coup d’état steadily advanced, causing a constant exile of Republicans running away both from the bombings and the violent repression carried out by the army in the areas they were gradually occupying. The defeat of Barcelona, taking place on January 26th, 1939, was the main trigger to the massive exile towards the French border, known as la Retirada…
This site constitutes an online documentation center on internment and imprisonment camps implemented by the Italian State in the period from Benito Mussolini's seizure of power (1922) until the end of the Second World War (1945). At the moment (April 2020) the site contains the following categories:
- Concentration camps
- Forced labor camps
- Transit camps
-…
The Campo di Concentramento e Transito di Fòssoli (Fòssoli Concentration and Transit Camp) outside of Carpi is the remains of an internment and transit camp operated by Italian Social Republic and German occupation authorities from 1943-45. Constructed by the Italian Army as a prisoner-of-war facility in 1942, the site changed hands following the German occupation of…
Canadian forces played an important role in the liberation of Flanders. The Canada War Museum was opened in 1995 to pay tribute to these men who chased the axis oppressors out of large parts of Flanders.
The Casa della Memoria della Resistenza e della Deportazione di Vinchio (Vinchio House of Memory, Resistance, and Deportation) presents the history of resistance and deportation in the town of Vinchio and the surrounding community under German and fascist occupation from 1943 to 1945.
The museum’s permanent exhibit includes photographs…
The Casa della Resistanza (House of Resistance) in the town of Fondotce is a center for the Associazione Casa della Resistenza (Association for the House of Resistance) which seeks to further research, documentation, and education on resistance and liberation in the region from 1943 to 1945.
The Casa della Resistanza is located within the…
This museum pays homage to the partisans who sacrificed their lives in the struggle against fascism. It's hard to believe that the high valleys and peaceful mountain peaks surrounding Lake Maggiore where the scene of massacres and fierce fighting during World War II. But it was here that many partisan units organized and, aided and supported by the local…
The Casa Museo Raggruppamento Divisioni Patrioti Alfredo di Dio (Alfredo di Dio Partisan House Museum) records the history of partisan activity and resistance to German and fascist occupation in Ornavasso and the surrounding region from 1943 to 1945, most notably the formation and activities of the Valtoce Partisan Division (Divisione Valtoce). The museum,…
The Centre d’Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation (Centre for History of Resistance and Deportation) in Lyon is a museum and a centre for research and study on resistance and deportation in the city during the Second World War.
The Centre d’Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation is located within the premises of a…
The Centre d'Histoire de la Résistance et de la Déportation en Ariège (Centre for the History of Resistance and Deportation in Ariège) in Varilhes is a museum and documentation centre on local life, resistance, and deportation in Ariège during the Second World War. A permanent exhibit is divided into three thematic sections: Resistance, which presents the formation and…
The Centre de la Mémoire d’Oradour-sur-Glane (Oradour-sur-Glane Centre of Memory) preserves and commemorates the remnants of the village-martyr (martyred town) town of Oradour-sur-Glane, Haute-Vienne. The town was destroyed and its inhabitants massacred on June 10, 1944 by units from the 4th Panzer Grenadier Regiment Der Fuhrer attached to the 2nd Waffen…
The Centre de la Résistance, de la Déportation et de la Mémoire (Centre of Resistance, Deportation, and Memory) in Blois examines the history of resistance in Blois and the surrounding Loir-et-Cher départment during the Second World War. The museum presents a permanent exhibition containing period artifacts of resistance including documents, photographs, uniforms. etc. which describes…
The Centre d’Interprétation de la Ligne de Démarcation (Interpretive Centre on the Demarcation Line) in Génelard describes itself as “the first institution in France” dedicated to specifically presenting the history of the French Demarcation Line which from June 22, 1940 to November 11, 1942 divided metropolitan France into the Occupied and Free Zones. Implemented by the Armistice…
The Centre Européen du Résistant Déporté (European Centre of the Deported Resistance Fighter) is a permanent historical exhibit, memorial, and centre for study and research on internment and deportation in France during the Second World War. The site is located within the preserved remains of the former Natzweiler-Struthof Concentration Camp, which was operated by German…
The Centre Jean Moulin is an archives and research centre on the history of French resistance during the Second World War. Named for the first leader of the Conseil National de la Résistance (National Council of the Resistance) in 1943, the centre presents displays on the numerous different resistance groups and their evolution and collaboration over time. Documents kept by the centre include…
The Centre National d'Études de la Résistance et de la Déportation Edmond Michelet (Edmond Michelet Centre for National Studies on Resistance and Deportation) in Brive-la-Gaillarde is located within the former home of Michelet, a member of the French Resistance during the Second World War. With the German occupation of France in 1940, Michelet became involved in resistance efforts: under the…
The Centre Régional de la Résistance et de la Déportation de Castelnau-le-Lez (Castelnau-le-Lez Regional Centre for Resistance and Deportation) is a centre for research and learning on the local history of resistance and deportation in Castelnau-le-Lez. It is intended "to perpetuate the memory of resistance and deportation, especially among young people, and to serve as a pedagogical tool for…
The Centre Régional Résistance et Liberté (Regional Centre for Resistance and Liberty) in Thouars is a permanent historical exhibit and centre for study and research on resistance in France during the Second World War. The exhibit contains audiovisual displays on both local and national wartime resistance, and is divided into three thematic and pedagogic sections: “React”, “Engage…
The Centre Résistance et Déportation Arles et Pays d'Arles (Center for Resistance and Deportation in Arles and the Arles Region) records the history of Arles and the surrounding region from 1939 to 1945 through the lens of resistance and deportation. Its goal is to act as a place of collection, conservation, and research of documents and testimonies from the period, and to serve as a center of…
The Historical Memory Documentary Centre, with headquarters in Salamanca, is a state-owned and state-managed centre under the Sub-directorate of National Archives. Among its duties, are the following:
- To preserve and to develop the General Archive of the Spanish Civil War.
- To recover, organise, preserve and disseminate the archival holdings and secondary sources on…
The Centro Imolese di Documentazione sulla Resistenza Antifascista e Storia Contemporanea (Imola Documentation Centre on Antifascist Resistance and Contemporary History) or CIDRA is a local centre for the documentation, research, and public history relating to local experiences of war, fascism, and antifascist resistance. In addition to ongoing research work, the centre…
The history of Cerbère, a small town at the Côte Vermeille has been always subjected to their status as a border area. On 1864, France and Spain signed an agreement to connect their railway lines through the Belitres mountain pass, natural path of communication among Cerbère and the adjacent Spanish town Portbou. This decision entailed the building of a railway station in each town…
This online exhibition provides insight into some of the ways in which children were affected by the Balkan wars of the 1990s and the Rwandan genocide of 1994.
Cases brought before the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) did not focus on the age of victims per…
This website holds detailed information on over 6000 films showing images of life in the British colonies. Over 150 films are available for viewing online. You can search or browse for films by country, date, topic, or keyword. Over 350 of the most important films in the catalogue are presented with extensive critical notes written by our academic research…
The exhibition focuses on a forgotten aspect of the colonial war in the Dutch East Indies: the influence of the Dutch military intelligence services on how the Dutch media reported on the conflict. The exhibition casts a different light on the colonial war and shows the power and impact of photography and film. The official image of the war on Java and…
The passion for history of Philippe Gillain and Gérard Grégoire was the origin of the December44 Museum. Philippe has collected military uniforms and material since he was 14. He explored the Ardennes battlefields to find some material left by both camps. While visiting La Gleize, in the 60's, he discovered an enormous quantity of uniforms and material…
During the Nazi occupation of Luxembourg (May 1940 – September 1944), the train station in Hollerich served as one of the main gathering sites and departure points for young Luxembourgers forced to join the German labour service ( the “RAD”) and the German military service.
Furthermore, thousands of politically unfavourable Luxembourgers were…
The Deutsches Historisches Museum is dealing for the first time with various aspects of German colonialism in an exhibition with more than 500 objects. Although the German Empire was one of the major European colonial powers, only in recent years has Germany‘s colonial past found its way into public consciousness to a significant degree. The exhibition of…
The city of Dien Bien Phu, in North Vietnam, is mainly an historical site related to Indochina War. This museum is dedicated to the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Điện Biên Phủ) in 1954. The collection mainly consists of assorted weaponry used by the French forces and the Viet Minh.
Doftana was a Romanian prison, sometimes referred to as "the Romanian Bastille". Built in 1895 in connection with the nearby mines, from 1921 it began to be used to detain political prisoners, among them …
Dongo is the place where Benito Mussolini and the fascist ministers of the RSI (Italian Social Republic) were captured on 27th April 1945.They were all taken to the Town Hall, in Palazzo Manzi, in order to formalize the arrest. Only a few days before, the Golden Room (the hall of honour of Palazzo Manzi) was arranged as mortuary for the bodies of the…
The focus of Verzetsmusuem is about the German Occupation as well as Nazi rule in Holland during the second world war between 1940 and 1945. The museum aptly show the persecution of Jews by the Nazis and world war two in general. The permanent exhibition covers all forms of resistance: strikes, forging of documents, helping people to go into hiding,…
The Ecomuseo della Resistenza (Ecomuseum of Resistance) in the town of Coazze presents the history of resistance, partisan activity, and liberation in the Sangone Valley (Val Sangone) from 1943 to 1945. An exhibition includes weapons, clothing and uniforms, other objects, written records, photographs, and audio testimony which document German and fascist…
The Ecomuseo della Resistenza "Il Codirosso" (Ecomuseum of the Resisance “Il Codirosso”) in Rossana presents the history of partisan resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943 to 1945 in Rossana and the surrounding Varaita Valley. A permanent exhibit displays weapons, uniforms and clothing, books and films, drawings and artwork, audio testimonies and interviews…
The National Military Museum is located at the north western area of the three Haram Palaces, inside the Cairo Citadel. It overlooks the Mokattam hills and the entrance to the Citadel. The Haram Palaces were originally constructed by …
L'Espace Mémoriel de la Résistance et de la Déportation (Memorial to Resistance and Deportation) traces the history of resistance and deportation in Agen and in the surrounding Lot-et-Garonne départment from 1939 through 1944. The memorial space contains period documents and objects, and is designed to capture the varied wartime experiences of citizens, local resistance groups, and those who…
The “Espais de la Batalla de l’Ebre” (Ebro Battle Spaces) are a set of cultural assets linked to the recovery of the historical memory of one of the most transcendental events of the Spanish Civil War. Formed by a combination of interpretation centres and historical spaces, this asset is managed by the “Consorci Memorial dels Espais de la Batalla de l'Ebre” (Comebe) (Memorial of the Spaces of…
The newly independent Finland was plunged into civil war in January 1918. The main focus of the exhibition are individuals who experienced this tragedy.
Immortalised at the photography studio Atelier Nyblin in Helsinki in 1918, these individuals are eyewitnesses to their era, and through them the war’s tragic chain of events is laid out before us…
This is the main memorial (as well as research/educational) centre in Norway about the camps for political prisoners, POWs and Jews that were established by the Nazis during Germany's occupation of Norway. The centre's scope goes somewhat beyond that narrower framework and also touches on other human rights issues and genocides of the post-WWII period.…
The Fondazione Museo Storico del Trentino (Trento Historial Museum Foundation), the municipal museum for the city and autonomous region of Trento, presents the history of the region from the end of the 18th century to the present day; this includes significant material on Trento’s experiences in both the First and Second World War, the rise of Italian fascism, local…
The Fondazione Villa Emma (Villa Emma Foundation) is a cultural centre and historic organization established in Nonantola to commemorate the actions of the town and its residents in housing and sheltering 73 Jewish children and youth between Summer 1942 and Fall 1943. A total of 73 youth between the ages of six and 21 arrived in Nonantola over this period in two large refugee…
After the German Wehrmacht's invasion of Belgium in 1940, the fort was used as a Gestapo prison and as a collection camp. About 7,000 Belgians and foreigners were held captive here, among them many resistance fighters and political opponents. The Fort of Huy was one of the central departure points for transports from Belgium to the National Socialist…
The main exhibition is devoted to the impact of the Second World War in Friesland. Individual stories, objects, photographs, film fragments and documents retell stories that are passed down from generation to generation.
The Fries Verzetsmuseum has been informing and educating people about the story of Friesland during the Second World War since…
The museum documents the harsh struggle of the Danish resistance against the Nazis with the use of photographs, maps, dioramas and personal letters from members of the resistance.
Gelibolu (Gallipoli) is a ilçe (district) center of Çanakkale Province in Turkish Thrace. It is situated in the north east of a peninsula bearing the same name. Its name is well known because of the Gallipoli Campaign, a series of 1915-battles during the World War I. There are frequent references to other wars also. Withdrawal room is the room of Allies…
The Gonars concentration camp was located in the town of Gonars, in the province of Udine in Friuli-Venezia Giulia, in the northeast of Italy, near the border with modern-day Slovenia. The region has been a hub for much interaction and exchange between the two cultures for centuries. Although technically on Italian soil, the area was and is a blend of both ethnic Italians and ethnic…
The Museum of the Great War in Marmolada had a creator, Dr. Mario Bartoli, and a financer, Dr. Bruno Vascellari. Both men were pioneers in the world of Museums dedicated to the memory of the Fallen in the Great War and the Marmolada Museum was inaugurated on June 9th, 1990. Shortly afterward, many others began opening in different towns.
In 2015…
Westerbork itself was first and foremost a transit camp, from which deportations took place to Auschwitz, Sobibor, and in a select few cases to Theresienstadt or Bergen-Belsen. On the 15th…
While Camp Westerbork is mainly known for the period between 1942 and 1945, it was initially built in the summer of 1939 to house Jewish refugees coming from Germany. The acceptance of Jewish refugees into the Netherlands, however, was initially certainly not the norm. In 1938, after the first overt persecution of the Jews in Germany (the …
The Museum of the Great War (French: Historial de la Grande Guerre) located near the heart of the World War I Somme battlefields, is housed within the Château de Péronne, a castle in the town of Péronne, France. Péronne was under German occupation during the war, and inhabitants of it suffered a lot because their town was almost completely destroyed. The…
Originally, the Hollandsche Schouwburg was a Dutch theatre, but it was deemed as a Jewish theatre in 1941 by Nazi occupiers and it was later used as a deportation center during the Holocaust in the Netherlands.
On 4 May 1962, the theater was dedicated as a general memorial site by the mayor of Amsterdam. The auditorium of the theater was…
The Hollandse Schouwburg (Dutch theater) was opened on the 5th of May 1892 in the Amsterdam Plantage District, it was designed by the Dutch architect Cornelis Antonius Bombach. Initially it was named the Artis Schouwburg, but two years later it was renamed the Hollandsche Schouwburg. In the beginning of the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, little changed in the daily life of the theater,…
Vilna Gaon Jewish State Museum (Lithuanian: Valstybinis Vilniaus Gaono Žydụ Muziejus; Yiddish: דער ווילנער גאון מלוכהשער יידישער מוזיי) is a Lithuanian museum dedicated to the historical and cultural heritage of Lithuanian Jewry.
Opened on the 60th anniversary of the Holocaust, the center is the first of its kind in central Europe to be government funded. A refurbished eclectic synagogue is located in the center of the building.
The Holocaust Memorial Center is a renovated synagogue that dates back to the 1920s and serves as a memorial and museum for and about Hungarian…
The Holocaust Memorial Center for the Jews of Macedonia (Macedonian: Меморијален центар на холокаустот на Евреите од Македонија, Memorijalen centar na holokaustot na Evreite od Makedonija; Ladino: Sentro Memorial del Holokausto de los Djudios de la Makedonia) is a memorial to the holocaust of the 7,148 Jews from North Macedonia and the history of the Jews in…
Gomel Regional Museum of Millitary Glory was opened in 2004 on the eve of the 60th anniversary of liberation of Belarus from Nazi invaders. On April 26, 2005. full museum complex was opened, the ceremony was attended by President of the Republic of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko. The exposition of the Museum is dedicated to the reflection of the events of Gomel military history from…
The "Hotel Silber" in Stuttgart was used by the police for more than half a century and was the headquarters of the Gestapo for Württemberg and Hohenzollern. In the former site of Nazi terror, a place for historical-political learning and encounter was created as a citizen participation project. The exhibition and various events deal with perpetrators and their victims, with the police…
This museum that tries to convey what it was like for Albanians living under the police state of the Hoxha regime from 1945-1991. It was forbidden to say anything critical of the government - even a comment about the lack of bread on the shelves at the bakery could be enough for someone to arrested. The climate of fear was experienced by everyone and has a…
The House of Slaves (Maison des Esclaves) and its Door of No Return is a museum and memorial to the Atlantic slave trade on Gorée Island, 3 km off the coast of the city of Dakar, Senegal. Its museum, which was opened in 1962 and curated until Boubacar Joseph Ndiaye's death in 2009, is said to memorialise the final exit point of the slaves from Africa. While…
House of Terror is a museum located at Andrássy út 60 in Budapest, Hungary. It contains exhibits related to the fascist and …
A family of five museums recording and showcasing experiences of modern conflict. Some of those experiences paint a picture of everyday life in wartime, others give us a glimpse of something exceptional. All of them help us to explore the causes of war and its impact on people’s lives. IWM was founded in the midst of the First World War with a mission to…
The Independence Memorial Museum is a historical museum in Windhoek, Namibia. It focuses on the anti-colonial resistance and the national liberation struggle of Namibia. The museum is located on Robert Mugabe Avenue and was designed and built by Mansudae Overseas Projects, a North Korean firm. The museum was inaugurated on March 21, 2014, the twenty-fourth…
The International Slavery Museum increases the understanding of transatlantic, chattel and other forms of enslavement. Through our collections, public engagement and research, we explore their impact and legacies.
We are a campaigning museum that actively engages with contemporary human rights issues. We address ignorance and challenge…
Istanbul Military Museum (Turkish: Askerî Müze) is dedicated to one thousand years of Turkish military history. It is one of the leading museums of its kind in the world. The museum is open to the public everyday except Mondays and Tuesdays.
The museum initially opened in Saint Irene Church. Later in 1950, it was moved to the First Army…
The Jewish Museum Berlin (Jüdisches Museum Berlin) was opened in 2001 and is the largest Jewish museum in Europe. It consists of three buildings, two of which are new additions specifically built for the museum by architect Daniel Libeskind. German-Jewish history is documented in the collections, the library and the archive, and is reflected in the museum's…
The museum showcases Rwanda’s colonial era under Germany and the cooperation between the two countries. Kandt House Museum derives its name from Richard Kandt, the German physician and explorer who constructed and resided in the house in 1908, marking the birth of the capital of Kigali. The Kandt House hosts historical products that were seen or used in…
The Kazerne Dossin – Memorial, Museum and Documentation Centre on Holocaust and Human Rights is a museum in Mechelen, Belgium established next to the former Mechelen transit camp from which Belgian Jews and Romani were sent to concentration camps during the Holocaust in World War II. During World War II, Dossin Barracks was known as between 1942 and 1944, 25…
Klooga concentration camp was a Nazi forced labor subcamp of the Vaivara concentration camp complex established in September 1943 in Harju County, during World War II, in German-occupied Estonia near the village of Klooga. The Vaivara camp complex was commanded by German officers Hans Aumeier, Otto Brennais and Franz von Bodmann and consisted of 20 field…
The Kobarid is Slovenia's best antiwar museum, dedicated to the memory of those who lost their lives in the fierce battle of Caporetto (Kobarid), which took place near this peaceful town, now a center for adventure activities.
The famous museum about the findings during the First World War received the highest national certificate for museums,…
The Museum is dedicated to the events of the First World War on the Isonzo Front. It presents two and a half years of warfare in the Upper Soča Valley, and devotes particular attention to the twelfth Soča battle, known as the Battle of Kobarid. The Museum features numerous interesting exhibits, a relief model of the Soča River Basin, an extensive…
Kolyma was a name that struck fear into the Gulag prisoner. Reputedly the coldest inhabited place on the planet, prisoners spoke of Kolyma as a place where 12 months were winter and all the rest summer. Kolyma was so remote that it could not be reached by an overland route. Prisoners traveled by train across the length of the Soviet Union only to spend up to several months on the Pacific coast…
The Kreuzstadl Memorial in Rechnitz remembers the victims of the Southeast Wall construction. In the night of 24/25 March 1945, around 180 physically weak Hungarian Jewish slave laborers were murdered an buried by 15 members of the National Socialist party comradeship party held in Schloss Bátthyány. Despite an intensive search and excavations, the mass…
The La Couple: Centre d’Histoire et Planétarium 3D (‘La Coupole’ Historic Centre and 3D Planetarium) site is a museum housed within a former German bunker complex and V2 Rocket Base. Designed by the German Organisation Todt and constructed from 1943 to 1944, the site was intended as a major launching point for V2 Rockets against targets in England. While construction continued for…
Walking through downtown Moscow, an attentive observer might occasionally notice small silver plaques attached to the entrances of apartment buildings. These memorials are part of the Last Address project commemorating the life and last residence of ordinary people murdered during Stalin’s purges. Inspired by the brass cobblestone project in Germany that…
The Latvian War Museum (Latvian: Latvijas Kara muzejs) is a military museum in Riga, the capital of …
Le Grand Bunker: Musée du Mur de l’Atlantique (The Grand Bunker: Atlantic Wall Museum) is a concrete bunker which served as part of the Atlantic Wall: the German series of coastal defensive fortifications constructed to oppose Allied landings during the Second World War following the occupation of France. The bunker was a five-story concrete blockhouse which served as…
The museum, located in a memorial site, is dedicated to the French Maquis resistance against the advancement of German troops towards Normandy during World War II.
Museum memorializing victims of occupation regimes set in a large, storied prison built around 1890.
The Lwandle Migrant Labour Museum is a memorial to the system of migrant labour, single sex hostels and the control of black workers through the identity document which controlled the lives of black South Africans under apartheid.
The museum reminds residents and visitors of the horrific living conditions that the migrant labour system imposed.…
The Maison d’Izieu (Izieu House) is a museum and memorial which presents the history of the Holocaust in France, particularly the experiences of Jewish children, and informs the visitor on the crimes committed during that time as well as the subsequent establishment of international laws and commemoration.
The Maison d’Izieu was active during the…
The Maison Natale Charles de Gaulle (Birthplace of Charles de Gaulle) is the preserved home in which former French President Charles de Gaulle was born on November 22, 1890. The home of de Gaulle’s grandparents, it was a place to which he returned on vacation and for family reunions during his childhood.
Today, the building operates as a…
The Mausoleo Fosse Ardeatine (Fosse Ardeatine Mausoleum) commemorates the Fosse Ardeatine Massacre: the killing of 335 civilian residents of Rome by German SS forces under the command of German SIPO and SD Chief in Rome, Herbert Kappler on March 24, 1944. The massacre was carried out in retaliation for partisan attacks on German occupation forces, the Polizei Regiment Bozen…
Mauthausen was declared a national memorial site in 1949. Bruno Kreisky, the Chancellor of Austria, officially opened the Mauthausen Museum on 3 May 1975, 30 years after the camp's liberation. A visitor centre was inaugurated in 2003, designed by the architects Herwig Mayer, Christoph Schwarz, and Karl Peyrer-Heimstätt, covering an area of 2,845 square…
The Mémorial 39-45 (39-45 Memorial) in Saint-Malo is a memorial museum constructed within a concrete blockhouse located in the Fort d’Alet, formerly part of the German network of coastal defences during the Second World War. The small museum contains a permanent exhibit on Saint-Malo in wartime, and displays military weapons, equipment, and uniforms as well as preserved…
The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum was created by an act of the Polish parliament on July 2, 1947, and includes the grounds of two extant parts of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camps. The Museum grounds cover 191 hectares, of which 20 are at Auschwitz I and 171 at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. On the museum grounds stand several hundred…
The single in Russia museum of the history of political repression “Perm-36” includes the preserved and reconstructed buildings of the camp (correctional labor colony) for political prisoners where during the Soviet era the dissidents, nonconformists, active fighters for the human rights in the Soviet Union, the opponents of the communist regime, the…
The Centre is dedicated to the one event of the World War II history, to the suffering of 30 April 1944 when 269 inhabitants of Lipa were killed in just a few hours. Victims were all civilians, mainly elderly people, women and children. This crime was committed by the Nazis and Fascists during the Braunschweig offensive, a military operation aimed against…
The Memorial Centre Lipa Remembers (Memorijalni centar Lipa pamti) is a museum institution opened in April 2015 in a small locality of Lipa situated on the border between Croatia and Slovenia. Center functiones as a part of a larger Maritime and History Museum of the Croatian Littoral situated in Rijeka and it is cofounded by the …
While the Memorial to the Abolition of Slavery contributes to remembrance and the public record of memory in the city, the Nantes History Museum, located in the Château des Ducs de Bretagne, provides the keys to understanding the city’s slave-trading history, extensively presented in the permanent exhibit.
Both locations are connected through a walk in…
The Mémorial de la Résistance en Vercors (Memorial of Resistance in Vercors) commemorates the actions and the fallen of the French Resistance, notably the Maquis, in the region of the Vercors Massif during the Second World War. A geographically imposing and fairly remote plateau populated by scattered villages, the Vercors Massif provided an opportunity for members of the French…
The Mémorial de la Résistance et de la Déportation de la Loire (Lore Resistance and Deportation Memorial) in Saint-Étienne is a memorial to the internment and deportation which occurred in France during the Second World War, facilitated by French and German authorities. While it is a memorial to internment and deportation in general, it is in particular a memorial to…
The Mémorial de la Shoah (Shoah Memorial) in Paris is a permanent memorial and resting place, a historical exhibit, and a leading centre for research and study on the Shoah in France and Europe. The current permanent exhibition on the history of the Shoah and witness testimonies of persecution, roundups, internment, and deportation was inaugurated in 2005, while the site…
The Mémorial de la Shoah de Drancy (Drancy Shoah Memorial) is located at the site of the former Camp de Drancy, a major internment, transit, and deportation site chiefly for Jewish peoples and operated by French and later German SS authorities from 1941 to 1944. Established in a large residential building built between 1931 and 1934 and designed as a modernist, urban living space with the name…
The Mémorial de l’Internement et de la Déportation (Memorial of Internment and Deportation) in Compiègne is located on the site of the former Camp de Royallieu, an internment, transit, and deportation camp employed by German occupation authorities from June 1941 to August 1944. First constructed as a military barracks by the French Army in 1913, the site was repurposed following…
The mission of Memorial Democràtic is the recovery, commemoration and promotion of democratic memory in Catalonia (1931-1980). This historical period encompasses the Second Republic, the Civil War, the Franco dictatorship and the transition to democracy. The Democratic Memorial emphasizes the recovery of victims' memory for ideological, conscientious, religious or social reasons, as well as…
The Mémorial des Déportations (Deportations Memorial) in Marseille is a memorial to occupation, repression, persecution, and deportation in the city during the Second World War in general, and to the deportations which occurred under German occupation in 1943 in particular.
Located within a former casemate constructed by German…
The Mémorial du 19 Août 1942 (Memorial August 19, 1942) commemorates the failed Anglo-Canadian raid on the German-occupied coastal town of Dieppe, and the loss of life that occurred there on August 19, 1942. Codenamed Operation Jubilee, the raid involved the participation of the 2nd Canadian Infantry Division led by Major General J.H. Roberts. With the goal of capturing and holding Dieppe for…
The Mémorial du Camp de Rivesaltes (Rivesaltes Camp Memorial) commemorates the former Camp de Rivesaltes, an internment camp outside Perpignan. The site was one of numerous internment camps constructed by French authorities in 1939 in response to the refugee crisis of the Retirada, in which hundreds of thousands of Spanish Republican soldiers and civilians,…
The Mémorial Jean Moulin (Jean Moulin Memorial) commemorates the former house of Dr. Frédéric Dugoujon where on June 21, 1943, Jean Moulin together with Dugoujon and other resistance leaders Henri Aubry, Raymond Aubrac, Bruno Larat, André Lassagne, Albert Lacaze, and Émile Schwarzfeld were arrested by German authorities. Moulin was detained at Lyon's Montluc Prison, and was tortured by Gestapo…
This evocative memorial to people who died because of Communism in Romania occupies a former prison in Maramures, not far from the Ukraine border. Each of the cells, including the one where former Prime Minister Iuliu Maniu died, is an exhibition space.
The Mémorial Nationale de la Prison de Montluc (Montluc Prison National Memorial) in Lyon is located at the site of the former Montluc prison, best known for its use by German occupation authorities to intern prisoners and deportees from January 1943 to August 1944.
Constructed in 1921, Montluc Prison was employed by Vichy as a military…
The Mémorial Pégasus (Pegasus Memorial) in Ranville is a museum and memorial to the activities of the British Army’s 6th Airborne Division during Normandy Landings and the subsequent Battle of Normandy from June to September, 1944. Under the command of Major-General Richard Gale, the unit engaged in numerous offensive operations in support of the D-Day landings and the…
The Memoriale della Shoah is a Holocaust memorial at the Milano Centrale railway station commemorating the Jewish prisoners deported from there during the Holocaust in Italy. Jewish prisoners from the San Vittore Prison, Milan, were taken from there to a secret underground platform, Platform 21 (Italian: Binario 21), to be loaded on freight cars and taken on…
The Military Museum (Serbian Latin: Vojni muzej) is a museum located in Belgrade, Serbia. Founded in 1878, the museum has over 3,000 ancient and modern items. These include Roman swords and helmets, Greek helmets and daggers, Serbian heavy knight's armor, axes, shields, helmets, crossbows, armoured gloves, as well as Western medieval weapons. There are also…
Being the first of its kind, this place carves the memory of a continual stage in the history of Lebanon. This is a natural museum, surrounded by the captivating nature and mountains. Its aim is to preserve the places where the Mujahideen lived, giving people the chance to be acquainted with the style of the unique experience of the Islamic resistance…
Set in a 1920s black-and-white bungalow, this gallery showcases the cosmopolitan nature of Singapore as a British Crown colony in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Ghetto Heroes Monument (Polish: pomnik Bohaterów Getta) is a monument in Warsaw, Poland, commemorating the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 during the Second World War. It is located in the area which was formerly a part of the Warsaw Ghetto, at the spot where the first armed clash of the uprising took place.
The monument was built partly of…
The monument was founded by Jacek Eisner. Its form refers to the high wall of the ghetto with barbed wire, to which plates, arranged in the shape of a menorah, lead. Ruins of the ghetto were placed at the bottom of the monument, on the surface of which are photographs of Jewish children who died during World War II. There is a plaque underneath it written in…
The Monumento au Caduti di Monte Sabbiuno (Mount Sabbiuno Monument to the Fallen) commemorates the execution of at least 53 Italian partisans by German forces, in two groups on December 14 and 23, 1944. The partisans were largely members of the Gruppi di Azione Patriottica (GAP) and the 63a Brigate Bolero from the communities of Anzola, Calderara di Reno…
The Monumento Ossario ai Caduti Partigiani (Fallen Partisans Ossuary Monument) is located in Bologna’s Cimitero Monumentale della Certosa (Certosa Memorial Cemetary) and commemorates the names and resting place of more than 500 Italian partisans who were native to Bologna. It was inaugurated on October 31, 1959.
The MuSa or Museo di Salò (Salò Museum) is a municipal museum which presents the history of the city of Salò. The museum is located within the former Church of Santa Giustina, constructed between 1588 and 1608. Damaged by fighting during the Second Italian War of Independence in 1859, the building was deconsecrated and employed as a school; starting in the 1990s, discussions…
The Musée 39 - 45 contains objects, weapons, equipment, civilian clothing, and military uniforms dating from the Second World War. Founded by military collectors Denis Barbe and Christophe Deschodt, the museum presents thousands of individual artifacts; more than 120 museum mannequins are displayed as personnel from numerous armed forces, equipped with period uniforms and weaponry and…
The Musée Airborne (Airborne Museum) in Sainte-Mère-Église commemorates and displays artifacts from the American airborne infantry of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions, and their role in the Normandy Landings and the Battle of Normandy from June to August, 1944.
The museum’s permanent exhibits present the paratroopers’ role in the Normandy…
The Musée de la Déportation et de la Résistance (Museum of Resistance and Deportation) in Tarbes presents the local history of Resistance and Deportation in Tarbes and the surrounding Haute-Pyrénées region during the Second World War. A permanent collection displays military weapons and uniforms alongside photographic and printed records of daily life in wartime, under occupation,…
The Musée de la Libération (Museum of Liberation) in Cherbourg-en-Cotentin presents the history of Cherbourg during the Second World War. Beginning with the Battle of France and German occupation of Cherbourg in 1940, the museum describes the city’s crucial strategic importance as a deep-water channel port and as a main Allied objective during the Battle of Normandy. Occupied by German…
The Musée de la Libération de Paris contains two separate museums which document the lives of two individuals responsible for resistance and liberation in Paris and France. These are Général Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque (1902-1947), a Free French general who participated in the Liberation of Paris and was named Marshall of France following his death, and Jean Moulin (1899-1943…
The Musée de la Reddition (Museum of Surrender) in Reims commemorates the end of the Second World War in Europe at the actual site of surrender between Allied and German commanders at 2:41 AM on May 7, 1945. The museum is housed in the Lycée Roosevelt, at that time the Collège Moderne et Technique de Reims, which in May 1945 served as headquarters for the Supreme Headquarters…
The Musée de la Résistance (Museum of Resistance) in Peyrat-le-Château presents the local history of resistance to German occupation and the Vichy Regime during the Second World War. Housed in Peyrat-le-Château’s town hall, permanent exhibitions discuss the outbreak of war and civilian life under war and occupation, the formation of local resistance and maquis groups,…
The Musée de la Résistance Azuréenne (Azur Museum of Resistance) in Nice is a museum and research centre on resistance and deportation in the Azur region of France during the Second World War. A permanent exhibition presents records of local resistance and displays military weapons, uniforms, and equipment, printed materials, and artifacts of deportation. …
The Breton Resistance Museum in Saint-Marcel, in the Landes de Lanvaux, pays homage to this group which played such an important role in the liberation of Brittany. Built on a site which saw actual fighting, now 6 hectares of wooded grounds, the museum offers 1500 sq. metres of exhibits depicting the involvement of the Bretons during the Second World War.…
The Musée de la Résistance d'Anterrieux (Museum of Resistance in Anterrieux) was opened in 1999 to record and commemorate the actions of local Resistance and Maquis groups and of the French Forces of the Interior in the region during the Second World War. In particular, the museum describes the events of the Bataille du Réduit de la Truyère (Battle of the Truyère Redoubt) on June 20, 1944 and…
The Musée de la Résistance de Bondues (Bondues Museum of Resistance) is located within Fort Lobau, part of a series of military fortifications conceived following the Franco-Prussian War; construction was begun in 1878, and completed in 1884. Following German occupation of France during the Second World War, the fort was employed as a munitions depot and as housing for officers serving at the…
The Musée de la Résistance de Castellane (Castellane Museum of Resistance) presents the history of resistance in the Castellane region during the Second World War. Initially located inside the territory of Vichy France before being fully occupied by German authorities in 1942, Castellane saw a variety of evolving resistance efforts.
The museum contains thousands of documents and…
The Musée de la Résistance de Châteaubriant (Châteaubriant Museum of Resistance) is installed within a converted farmhouse located near the former entrance to Choisel Internment Camp (Centre de Séjour Surveillé de Choisel). Initially established in 1940 by the French Third Republic to serve as a prisoner of war camp, it…
The Musée de la Résistance de Limoges (Limoges Museum of Resistance) presents the history of occupation, resistance, and deportation in the city of Limoges and the surrounding region during the Second World War.
Collections contain over 800 wartime artifacts include weapons, uniforms, and military equipment, documents, and posters, and…
This museum illustrates the values of citizenship and solidarity brought by the Resistance during the Second World War. Dedicated to all those who sacrificed themselves to defend the fundamental values of the Republic, its vocation is to make the memory alive by offering a place of pedagogy and dissemination of information, especially for young audiences…
The Musée de la Résistance de Mussy-sur-Seine (Mussy-sur-Seine Resistance Museum) presents the history of resistance in the surrounding Aube départment during the Second World War.
The museum’s permanent exhibition explores the impacts of German occupation upon the region, and relates the beginnings and growth of local…
The Musée de la Résistance du Mont-Mouchet (Museum of Resistance at Mont-Mouchet) commemorates the activities of French Resistance groups in the Mont-Mouchet and surrounding Auvergne region under the German occupation of France during the Second World War. The museum contains documents, photographs, period objects, and historical displays which provide insight on the war in general and on the…
The Musée de la Résistance en Bretagne (Museum of Resistance in Brittany) in Saint-Marcel presents the history of occupation, resistance, and liberation in Brittany during the Second World War. The museum’s permanent exhibitions present daily civilian life under German occupation following the Battle of France, the formation of resistance and maquis groups in Brittany, the Battle…
The Musée de la Résistance en Combrailles (Musuem of Resistance in Combrailles) in Saint-Gervais-d'Auvergne presents the local history of resistance and deportation in the Combrailles region during the Second World War. A permanent exhibition is divided into thematic sections : The Rise of Fascism; The Drôle-de-Guèrre and the Battle of France, Resistance, Life Under Occupation,…
AERI (formerly Association for Studies on the Domestic Resistance) has been working for more than ten years on CD-ROMs (or DVD-ROMs) on the local Resistance. Since January 1st, 2012, it is within the Foundation of the Resistance that the AERI department continues its activities.
Thanks to this operation, it managed to: build a dynamic network of…
The Musée de la Résistance en Morvan (Museum of Resistance in Morvan) in Saint-Brisson presents the local history of occupation, resistance, and memory in the Morvan region during the Second World War. A permanent exhibition presents local life in wartime, German occupation and repression, the formation of local resistance and maquis groups, and liberation. …
The Museum was founded in 1971 at the instigation of Denise Lorach, a concentration camp survivor, and provides an in-depth and emotional portrayal of this dark period of history.
The origins and development of Nazism, the war and the Vichy regime, the concentration camps, the French Resistance movement and the Liberation are all covered using…
The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation (Museum of Resistance and Deportation) in Pau presents the local history of resistance and deportation in Pau and the surrounding region during the Second World War. The museum contains permanent exhibitions on everyday civilian life in wartime, local resistance activities, internment and deportation, and liberation.…
The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation (Museum of Resistance and Deportation) in Angoulême was opened in 1993 to record and commemorate the experiences of residents in the surrounding Charente départment during the Second World War.
Thematic displays present the wartime history of the region. These include the invasion of 1940; the demarcation of France which divided Charente…
The original museum, which opened in 1966 in the rue Jean Jacques Rousseau, was dedicated to local resistance networks and named the Musée de la Résistance Dauphinoise. The museum underwent significant renovations in the late 1980s and early 1990s and has been in its current premises in the rue Hébert since its reopening in 1994. The building originally…
The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de Besançon (Besançon Museum of Resistance and Deportation) is located within the Besançon Citadel, a Vauban fortification begun in 1668 and completed in 1711. German occupation of France during the Second World War saw the citadel employed as a detention camp for captured members of the French Resistance; approximately 100 were executed there by…
The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de Forges-les-Eaux (Forges-les-Eaux Museum of Resistance and Deportation) presents the history of resistance and deportation in the town and region during the Second World War.
Collections include military and civilian objects are assembled from both large private collections and individual donations and are presented in two major…
The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Ain (Ain Museum of Resistance and Deportation) in Nantua presents the local history of Second World War resistance and deportation in the Ain region. Close to the Swiss border, Ain witnessed significant wartime resistance activities.
The museum is located within a former prison in…
The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de l’Isère (Isère Museum of Resistance and Deportation) in Grenoble presents the history of resistance and deportation in Grenoble and the surrounding Isère départment during the Second World War. Following an introductory exhibition on the general origins of the Second World War and the broad course of the conflict across France, the…
Result resistant desire to convey to younger generations the history of the Resistance and Deportation of Picardy, a museum was opened in 1986 in Picardy.
The initiative for the creation of the Museum of the Resistance and Deportation of Picardy returns to DROMAS Etienne, head of group B (district of Laon) FFI group in which gather all the…
The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de Picardie (Museum of Resistance and Deportation in Picardie) in Tergnier presents the history of resistance and deportation in the region during the First and Second World Wars. The museum presents the region’s wartime experiences through three permanent exhibitions on the Second World War:
The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation du Cher (Cher Museum of Resistance and Deportation) records the history of resistance and deportation in the Cher départment during the Second World War. With the German occupation of France and the establishment of the Vichy Regime, the line of demarcation between the two zones spilt Cher in half: this posed challenges for the local population,…
The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation en Ardèche (Museum of Resistance and Deportation in Ardèche) presents the history of occupation, resistance, and deportation in the Ardèche départment during the Second World War.
The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation en Ardèche was conceived as a collaboration between…
The Musée de la Résistance Nationale (Museum of National Resistance) in Varennes-Vauzelles is a small permanent exhibit and records centre on occupation, resistance, and deportation in the region during the Second World War. The exhibit displays physical artifacts and documents from the period, and presents…
The Musée de la Résistance Nationale (Museum of National Resistance), based in Champigny-sur-Marne and including 18 other locations throughout metropolitan France, administers a vast collection of objects and artifacts relating to war and resistance in France before, during, and following the Second World War. The collection includes more than 5000 objects and hundreds of thousands of…
The Musée de la Résistance, de l'Internement et de la Déportation (Museum of Resistance, Internment, and Deportation) in Chamalières records the history of resistance, internment, and deportation in the region and in France from 1939 to 1945 as well as the broader history of the Second World War. The museum describes the period through three key themes: the Rise of Nazism; Resistance,…
The Musée de la Résistance, de la Déportation et de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (Museum of Resistance, Deportation, and the Second World War) in Frugières-le-Pin presents and commemorates the history of resistance and deportation in the community and the surrounding Auvergne region during the Second World War, from 1940 to 1944. Located within the territory of Vichy France…
The Musée de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (Museum of the Second World War) in Digne-les-Bains is a converted bomb shelter dug prior to the outbreak of the Second World War, under the supervision of the Union Nationale pour la Défense Aérienne et pour la Protection des Populations Civiles (Natioal Union for Air Defense and the Protection of Civilian Populations) or the Defense…
The Musée de L’Ordre de la Libération (Order of the Liberation Museum) in Paris is housed in the vast Musée de L’Armée (Army Musuem) located in Les Invalides. Inaugurated in 1970, it is dedicated to and commemorates L’Ordre de la Libération (The Order of Liberation) founded by General Charles de Gaulle in 1940 to recognise individuals who fought for French liberation…
The Musée Départemental de la Résistance et de la Déportation (Departmental Museum of Ressistance and Deportation) in Manneville-sur-Risle presents the history of resistance and deportation in the Manneville-sur-Risle commune and the surrounding Eure département during the Second World War. The museum’s collections include military and civilian objects as well as…
The Musée Départemental de la Résistance et de la Déportation (Departmental Museum of Resistance and Deportation) in Toulouse presents the local history of resistance and deportation in Toulouse and the Haute-Garonne region during the Second World War. The museum holds more than 10 000 individual objects and archival pieces which document local resistance, deportation,…
The Musée Départemental de la Résistance Haut-Savoyarde (Haut-Savoyarde Departmental Museum of Resistance) presents the history of resistance, deportation, and liberation in the region during the Second World War. This includes wartime civilian life in the department and the nearby city of Annecy as well as the activities of the Gilères Maquis, active on this region’s…
The Musée Départemental de la Résistance Henri Queuille (Henri Queuille Departemental Museum of Resistance) in Neuvic presents the local history of resistance and deportation in the Haut-Corrèze region of Corrèze during the Second World War. The museum contains displays on local life under occupation, resistance activities, and deportation, and houses departmental records…
The Musée Départmental de la Résistance et de la Déportation de Lorris (Lorris Departmental Museum of Resistance and Deportation) presents the history of resistance and deportation in the Loiret départment during the Second World War.
A permanent exhibition contains wartime artifacts – weapons, uniforms, and military equipment; civilian…
The museum began as the colonial exhibition of 1931, was renamed in 1935 the Musée de la France d’Outre-mer, then in 1960 the Musée des Arts africains et océaniens due to the Franco-Algerian War. In the 1990s, the museum would remove many overtly colonialist materials and stress their artistic and heritage value. The museum became a department of the Louvre…
The Musée du 5 Juin 1944 « Message Verlaine » (June 5, 1944 “Verlaine Message” Museum) in Tourcoing commemorates the “Verlaine Message”: the message broadcast by the BBC Radio program “Les Français Parlent Aux Français” to France at 9:15PM on June 5, 1944, which alerted the French Resistance to the imminent Allied invasion of Normandy. The message, which read “Blessent mon coeur d'…
The Musée du Débarquement (Normandy Landings Museum) in Arromanches-les-Bains commemorates the D-Day (French: Jour J) Landings of June 6, 1944, and the subsequent Normandy campaign. Inaugurated on June 5, 1954, it describes itself as the first museum constructed specifically to document the landings.
The museum is located on the coast, formerly part of Gold Breach, at the site where…
The Musée du Mur de l'Atlantique (Museum of the Atlantic Wall) is located within a former German piece of coastal artillery, the Todt Battery. Inaugurated in 1942, it was equipped with four pieces of 388mm artillery capable of firing at a distance of 42 km. It faced the southern coast of England and the Dover area, and served from 1942 to 1944 in defence of German vessels in the English…
The museum is jointly administered by the French Ministry of Culture and Communication and the Ministry of Higher Education and Research, and serves as both a museum and a center for research.The museum contains the collections of the now-closed Musée national des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie and the ethnographic department of the Musée de l'Homme, plus ten…
The Musée du Souvenir du Combattant (Museum of Combattants' Memory) in Chalon-sur-Saône is dedicated to the experiences, lives, and memory of French soldiers and combattants. In presenting this history, the museum notes, the goal is "the safeguarding of national heritage, and the preservation of national memory."
The museum contains a collection of weapons, clothing and uniforms,…
The Musée d’Histoire Jean Garcin (Jean Garcin History Museum) in Fontaine-de-Vaucluse presents the history of the town and region during the Second World War, including daily civilian life under the Vichy Regime and German occupation, local resistance activities, and works created by local poets, authors, and artists in reflection of their experiences. The museum is named…
The Musée le Grand Blockhaus (Museum of the Great Blockhouse) is housed within a former German fortified command post for the Atlantic Wall: the line of coastal fortifications from Norway to the Spanish border. Construction was begun in October 1942 and completed in February 1943; disguised as a French villa, the installation directed coastal defence and cannon fire from neighbouring Batz-sur-…
The Musée Mai–Juin 1940 (May-June 1940 Museum) in Margut is a small, one-room, private collection of chiefly military objects dating from the Battle of France in May and June 1940. These include military uniforms, weapons, ammunition, military equipment, documents, posters, photographs, flags, and other objects from the battlefield.
The Musée Mémorial de la Bataille de Normandie (Memorial Museum of the Battle of Normandy) presents in detail the military operations which took place during the Battle of Normandy, following the Normandy Landings, from June 7 to August 29, 1944. Displays present a day-by-day chronology of the invasion, and describe the liberation of Bayeux on June 7 followed by advances further inland. The…
The Musée Mémorial d’Omaha Beach (Omaha Beach Memorial Beach) commemorates and presents the history of Omaha Beach, one of five landing sectors for the Normandy Landings on D-Day, June 6, 1944. Omaha, which spanned an approximately eight-kilometre section of beach, was the landing site for more than 40 000 troops American troops who forced the establishment of a beachhead…
The Musée-Mémorial des Enfants du Vel d’Hiv (Children of Vel d’Hiv Memorial Museum) in Orléans is part of the Centre d’Etude et de Recherche sur les Camps d’Internement dans le Loiret (Centre for Study and Research on the Loiret Internment Camps), or CERCIL. It is museum and memorial to the history of three Second World War internment camps in the Loiret department – in Beaune-la-…
The Museo Audiovisivo della Resistenza (Audiovisual Museo of the Resistance) in the community of La Vagina, Fosdinovo, presents the history of local resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943-45 with an emphasis on personal narrative, community engagement, and live events. In addition to a permanent exhibit of written records, photographs, and physical…
The Museo Casa Galimberti (Galimberti House Museum) in Cuneo is the preserved home of Tancredi Achille Giuseppe Olimpio Galimberti, commonly known as Duccio Galimberti (1906-1944). An anti-fascist lawyer before the Second World War, Galimberti is recognised as a hero of the Italian Resistance and a key figure of the Piedmont Resistance for his wartime partisan activities…
The Museo Cervi (Cervi Museum) in Gattatico presents the history of local resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943-45, with an emphasis on rural anti-fascist and partisan movements and the experiences of the Cervi family. The seven sons of Alcide and Genoeffa Cervi – Gelindo, Antenore, Aldo, Ferdinando, Agostino, Ovidio, and Ettore – were active in…
In the town of Morata de Tajuña is located one of the few museums in Spain dedicated to the Spanish Civil War, the Museum of the Battle of Jarama. A time capsule in which you can see hundreds of personal objects, laissez-passer, ration cards, maps, photographs, flyers, helmets crossed by bullets, mortars, leftovers from food cans, lighters, guns, cannons, bottles, periodicals, coins…
The museum focuses on the historical event of the bombing of Guernika, and more broadly on the Spanish Civil War. It also hosts a Documentation Center collecting existing information worldwide regarding both the bombing of Gernika and the Spanish Civil War.
The Museo del Partigiano di Propata (Propata Partisan Museum) is a small exhibition which preserves the history of a local group of Italian partisans, the Divisione Cichero of the Brigata Jori, who resisted German and fascist occupation in the Trebbia Valley and the Liguria and Genoa region from 1943 to 1945. Six explanatory panels present the history of…
The Museo del Risorgimento e della Resistenza (Risorgimento and Resistance Museum) in Vicenza, part of the larger Musei Civici Vicenza (Vicenza Civic Museums) complex, presents the history of war and resistance in Vicenza; a series of permanent exhibitions cover a 150-year period, including Napoleon’s first campaign in Northern Italy in 1796, intense local fighting during…
The Museo del Risorgimiento e della Resistenza di Ferrara (Ferrara Museum of the Risorgimiento and Resistance) presents a history of war and resistance in Ferrara, emphasising three key topics and periods: the Risorgimiento, the wars of Italian unification; the First World War; and the Second World War, antifascism, and local partisan and resistance movements.…
The Museo della Battaglia del Senio (Battle of Senio Museum) in Alfosine presents the history of the local Battle of Senio, which occurred in April 1945 between advancing Allied and defending German forces on the Senio River. Following the collapse of the Gothic Line, German forces established defensive positions along the Senio River. Allied attacks on these positions began in the…
The Museo della Battaglia di Ortona (Battle of Ortona Museum) presents the history of the Battle of Ortona (December 20-28, 1943) between the German 1st Parachute Division and the Canadian 1st Infantry Division and 1st Canadian Armoured Brigade. Part of the Allied advance northwards, Ortona was fiercely defended and house-to-house fighting occurred. A Canadian victory after eight…
The Museo della Brigata Val di Vara (Val di Vara Brigade Museum) presents the history of the partisan Val di Vara Brigade, which resisted German and fascist occupation in the La Spezia region from 1943 to 1945. Part of the partisan Justice and Liberty Column (Colonna “Giustizia e Libertà”) and organized several different times, the unit was composed of local soldiers and…
The Museo e Centro di Documentazione della Deportazione e Resistenza ("Museum and Centre of Documentation of Deportation and Italian Resistance") is a museum in Prato, central Italy, dedicated to the history of Fascism’s occurrence and rise to power in Italy.
It records the political, racial, and religious persecution and deportation of people in…
The Museo della Fine della Guerra (End of the War Museum) in Dongo is located in the town near where, on April 27, 1945, Benito Mussolini was halted while attempting to escape Italian territory and was held by local partisans before being executed the following day. The museum is located in Dongo’s Palazzo Manzi, the town hall, where Mussolini and accompanying Italian…
The Museo della Guerra e della Linea Gotica (War and the Gothic Line Museum) in Castel del Rio displays local military and civilian experiences during the First and Second World Wars and in particular presents the history of the Gothic Line: the German line of fortifications established along the northern Apennine Mountains to oppose the Allied advance in 1944-45. The…
The Museo della Liberazione di Ancona (Ancona Liberation Museum) in Offagna presents the history of local resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943-45 in the form of period artifacts as well as a collection of more than 15 000 physical and digitized photographs. Originally a travelling photograph exhibit, a permanent museum for the collection was established in Offagna…
The Museo della Liberazione di Lucca (Musuem of the Libeation of Lucca) presents the history of the Second World War in Lucca, resistance to German and fascist occupation, and the Liberation of Lucca: it displays military weapons and equipment, uniforms, written and photographic records, and oral testimonies which record local experiences.
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The Museo della Lina Gotica Orientale (Museum of the Eastern Gothic Line) in Montescudo presents the history of fighting on the eastern Gothic Line, the German line of fortifications established along the northern Apennine Mountains to oppose the Allied advance in 1944-45. It is located inside the preserved remains of the Church of Trivari, which was employed as a fortification and…
The Museo della Memoria: Sicilia 1943 (Memorial Museum: Sicily 1943) in Modica presents the history of the Allied Landings in Sicily beginning July 10, 1943, and the course of the subsequent fighting in Sicily. The museum employs a large collection of physical artifacts – weapons and equipment, military uniforms, vehicles, etc. – in addition to period documents and…
The Museo della Repubblica di Montefiorino e della Resistenza Italiana (Museum of the Republic of Montefiorino and Italian Resistance) in Montefiorino presents the history of local resistance to German and fascist occupation in 1943-45, with an emphasis on the partisan Republic of Montefiorino which existed in 1944 before being repressed by German forces. …
The Museo della Resistenza (Resistance Museum) in Leca d’Albenga is a small permanent exhibit attached to the local National Association of Italian Partisans (A.N.P.I. / Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia) center which documents the activities and daily lives of Italian partisans who resisted German and fascist occupation in Albenga and the Savona region…
The Museo della Resistenza Agostino Piol (Agostino Piol Resitance Museum) is a small shelter-museum located in the community of Altopiano Pian delle Femene. Maintained by the Belluno Section of the Associazione Nazionale Partigiani d'Italia (A.N.P.I) and the Municipality of Limana, the museum contains an artifact and photography exhibit on the formation of partisan resistance in…
Over the centuries, the Alps have been a place of refuge and hospitality. During the second world war, a time of fierce racial and political persecution, the Valpelline valley was swept with a large number of people fleeing to the neutral territory of Switzerland.
The Valpelline documentation centre valorises and promotes the relations between…
The Museo della Resistenza di Bologna (Bologna Resistance Museum) presents the history of war and resistance in Bologna prior to and during the Second World War. Main exhibits include “Anti-Fascism Before the War,” “Bolognese Participation in the Spanish Civil War,” “City at War,” “Resistance in Bologna,” and “Resistance in Postwar History.”
The Museo della Resistenza di Boves (Boves Musuem of Resistance) contains a small permanent exhibition on partisan resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943 to 1945 in the town of Boves and the surrounding community. Objects on display include period clothing and uniforms, weapons, written records, and photographs that describe local experiences including the…
The Museo della Resistenza di Carpasio (Carpasio Resistance Museum) in Costa di Carpasio presents the history of local Italian partisans and their resistance to German and fascist occupation in the western Liguria region from 1943 to 1945. Housed within a stone house which originally served as a partisan command point for the area, the museum contains more than 300…
The Museo della Resistenza di Ca’Malanca (Ca’Malanca Resistance Museum) presents the local history of resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943-45. Displays include written documents, posters, and photographs which document occupation, resistance, and liberation, including records of the local 36 Brigata Garibaldi and the nearby Battle of Purocielo (…
The Museo della Resistenza di Valsaviore (Valsaviore Resistance Museum) presents the history of local resistance to German and fascist occupation in the Camonica Valley (Val Camonica) from 1943 to 1945. This notably includes the formation of the 54th Garibaldi Brigade in Valsaviore in October 1943, the group’s sabotage of a nearby hydroelectric station at Isola…
The Museo della Resistenza e Centro di Documentazione di Storia Contemporanea e della Resistenza (Museum of Resistance and Documentation Center of Contemporary History and of Resistance) in the town of Luserna San Giovanni is an exhibition on local resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943 to 1945 and a documentation center on local history during and…
The Museo della Resistenza e Centro di Documentazione “Emile Chanoux” (“Emile Chanoux” Resistance Museum and Documentation Center) presents the local history of resistance to German and fascist occupation in the surrounding communities of the Valsavarenche Valley, from 1943-1945.
The museum also commemorates Emile Chanoux (1906-1944), a…
The Museo della Resistenza e degli Undici Martiri (Museum of Resistance and the Eleven Martyrs) in Palestrina presents the history of wartime resistance in the community under German and fascist occupation from 1943-44. Palestrina was a significant point near the front lines as the Allied advance approached Rome and landings occurred at Anzio: the town suffered aerial…
The Museo della Resistenza e del Folklore Valsabbino di Forno d’Ono (Valsabbino Resistance and Folklore Museum in Forno d'Ono) documents the history of local resistance to German and fascist occupation in the Valle Sabbia from 1943 to 1945. Established in 1972, the museum displays weapons, photographs, and documents originating with local partisan groups including the…
The Museo della Resistenza e della Vita Sociale “Giovambattista Lazagna” (Giovambattista Lazagna Museum of Resistance and Social Life) in the town of Rocchetta Ligure presents the history of local resistance to German and fascist occupation in the Borbera Valley (Val Borbera) from 1943 to 1945.
The museum is located within the Spinola…
The Museo della Resistenza Goffredo Baldelli (Goffredo Baldelli Resistance Museum) in Falconara Marittima presents the history of local resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943-45 and the Liberation of Falconara in July 1945. The museum displays the weapons and equipment belonging to partisans active in the Apennine Mountains, and photographs documenting the…
The Museo della Resistenza Piacentina (Piacentina Resistance Musuem) presents the history of Italian resistance to German and Fascist occupation in the Province of Piacentina from 1943-45. Exhibits display period artifacts including weapons and uniforms employed by local partisans.
The museum is administered and operated by local…
The Museo Della Resistenza “Brigata Lys” (Lys Brigade Resistance Museum) in Perloz is a museum and documentation center on Italian resistance to German and fascist occupation in the Valle d’Aosta, from 1943 to 1945. The museum presents the history and activities of the Third Lys Brigade: a network of partisans formed in the village of Perloz following announcement of the…
The Museo della Resistenza “I Sentieri della Memoria” (“Paths of Memory”) is a permanent exhibit within the Cavalier Giuseppe Avena Museum complex in Chiusa di Pesio. Originally a documentation center for local records on resistance and liberation to German and fascist occupation from 1943 to 1945, a smaller “Paths of Memory” exhibit has expanded to become a multimedia…
The Museo della Risiera di San Sabba (San Sabba Rice Mill Museum) is a national monument and museum: a former rice mill and factory in Trieste, which German occupation authorities employed as a detention and concentration camp from 1943-45. Following the Italian-Allied Armistice and subsequent German occupation of Northern Italy in 1943, Trieste was absorbed into the …
The Museo della Seconde Guerra Mondiale del Fiume Po (Po River Second World War Museum) in Sermide e Felonica presents the wartime history and significance of Felonica and the Po River, an important strategic position during the Allied invasion of northern Italy in 1944 and 1945. The river formed part of the German defensive position, and the region witnessed aerial attacks leading…
The Museo Diffuso della Resistenza, della Deportazione, della Guerra, dei Diritti e della Libertà (Widespread Museum of Resistance, Deportation, War, Rights, and Freedom) in Turin presents themes of wartime resistance, deportation, rights, and freedom from the Second World War onwards in both a local and national context. The museum’s permanent exhibition, “Turin 1938 – 1948: From the Racial…
It is a musealised site and a historical museum that intends to fill a gap in the Portuguese museological fabric, by projecting the appreciation of the memory of the fight against the dictatorship onto the construction of an enlightened and responsible citizenship, and by taking on the struggle against the exonerating and, often, complicit silencing of the…
The Museo e Centro di Documentazione della Deportazione e Resistenza (Museum and Documentation Centre of Deportation and Resistance) in Prato presents the national and local history of resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943-45, and of internment and deportation by German and fascist authorities. The museum also commemorates the mass execution in Figline of…
The Museo Francesco Baracca (Francesco Baracca Museum) in Lugo presents the history of Lugo-native First World War fighter ace Francesco Baracca, as well as local experiences with the First World War. Baracca was born in Lugo on May 9, 1888, and entered the Military Academy of Modena in 1907. He received his pilot’s license and joined the Italian Airforce at the outbreak…
The Museo Memoriale della Libertà (Memorial Museum of Freedom) in Bologna presents artifacts from the city’s experiences during the Second World War. Exhibits include a collection of military and civilian vehicles and aircraft, a freight wagon used to transport Italian deportees to concentration camps, and the photographic and film collection of Bologna student Edo…
The Museo Nazionale dell'Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah (National Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah) presents the history of “the two thousand year-old Jewish presence in Italy.” Particular detail is given to the Italian Jewish experience in the years leading up to the Second World War, Italian persecution of Jews, and records of Italian Jews in the Shoah,…
The Museo Nazionale dell'Internamento (National Internment Museum) in Padova is a national museum presenting the history of Italian military, political, and racial internees and deportees in the German camps system from 1943-45. In particular, the museum commemorates the internment, daily life, and ultimate fate of Italian Military Internees: the approximately 800 000…
The Museo Storico Badogliano (Badogliano Historical Museum) in Grazzano Badoglio presents the life and historical activities of Marshal of Italy Pietro Badoglio (1871-1956). Badoglio entered the Italian Army in 1892 as a Lieutenant and served in Italian Eritrea and Libya; a Lieutenant Colonel when Italy entered the First World War, he advanced to Vice Chief-of-Staff.…
The Museo Storico Casa dell’Eccidio di Tavolicci (Tavolicci Casa dell’Eccidio Historical Museum) commemorates the location of a mass execution in which 64 civilians were killed by members of the IV German-Italian Police Battalion on July 22, 1944. That night, the town’s inhabitants were rounded up and locked in the Casa dell’Eccidio, then machine-gunned as the…
The Museo Storico della Liberazione di Roma (Museum of the Liberation of Rome) presents the history of the German invasion and occupation of Rome in September 1943 following the Italian-Allied Armistice, the impacts on the city’s population, subsequent resistance, and the Liberation of Rome in June 1944.
The museum is located within the…
The Museo Storico della Linea Gotica (Gothic Line Museum) in Casinina is a museum and documentation center which presents the history of the German line of fortifications along the northern Apennine Mountains known as the Gothic Line, and the Allied attacks and advances on these positions in 1944 and 1945 including the nearby Battle of Rimini in September 1944. The museum is…
The Museo Storico della Resistenza di Sant’Anna di Stazzema (Sant’Anna di Stazzema Historical Museum of Resistance) presents documents, photos, and physical artifacts documenting local resistance to German and fascist occupation in 1943-45.
The museum is a permanent physical and multimedia exhibit within Sant’Anna di Stazzema’s National Peace…
The Museo Storico della Resistenza di Villadossola (Villadossola Historical Museum of Resistance) presents documentation on resistance to German and fascist occupation in the Ossola Valley (Val d’Ossola) from 1943 to 1945. Several hundred written records and photographs document partisan activity in the region, including the establishment and subsequent…
The Sale della Resistenza (Halls of the Resiatance) in the Museo Storico di Lecco (Lecco Historical Museum) is one exhibition within the municipal civic and historical museum of Lecco which presents the region’s Second World War experience and local resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943-45. The exhibition includes documents and letters, photographs,…
The Museo Storico Eccidio di San Terenzo Bardine (San Terenzo Bardine Massacre Historical Museum) commemorates the massacre of 159 local civilians by German forces from August 17-19, 1944. On August 17, forces from the 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS were attacked by Italian partisans near the village of Bardine; later that day, German troops under SS…
The Museo Valsusino della Resistenza (Susa Valley Museum of Resistance) in the town of Condove presents the local history of resistance to German and fascist occupation in the Susa Valley (Val di Susa) from 1943 to 1945. Its exhibits present period weapons, clothing and uniforms, written records, photographs, and recorded testimonies; these document the formation of local…
The Museo-Rifigio della Resistenza Bergamasca (Bergamo Resistance Museum) at Malga Lunga on the Monte di Sovere is a former stronghold of local resistance to German and fascist occupation from 1943 to 1945, and contains a permanent museum exhibit on the resistance. A defensible and elevated position, Malga Lunga was occupied by the approximately 15-strong 13 Martiri…
Housed in the Fortress of Peniche, the former political prison of the pre-revolutionary "Estado Novo" (New State), the Peniche Museum has a section dedicated to the anti-fascist resistance movement.
The Visit Room, located close to the reception and the Noble Hall of the Fortress, is a structure attached to the political prison, built in 1967 and…
The Museum and Library of the Resistance in Sansepolcro was founded to commemorate the values of the Resistance from a historical and cultural perspective as well as to support research and protect documents about anti-fascism, concentration camps and political imprisonment by the regime.
The museum remembers the tragic passage of the front…
The Campo Fossoli Foundation was established in January 1996 by the Municipality of Carpi and the ASSOCIATION OF FRIENDS OF THE FIELD OF FOSSOLI AND THE MONUMENT MUSEUM TO THE DEPORTED. The objectives of the non-profit foundation are to spread the historical memory through the conservation, recovery and enhancement of the former concentration camp of Fossoli…
The Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide 1992 – 1995 was founded in July 2016 as an initiative to sustain the memory of all the victims of the war that lasted from 1992- 1995. The founders of the museum themselves are victims who survived the war. Together with young people they have made the museum a reality and keep it working. The museum exhibit contains a variety of photos and…
The Museum of Family History is a virtual one, and as such is a museum that exists only on the Internet. It has presented since its creation fourteen years ago, many exhibitions, ranging from short historical accounts of Jewish European history during the reign of the Russian czars to more elaborate presentations that feature a multitude of photographs, e.g…
Thousands of admirers of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini visit his tiny home town every year. Now, the town's center-leftist mayor Giorgio Frassineti wants to open a museum of fascism on the main square, not as an homage to their cause but as a way to contain it. Frassineti wants to overhaul the town's crumbling 1937 House of Fascism, an imposing marble-…
Established in 1992 as a reminder of the unforgivable crime against Serbs, Jews and Roma people which happened during the Second World War. This museum collects data about concentration camps, forced displacement, the devastation of cultural and historical monuments for the educational and historical purposes. Here you can see collections such as “They were…
The Museum of Italian Judaism and the Shoah (MEIS) (Italian: Museo Nazionale dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah) is a public history museum in Ferrara, Italy. It opened in 2017, and traces the history of the Jewish people in Italy starting from the Roman empire through the Holocaust of the 20th century. Chartered by the Italian government in 2003, MEIS…
The museum brings together the largest collections relating to the French resistance during the Second World War. The Museum of National Resistance in Champigny-sur-Marne shows the history of the French Resistance from its inception up to the Liberation. It enables visitors to gain better understanding of the origins of the French Resistance, its rise to…
The Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights (Lithuanian: Okupacijų ir laisvės kovų muziejus), previously the Museum of Genocide Victims (Lithuanian: …
The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia preserves the national memory, memorial and the long term historical story of the fate of the Latvian state, people and land while under the control of two occupying totalitarian powers from 1940-1991. This is the story of the treachery of the USSR and Nazi Germany against the sovereign state of Latvia, and the three…
This 2 storey museum retraces the dark years of the Second World War with various objects and documents such as arms and uniforms, aviation material, posters. There is a video projection room.
The Museum, owned by the Municipality of Bologna, is located in the complex of the old Monastery of "S.Mattia". It houses several materials (documents, photographs, posters, multimedia products), relating to antifascism and Resistance in the City of Bologna as well as in Italy.
The Museum is managed by the Institute for History and Memories of '…
The museum is dedicated to the Warsaw Uprising of 1944. It sponsors research into the history of the uprising, and the history and possessions of the Polish Underground State. It collects and maintains hundreds of artifacts — ranging from weapons used by the insurgents to love letters — to present a full picture of the people involved. The museum's stated…
An exhibition at the Belgrade Cultural Center's Podrum Gallery that uses X-rays, medical reports, and personal testimonies to document the role of violence in Serbian society. The exhibition is designed to explicitly inform the general public about the problem of violence in society today. "Museum of Violence" focuses on acts of violence motivated by…
The museum explains what happened during the 1992-1995 war, with all its brutality - genocide,concentration camps,mass graves,crimes against children. It displays personal belongings and statements of victims, personal items exhumed from mass graves, photos, testimonies, court evidences, documentaries, etc.
The Museum was opened in 2003 inside a 18th century complex. The same building is also home to the National Film Archives of the Italian Resistance, the Piedmont Institute for History of the Italian Resistance and Contemporary Society and the Primo Levi International Study Center. The permanent display - "Turin 1938 – 1948. From the Racial Laws to the…
Kamp Amersfoort (Camp Amersfoort) started off as a Dutch military barrack camp named Barakkenkamp Appelweg (Barrack Camp Appel road) and initially consisted of six barracks in a square formation. In 1939, the camp started to house Dutch soldiers that were mobilized to protect the Grebbelinie (Grebbe Line), a…
The museum traces the history of the Belgian resistance and German occupation of Belgium during World War II. The museum seeks to raise awareness of the role of the Belgian resistance during both World Wars and preserves document and artifacts relating to the period. The museum also touches on the German occupation, Holocaust and deportations of prisoners of…
At the end of July 1940, the German police force, which was a part of the German SS, installed in Belgium. The following month the decision was made to install an Auffanglager in Breendonk to take in the prisoners of the police force. On September 20, 1940 the first prisoners were brought to the Fort. It wasn’t until after January 1941 that the number of prisoners would exceed 100.…
The Troubles collection consists mainly of political posters and ephemera, many of which date from the early to mid-1970s. There are also many examples of prison-made objects, badges and artworks. Inevitably the interpretation of these events is contested in terms of significance, meaning and responsibility. While we have a shared past we do not have a…
The National Museum of Gitega is the national museum of Burundi. It is located in Gitega and was founded under Belgian colonial rule in 1955. The museum is…
From the late 1940s, those involved in the resistance and political deportees began to plan a national resistance museum in order to preserve the memory of Luxembourg's victims of the Nazi occupation. A committee made up of the City of Esch-sur-Alzette, unions and representatives of resistance movements under the presidency of Ed Barbel, undertook a fund-…
The National Nigerian War Museum in Umuahia showcases the military history of Nigeria with relics form the Biafra-Nigerian civil war (1967-1970). The United Kingdom and the Soviet Union were the main supporters of the Nigerian government in Lagos, while France, Israel and some other countries supported Biafra. France and Israel provided weapons to both…
From 1975 to 2014, its collection mainly focused on World War I and World War II. It was refurbished in 2015, and its collections now include exhibits ranging from the Bronze Age to 2004.
The museum collection focuses on Norwegian resistance during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1945. The museum displays equipment, photos and documents from the war years. The Museum was opened to the public in May 1970 by HRH Crown Prince Harald of Norway in celebration of the 25th anniversary of Norwegian liberation.
Norway…
The Northern Transylvania Holocaust Memorial Museum is located in Șimleu Silvaniei, Romania and was opened September 11, 2005. The museum is operated and maintained by the Jewish Architectural Heritage Foundation of New York and Asociata Memoralia Hebraica Nuşfalău - a Romanian NGO, with the support of the Claims Conference, Elie Wiesel National Institute…
The NS-Documentation Center of the City of Cologne is probably the first institution worldwide to offer a 360-degree tour of the Memorial and permanent exhibition, both supported by an audio guide in eight languages. In addition, this ambitious tour offers far more than a simple view into the rooms. Every media station of the exhibition offers a wide range…
The Nusantara Museum in Delft Netherlands focuses on the history and cultures of Indonesia. The museum examines the 400 year old historical relationship between the Netherlands and Indonesia. In 2013, the Museum Nusantara closed its doors due to budget cuts.
War belongs in the museum. That is the motto of the War Museum Overloon. The War Museum Overloon presents the history of the Second World War. Here you see how it can be that in five years’ time more than fifty million people lost their lives, but also how the oppressed people resourcefully coped with restrictions and shortages. There is attention to the…
The Panssarimuseo is a military museum located 110 kilometres north of Helsinki in Parola, near Hämeenlinna, Finland, a few kilometres from the Finnish Army Armoured Brigade training unit. It displays various tanks, armoured vehicles and anti-tank guns used by the Finnish Defence Forces throughout their history, including their latest Leopard 2A4 tank. A…
The Partisan Cemetery of Chiusa di Pesio commemorates the resting place of both named and anonymous partisans who died in the fight for liberation from German and fascist occupation in the Pesio Valley from 1943 to 1945.
Construction began on the cemetery and memorial in the summer of 1945 drawing on memorial plans designed by local…
The permanent exhibition is on the Atlantic commerce and especially the slave trade developed since the creation of the port of Bordeaux, one of the main slave ports of France. Throughout the visit, written comments help visitors understand the context and history of the objects and tools on display.
Plokštinė missile base (Lithuanian: Plokštinės raketų bazė) was an underground base of the Soviet Union. It was built near Plokščiai village, 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) north of …
The core exhibition features a multimedia exhibition about the Jewish community that flourished in Poland for a thousand years up to the World War II Holocaust.
In order to crush partisan resistance in Ljubljana, Fascist Italy carried out raids beginning in February 1942 and the majority of arrested civilians were sent to Rab (or Arbe in Italian), the largest concentration camp in Italian-occupied territory. Established in July 1942, the camp held 10,000-15,000 people until it was disbanded in September 1943. Rab was notorious for having the worst…
The company was founded by Clement Griscom, who led it from its founding until the International Mercantile Marine Co. took it over in 1902. Red Star Line survived IMM's financial crisis in 1915. In the 1930s Red Star Line was part of …
McIntosh Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition by Rehab Nazzal. The show is based on Nazzal’s year-long research in the occupied West Bank and features an array of works that engage gallery-goers through sight, hearing and smell. In this multi-media exhibition, social commentary and critique intersect with expressive response to the severe realities in…
Norway’s Resistance Museum aims to give an authentic presentation of the German occupation during World War II. From prelude, through invasion and resistance, to liberation and peace, the museum gives a thorough view of important events and themes using sound, pictures, texts, authentic objects and lifelike models.…
The Riga Ghetto was a small area in Maskavas Forštate, a neighbourhood of Riga, Latvia, designated by the Nazis where Jews from Latvia, and later from Germany, were forced to live during World War II. On October 25, 1941, the…
The Sala Storica della Resistenza di Domodossola (Domodossola Historical Hall of Resistance) presents the history of and commemorates resistance to German and fascist occupation in the Ossola Valley (Val d’Ossola) from 1943 to 1945. Significance is given to presenting the establishment and subsequent destruction of the Free Republic of Ossola (1944): it was…
In 1914 the little village of Hatzenport, a winegrowing community on the borders of the Mosel river in the West of Germany, had about 850 inhabitants. When war broke out most of the men voluntarily joined the army. This exhibition pays tribute to Max Kranz and other men from Hatzenport.
The Scottish National War Memorial is located in Edinburgh Castle and commemorates Scottish soldiers, and those serving with Scottish regiments, who died in the two world wars and more recent conflicts.
The Sereď Holocaust Museum was created on the site of the former labour and concentration camp in Sereď, which represents an authentic location that is linked to the tragic era of the solution of the Jewish question in Slovakia during World War II. The museum exhibits period documents, photographs, and items related to the persecution of Jews in Slovakia.…
This exhibition takes a closer look at different aspects of the process of reintegration by highlighting some international examples, based on newspaper articles, illustrated with photographs and stories from various sources.
The memorial is of metal shoes on the edge of the Danube. The Jews were ordered to take off their shoes, and were shot at the edge of the water so that their bodies fell into the river and were carried away. It represents their shoes left behind on the bank. The Fascist Arrow Cross militiamen carried out the shootings.…
The Site de Morrette in La Balme-de-Thuy contains three significant historical sites which present occupation, resistance, deportation, and liberation in the Haute-Savoie region during the Second World War: the Musée Départementale de la Résistance Haute-Savoyarde, the Mémorial Départementale de la Déportation, and the Nécropole Nationale de Gilères.
…At the approach of World War II, which everyone felt soon upon them, to shelter the civil population and prevent mass exodus, the Town Hall decided to fortify the underground tunnels. It is inside the largest tunnel (10 meters underground and 250 meters long, from the Basilica through to the public garden) in which the Somme 1916 Museum is located.
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The Historical and Cultural Complex “Stalin line” is 26 km from the Minsk and 6 km from Zaslavl town. The "Stalin line” was founded on 60th anniversary of soviet people Victory in the Great Patriotic war (WWII) and it was opened on the 30th of June 2005 in memory of soldiers who defended Minsk in 1941. The main museum exposition is related to first days of the Great Patriotic war. “Stalin line…
The Stanze della Memoria: Istituto Storico della Resistenza Senese (Historical Institute of Sienese Resistance: Hall of Memory) presents the history of antifascism and resistance from the first decades of the 20th century to the Liberation of Siena and the end of the Second World War. Displays include written and photographic documentation as well as physical artifacts of…
The Surinaams Museum is located inside Fort Zeelandia, the site where British and Dutch colonists first arrived in Suriname. The site was established as a museum in 1947 and the permanent exhibit spaces include reconstructions of "an old apothecary shop, a cobbler shop and a prison cell in its original state." The museum displays a range of ethnographic and…
The House of Terror Museum - the only one of its kind - is a monument to the memory of those held captive, tortured and killed in this building. The Museum, while presenting the horrors in a tangible way, also intends to make people understand that the sacrifice for freedom was not in vain. Ultimately, the fight against the two cruellest systems of the 20th…
The Anne Frank House (Dutch: Anne Frank Huis) is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank. The building is located on a canal called the Prinsengracht, close to the Westerkerk, in central Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
During World War II, Anne Frank hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four…
The War Museum was established by the Hellenic State in 1964 in order to honor all those who fought for the country's freedom. The relevant study was undertaken by a team of distinguished scientists, headed by Professor Thoukidides Valentis of the National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A). On July 18, 1975, the President of the Hellenic Republic H.E…
The Atlantic Wall (German: Atlantikwall) was an extensive system of coastal defence and fortifications built by Nazi Germany between 1942 and 1944, along the coast of continental Europe and Scandinavia as a defence against an anticipated Allied invasion of Nazi-occupied Europe from the United Kingdom, during World War II. The museum is a military museum near…
Anthropologist Julia Binter curated the exhibition "The Blind Spot" (August 5-November 19), which aims to reflect on the colonial past of the museum and the city of Bremen, a hub of international trade during the 18th and 19th centuries - the peak of European colonialism. The exhibit also seeks to rethink pressing current issues such as globalization,…
The museum was supposed to house permanent and special exhibitions on Libya’s unique history, telling the story of campaigns and conflicts that have shaped the country from colonial power to independent state. Permanent exhibitions would have included galleries documenting the country’s historic evolution with large-scale exhibits (lower ground floor), the…
This museum explores Nazi persecution of Gypsies during Holocaust. It contains the only exhibition about the Sinti and the Roma and the Holocaust in the world. The Nazi genocide of the Roma and Sinti is less well-known than the Holocaust, in part because the Roma and Sinti were more marginalized than Jews before the Nazis came to power because of greater…
The museum was formed in 1963 by a group of individuals that were actually part of the resistance movement in Austria during the time of the Third Reich. The colleagues of these folks were part of the two thousand seven hundred individuals that were executed by the German Gestapo during the war. In a secondary way, the location also covers the efforts of the…
The Documentation Centre on the Bombing of Gernika, part of the Gernika Peace Museum Foundation, was created following an initiative by the Gernika-Lumo Town Hall in 1997, which set out to draw up an inventory of all written, graphic and audiovisual material available worldwide (in libraries, archives, film libraries...) in relation to the bombing of Gernika…
World War I was a complex and ambiguous event. The time has come to overcome traditional narratives and categories of nations, epic pictures of war, debates about war guilt and rivalries between a History from "above" and one from “below”. In this virtual exhibition, we would like to invite you to explore World War I from different perspectives with all its…
The German Resistance Memorial Center is a site of remembrance, political studies, active learning, documentation, and research. An extensive permanent exhibition, a series of temporary special exhibitions, events, and a range of publications document and illustrate resistance to National Socialism. The center's goal is to show how individual persons and…
Housed in a newly redesigned building since 2015, the Gulag History Museum is Moscow’s main exhibition space and educational center devoted to the Soviet Union’s sprawling network of forced labor camps. From the Great Terror (1937-38) to the birth and development of the Gulag system to the difficult reintegration of prisoners in the post-Stalin era, the…
The Günter Litfin Memorial is part of the Berlin Wall Foundation. The purpose of the foundation is to document and convey the history of the Berlin Wall and the mass migration from the German Democratic Republic as a part and contributory factor of the German division and the East–West conflict in the 20th century. It also aims to preserve historical sites…
The Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Centre intends to prepare guided tours on a scientific basis that are better tailored to each target group, to extend what is already on offer with further programs such as seminars and knowledge archives and to thematize – besides Judaism and the Holocaust – tolerance and interconnection between people. A permanent…
Just across the river from the Kremlin stands one of Moscow’s largest apartment complexes with a dark past. Built between 1928-1931 to accommodate the Soviet elite, it housed hundreds of victims of Stalin’s Great Terror whose tragic fate was immortalized in Yuri Trifonov’s novel “The House on the Embankment.” The author himself lived in the building as a…
The In Flanders Fields Museum presents the story of the First World War in the West Flanders front region. It is located in the renovated Cloth Halls of Ypres, an important symbol of wartime hardship and later recovery. The completely new permanent exhibition (opening 11 June 2012) tells the story of the invasion of Belgium and the first months of the…
The museum in Amsterdam dedicated to Jewish history, culture and religion, in the Netherlands and worldwide. It is the only museum in the Netherlands dedicated to Jewish history. The Joods Historisch Museum opened its doors on 24 February 1932 and was initially housed at the Waag (Weighing House) on Nieuwmarkt square. Following the Nazi occupation of the…
This exhibition presents stories of Skelsmergh's First World War dead.
The Musée de l'Appel de la liberté, also called the "Museum of the Resistance", is an exceptional display of the period 1939-1945. The very judicious choice of objects and the ingenuity of their presentation make it an educational museum. Posters, a classroom under the sway of Pétain's paternalistic ideology, a documentary about the Resistance, one section,…
The museum was the home and studio of well-known Soviet sculptor Zair Azgur. The “Zair Azgur Memorial Studio” is a unique place as it is the only monographic museum in Belarus founded on the basis of the workshop of the academy of arts and Azgur’s private studio. The building was built for this purpose in 1984 and in 1996, after the death of the sculptor, became the museum. This workshop was…
This site has been realised to gather, share, and comment on material and resources related to British colonialism.
The aim is simply to help those interested learn more about true nature of British colonial rule worldwide.
Although currently only virtual, it hopes for a physical space one day and still call it a museum, because we…
The Museum of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide 1992–1995 holds a rich collection of items and makes use of a multidisciplinary approach in helping visitors research and become more familiar with events that took place during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina from 1992 to 1995. The museum’s permanent exhibit is divided into 12 thematic sections and the…
The Museum of Cursed Soldiers and Political Prisoners of the Polish People’s Republic is designed as a place of remembrance that aims at transcending any divisions. The architects agreed that out of respect for the authentic substance of this place, it requires subtle accenting of the old and the new architecture.
For this reason, preservation of…
The main signature project of the Bloody Sunday Trust remains the Museum of Free Derry. The Museum of Free Derry opened in 2007 in order to tell the story of what happened in the city during the period 1968 – 1972, popularly known as ‘Free Derry’, and including the civil rights era, Battle of the Bogside, Internment, Bloody Sunday and Operation Motorman.…
The Museum of Genocide Victims was established by the Order dated October 14, 1992 of the Minister of Culture and Education of the Republic of Lithuania and the President of the Union of Political Prisoners and Deportees. It is housed in the same building where from the second half of 1940 even until August 1991 the Soviet security services, best known in…
This is the first Polish World War II museum, located near the place of the first clash between Polish and German forces during the Invasion of Poland. Its construction took four-and-a-half years and cost over EUR 100 million (PLN 426 million). The Museum of the Second World War in Gdańsk boasts some 2,500 exhibits as well as 250 multimedia stations, which…
Formerly known as the Memorial in Commemoration of Famines' Victims in Ukraine, the museum is Ukraine's national museum and a world-class centre devoted to the victims of the Holodomor of 1932-1933, a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine in 1932 and 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The museum was opened on the day of the 75th anniversary of the…
The Nazi Forced Labour Documentation Centre, a department of the Topography of Terror Foundation, is continually being developed as an educational site with an exhibitions and archive. The last well-preserved former Nazi forced labor camp is located in Schöneweide. In the Second World War it served as one of the more than 3000 collective accommodations…
This online exhibit presents the photographs taken in the aftermath of the Easter Rising 1916 by Thomas Johnson Westropp, housed in the Library of Trinity College Dublin.
The Tränenpalast (English: "Palace of Tears") is a former border crossing point between East and West Berlin, at Berlin Friedrichstraße station, which was in operation between 1962 and 1989. It is now a museum with exhibitions about Berlin during the Cold War period and about the process of German reunification.
In 2008 the Tränenpalast became a…
Vast war memorial sculpted by Vuchetych & a museum displaying exhibits about WWII in the Ukraine.
A one-room museum in the old Bryggen Hanseatic quarter in the heart of Bergen, Norway. Its main exhibit is the room itself that houses the museum – for this reason it is also known under the epithet "Theta Room" (rather than "museum"). It was the secret HQ of a local branch of the Norwegian Resistance during the German occupation in WWII. It was in fact so…
One of the biggest gun positions in the Atlantic Wall during World War II was meant to be placed at Blåvand. It was never finished, though, as the war came to an end before the construction was complete. Through two decades this ruined bunker was a popular museum but in 2017 it was replaced by a new museum containing four large sections with separate…
J.A. Topf and Sons (German: J.A. Topf & Söhne) was an engineering company, founded in 1878 in Erfurt, Germany by Johannes Andreas Topf (1816–1891). Originally, it made heating systems and brewing and malting equipment. Later, the company diversified into silos, chimneys, incinerators for burning municipal waste, and crematoria. During World War I it made…
Topografia della Memoria: Museo Diffuso dell’Area di Confine (Topography of Memory: Widespread Museum of the Borderland) is a series of open-air, cross-border installations and guided tours in the neighbouring towns of Gorizia (Italy) and Nova Gorica (Slovenia). The project covers a historical period from the end of the First World War (1918) to end of the Second World…
The permanent exhibition “Topography of Terror: Gestapo, SS and Reich Security Main Office on Wilhelm- and Prinz-Albrecht-Straße” focuses on the central institutions of the SS and police during the “Third Reich” and the crimes that they committed throughout Europe. With the help of mostly photographic material on a “ribbon of panels” and documents (…
After the independence of Indonesia, the Colonial Institute in Amsterdam restyled itself the Indies Museum, then in 1950 became the Royal Tropic Institute with the museum proper renamed the Tropical Museum. The museum tried to downplay its colonial origin and mission, taking now as its principal theme international cooperation, development aid and daily life…
This exhibition contains photos, letters and other memorabilia related to the First World War.
With immersive scenography and numerous multimedia devices, this committed exhibition confronts the public with their own representations. At the crossroads of anthropology, biology, economics, sociology and history, and based on the latest discoveries, it examines the phenomena of racialisation and demonstrates that racism is a social construct.…
This Museum is described as "a Museum of positive emotions and memories." Offering an idealized perspective of the Soviet period, it invites "everyone whose childhood has passed in the yard; whom mother screamed home from the window; who drank soda and a milkshake from a faceted glass; who ate the most delicious ice cream at 12 cents; whom the pioneers received in October; who wrote letters on…
The show "Veiled, Unveiled! The Headscarf" at Vienna's Weltmuseum (World Museum) puts headscarf diversity on display. "The goal of the exhibition is to reveal the transformations that the headscarf has undergone and that have been forgotten, repressed or those that are simply unknown," Steinmann said. The exhibition doesn't present the headscarf as a…
The Site of Witness and Memory is the only memorial which commemorates the victims of the communist regime from Shkodra. Being one of the main centers of Communist repression in Albania, the city where an Atheist Museum with anti-religious propaganda was built after the Cultural Revolution of 1967, this museum tells the story of people who suffered for their beliefs and moral integrity.
Organized by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Violence in War and Peace deals with images of victims—soldiers and civilians alike—wrenched by the barbarity and chaos of catastrophic war and different scenes of violence, such as riots, terrorist acts, or nonviolent demonstrations that are violently repressed.
This exhibition deals…
The Virtual Museum of Soviet Repression in Belarus (Belarusian: Віртуальны музей савецкіх рэпрэсій у Беларусі) is a non-commercial project of oral history from historians and other scientists from Belarus. Created as a virtual museum, it covers Soviet repression in Belarus.
In 2007, the Belarusian Christian Democracy party launched a campaign…
Visions of War examines how serving soldiers and official war artists depicted conflict on the Western Front during World War One in paintings, drawings, watercolours and sculpture. It touches upon the lives of the artists and soldiers who made these works and explores their artistic approaches.
The National Museum's new exhibition about Denmark's colonial history in the West Indies, India, West Africa and Greenland is not about trade, commodities and resources but about people. We meet the West Indian rebel Queen Mary, the Gold Coast slave trader Ludvig Rømer, the Greenlandic prophet Habakuk, the enslaved West Indian Franciscus, and many more.…
The Vytautas the Great War Museum (Lithuanian: Vytauto Didžiojo karo muziejus) is a museum in Kaunas, Lithuania. It was built in …
The museum presents the experiences of children who lived through the war in Bosnia, told through objects, video testimonies, and excerpts from oral histories. The 2018 Council of Europe Museum Prize – one of the most prestigious awards in the museum industry – has been awarded to the War Childhood Museum as part of the European Museum of the Year Awards.…
Rising from the crowd-sourced book War Childhood and championing the principles and practices of social entrepreneurship, the independent, youth-led War Childhood Museum has garnered recognition as the world’s only museum focused exclusively on childhoods that have been affected by war.
Through its unique platform, the WCM is able to tackle…
Built in 1928 as both a police station and jail, this building, which now houses one the city’s best museums, was under the Nazis one of the most notorious places of torture in the Third Reich. Now all five floors have been transformed into an exhibition using the original cells and charting the history of the little known about opposition to Hitler's regime…
This exhibition commemorated the centenary of the momentous battle and examined the huge medical and human impact of wounding during and beyond the First World War.
The Yekatit 12 is a monument in Addis Ababa commemorating victims of Italian reprisals following an attempt to kill the Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, marchese di Neghelli, …
For nearly 250 years Denmark was a colonial power in the West Indies, now known as the US Virgin Islands. 2017 marks the centenary of the sale of the West Indies to the United States and a number of museums in and around Copenhagen have used this occasion to shed light on Denmark’s colonial past. Delve into the enlightening and diverse exhibitions. At The…
The purpose of this website is to offer a guide to both general public and researchers of the museums of European political and violence, what content they offer and the topics that are not sufficiently represented. This website wants to help us to rethink the realities, shortcomings and possibilities of Public History in Europe.
This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
