Musée Mémorial d’Omaha Beach

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 for the invasion of Europe alongside the four other beaches at Utah, Juno, Gold, and Sword. With upwards of 2000 casualties suffered on the first day, the beach was the deadliest of all landings on D-Day.

The museum, located just behind the beach, presents the landings at Omaha through extensive photographic records and physical artifacts including German and American military weapons, equipment, and uniforms, military vehicles and tanks, and a panoramic reconstruction of the beach.

The Normandy American Military Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, three kilometres from the museum, contains the remains of more than 9000 soldiers lost in the landings at Omaha and the subsequent Battle of Normandy.