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 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.
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, resistance, deportation, and liberation, donated by former members of local resistance movements, internees, and deportees.
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 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, internment and deportation, the Vichy Regime and the Milice, and liberation.
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 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.
