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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 Channel and as an important part of the Atlantic Wall, the German line of coastal fortifications from Norway to the Spanish border.

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 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 and May 1917, and the German Spring Offensive of 1918. Adjacent to the memorial are the graves of over 2650 British and Commonwealth soldiers, including 10 unidentified.

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 memory and historical education for local residents. 

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 actions of the 7ième Compagnie des Maquis d'Auvergne. 

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.

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 displayed in wartime situations. Demonstrating the international scope of the conflict, the museum aims to represent the realities of warfare faced by soldiers of different nations.     

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 faced or experienced deportation.

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.