Museum

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 during the Second World War.

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 first President of the National Council of Resistance who died in German captivity following torture by Lyn Gestapo Chief Klaus Barbie.

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 command post and fire-control point for its section of fortifications; constructed by Organisation Todt and located on the heights of the beach, it was captured on D-Day.

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.

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 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 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 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 began on converting the property into a municipal museum. The MuSa was inaugurated and opened to the public in 2015.