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 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 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”, and “Build”.
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 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 and reconstructed weapons and rooms from the original blockhouse.
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.
