Musée de la Résistance Azuréenne

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 museum’s research and documentation centre includes a library of more than 5000 volumes in nine languages, and audiovisual library of more than 850 documents, and an archives more than 8000 separate documents and 8500 photographs. The museum and archives is administered by the Association Azuréenne des Amis du Musée de la Résistance Nationale (Azur Friends of the National Resistance Museum Association), and was inaugurated on March 12, 1988.