Museum of National Resistance in Champigny-sur-Marne

The museum brings together the largest collections relating to the French resistance during the Second World War. The Museum of National Resistance in Champigny-sur-Marne shows the history of the French Resistance from its inception up to the Liberation. It enables visitors to gain better understanding of the origins of the French Resistance, its rise to power, its gradual unification and its contribution to the Liberation of the French nation and to the definition of post-war France. The museum is housed in a special 19th century hotel on the banks of the Marne, in a park named after Vercors, the pseudonym of the founder of the secret Midnight Press. This is where the largest collections relating to the French resistance during the Second World War can be found: archives, photographs, water colours and objects. These collections are the result of more than 2000 donations and private and public gifts since 1965. They bear witness to French social history from 1929 to 1947 and represent a unique collection on domestic French Resistance, through the number and variety of items contained in them. They set the scene for thousands of French, immigrant, foreign, anonymous or well-known resistance fighters and concentration camp deportees.