The La Couple: Centre d’Histoire et Planétarium 3D (‘La Coupole’ Historic Centre and 3D Planetarium) site is a museum housed within a former German bunker complex and V2 Rocket Base. Designed by the German Organisation Todt and constructed from 1943 to 1944, the site was intended as a major launching point for V2 Rockets against targets in England.
The Musée de la Résistance et de la Déportation de Besançon (Besançon Museum of Resistance and Deportation) is located within the Besançon Citadel, a Vauban fortification begun in 1668 and completed in 1711. German occupation of France during the Second World War saw the citadel employed as a detention camp for captured members of the French Resistance; approximately 100 were executed there by firing squad from 1941 to 1945.
The Popular Front of Latvia (Latvian: Latvijas Tautas fronte) was a political organisation in Latvia in the late 1980s and early 1990s which led Latvia to its independence from the Soviet Union. The Museum of the Popular Front of Latvia is located in its former offices, which are owned by the state, in Vecpilsētas iela 13/15 in Riga.
Museum memorializing victims of occupation regimes set in a large, storied prison built around 1890.
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.
