Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists visit the Memorial Museum in Caen, France, to see its WW1 exhibitions.
The Memorial Museum in the city of Caen in Normandy is one of the most visited museums in the world, and for anyone interested in WW1 (and subsequent 20th Century conflicts) who is planning a visit or holiday to France, the museum offers a chance to see a wide range of exhibits.
The Museum’s website states the following:
The extraordinary success of Le Mmorial de Caen lies in the initial resolve of its founder, Mr Jean-Marie Girault. With destruction wreaked across almost three quarters of this martyr city of the Liberation in the summer of 1944, Caen deserved a fitting tribute for the damage it suffered. And such a tribute was paid, but with the focus on what continues to be the Mmorials running theme: reconciliation.
This vocation, unique to Le Mmorial de Caen, will guide you through the museums different stages, taking you back over the 20th century. This chapter in global history opened in Sarajevo on 28 June 1914 with the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and partly ended on 9 November 1989 in Berlin with the Fall of the Wall. Between these two dates and between these two World Wars, some 60 millions people would lose their lives and the most hostile of political systems to the key principles of respecting life would plunge the world into the chaos and brutality that characterized the last century.
We are all heirs to this century whose memory we must keep alive at all costs. The memory of the people who suffered, the memory of ideas and the memory of sacrifices to save us from mans inhumanity to man.
We are delighted to welcome all our visitor friends, whoever you may be and wherever youre from, in the hope that the time you spend at Le Mmorial de Caen proves fulfilling and worthwhile.”
To visit the Memorial Museum’s website, click here.
Images courtesy Caen Normandy Museum website.