BATTLEFIELDS & MUSEUMS
- Europe - France
The
Invalides Musee De L'Armee
Paris Le
Memorial de Caen
Caen
The
Airborne Museum
Sainte Mere Eglis
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INVALIDES
MUSEE DE L'ARMEE
129, rue de Grenelle
75007 PARIS
Phone: 01 44 42 37 72
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From Louis X1V to Napoleon 111,
the Soldiers Church, The Emporer's tomb, and weapons and armour from Henry the
8th to WW1 and WW11 along with artillery and emblems.

Admissions and Times:
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The museum is open every day of
the year except on
January 1 ; May 1 ; November 1 ; and December 25-
October to March 31 included : from 10 AM to 4
:45 PM,
April to September 30
included : from 10 AM to 5 :45 PM
June 15 to September 15 included :
The Dome church including the Tomb of Napoleon I
are open from 10 AM to 6 :45 PM |
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January
1st 2001 |
The ticket of the musée de l’Armée
offers to the visitor
free entrance to the museum and all temporary exhibitions,
the Dome Church and the Tomb of Napoleon I,
the museum of Relief Maps and the museum
of the Order of the Liberation,
also located in the Hotel national des Invalides.
Full rate : 40 F 6 €
30 F 4,5 € (for children between 12 and 17 included)
Free for children under 12 |
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250 km (155 mi) north-west of
Paris on A13 Paris-Cherbourg motorway interchange along Caen north
circular road exit 5 or 6. |
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Nowadays,
the Memorial of Caen remains the only museum to give an overview of History
from 1918 to our days. From the beginning, the Memorial has been dedicated to
the causes and consequences of the Second World War, and today the perspective
widens.
Thanks to 2500 m² of new areas, the visitor will be able to carry on with his
trip through one of the most striking event of the second half of the century
: the Cold War. Afterwards the visitor will end his trip through History in a
place devoted to peace, an ideal place for thinking and meditating.
A shining example in the richness of the collection exhibited, innovative in
the presentation, the Memorial of Caen combines History with a resolutely
modern concept.
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OPENING TIMES:
Open daily :
From 9 am to 7 pm (from 02/08/03 to 07/11/03, from 08/25/03 to 11/21/03
and from 11/03/03 to 12/31/03)
And from 9 am to 8pm (from 07/12/03 to 08/24/03) closed on Christmas Day.
Cash desks close 1.15 hours before the Museum closes.
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INDIVIDUAL RATES:
From 1st April to 31st august
2003 :
Full price : 17
Euros
Reduced price : 15
Euros
From 1st September to 31st December 2003 :
Full price : 16,5
Euros
Reduced price: 14
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14, rue Eisenhower - 50 480 Sainte Mère Eglise
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Sainte-Mère-Eglise is proud to have been the
first town to be liberated during the night of the 5th-6th June 1944.
The Airborne Museum is set in a 3000 sq metre park opposite the church.
The two buildings are designed in the shape of parachutes. The first houses an
authentic Waco glider, with many displays of period documents, testimonies,
weapons, munitions, war material, and a liberty torch presented to the museum
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The second, delta-shaped building
contains a C-47, commonly called a Dakota, which on D-Day dropped
paratroopers and towed gliders. Period uniforms as well as personal
objects offered by American veterans are displayed around the
aircraft. |
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OPENING
HOURS
The Museum is open daily
- From February 1st to March 31th and
from October 1st to November 30th.
from 9.30 to 12.00am and from 2.00 to 6.00pm
- From April 1st to 30th September
30th
from 9.00am to 6.45pm
Closed December 1st to January 31th
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PRICES:
- Adult:
4.54 EURO
- Children:
1.81 EURO
(6-14)
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