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129, rue de Grenelle 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:
| Times | 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 |
| Rates as of 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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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 by President Eisenhower. |
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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
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