A space for conservation, collection and enhancement, the Departmental Museum of Resistance and Deportation is also a place of encounter and reflection, driven by the duty to transmit a collective memory and its values of commitment and solidarity. Open to the most contemporary questions, he fulfills a triple mission historian, memorial and citizen.
In 1974 former resistance fighters and deportees from Haut-Garonnais gathered, created a memorial association and founded a first associative museum. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Liberation of Toulouse on August 19, 1994, the Departmental Council of the Haute-Garonne inaugurated the Departmental Museum of Resistance and Deportation at 52 Avenue des Demoiselles. Initially made available to the Departmental Council for a period of 10 years, the collections became the property of the Departmental Council of the Haute-Garonne on July 31, 2004.
The Museum reopens in February 2020 after 18 months of work, around a building, a mu

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