Musée de la Résistance de Limoges
7 rue Neuve-Saint-Etienne, 87000 Limoges
- Haute-Vienne
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
This cultural institution of the City of Limoges illustrates the values of citizens and solidarity carried by the Resistance during the Second World War. Dedicated to all those who have sacrificed themselves to defend the fundamental values of the Republic, its vocation is to bring memory to life by offering a place for teaching and disseminating information, especially for young audiences. Located in the former convent of the Sisters of Providence of the seventeenth and eighteenth century, in the heart of the district of the City, it proposes on 1400 m2 a museum tracing rigorously the historical facts of the Second World War and especially the Resistance, occupation and deportation in the Haute-Vienne.
Presented in ten sequences, starting in 1939, this dynamic journey stems from the scientific program developed by Olivier Wieviorka, a national historian and specialist of the Second World War, Pascal Plas, historian specializing in the Second World War in the Centre-West, and Annie Mar
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Édifice religieux i Lieu de culture, spectacles, sports et loisirs
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