Meeting the Friends of the Army Museum Society

Name: Meeting the Friends of the Army Museum Society
Start: 2022-09-17T10:00:00+02:00
End: 2022-09-18T18:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée de l'Armée

Activities to discover in the main courtyard and the Museum rooms

17 and 18 September 2022Passed

Conditions

free entrance

Partners of the Museum
Friends of the Army Museum Society (SAMA) offers two animations. In the courtyard of honour, volunteers will present the objectives of the society, its history, its actions in favor of the museum, its activities. Of the numbers of the Bulletin of liaison and of the Review will be made available. In the rooms of the museum, meet its members who will comment on the most significant donations, especially in the exhibition A whole story! The collections of the Musée de l'Armée which will be closed to the public this weekend.
Location: Cour d'honneur of the Hôtel des Invalides

About the location

Musée de l'Armée

129 rue de Grenelle 75007 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

The Army Museum is a museum of military history, art and techniques, one of the largest in the world. The museum and the site of the Invalides in which it is inscribed bear witness to the military history of France. Through the military prism, the collections also bear witness to political, diplomatic and social history. The main courtyard, the churches, the prestigious collections of the Army Museum... So many spaces to discover to travel in history, from the Middle Ages to today, and meet the great men, but also the anonymous soldiers, who marked it. The museum occupies a large part of the Hôtel des Invalides built under Louis XIV under the responsibility of the Minister of War, the Marquis de Louvois, for"to receive and house all soldiers and officers who are both crippled, old and obsolete and to ensure there a sufficient fund for their subsistence". The buildings, whose construction began in 1671, on the plans of Liberal Bruant (1637-1697) welcome the first boarders in 1674\. The