Visit of the National Memorial of Montluc Prison

Name: Visit of the National Memorial of Montluc Prison
Start: 2023-09-16T09:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:30:00+02:00
Location: Mémorial National de la prison de Montluc

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, discover the National Memorial of the prison of Montluc, the only prison in France preserved in its entirety and accessible to the public....

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Free entry

On the occasion of the European Heritage Days, discover the National Memorial of the Montluc prison, the only prison in France preserved in its entirety and accessible to the public.
All visitors benefit from an introduction to the history of the Montluc prison and then discover the site freely by having access to many spaces, including the former women’s detention district, closed in 2009, exceptionally open to visitors for the European Heritage Days.
SATURDAY ONLY: The Memorial is engaged, between 2022 and 2025, in a vast project of restoration and rehabilitation of part of its building. Visit the site, accompanied by the companies commissioned for this major work, and discover the problems specific to the conservation of a site listed as Historic Monuments.

About the location

Mémorial National de la prison de Montluc

4 rue Jeanne Hachette, 69003 Lyon

Métropole de Lyon
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

Built in 1921, Montluc’s prison was not really used until the beginning of the Second World War. Military prison of the Vichy regime from 1940 to 1943, it was then requisitioned by the Nazi occupier from January 1943\. As a military prison in the Wehrmacht, Montluc quickly came under the control of the Gestapo and Klaus Barbie. It was then in Lyon and for the whole region, the main gateway to deportation and executions. Home to nearly 10,000 men, women and children interned during the German occupation, including the children of Izieu, Jean Moulin and Marc Bloch, Montluc Prison is an emblematic site of German and French repression policies in the Lyon region. It became a civil prison in 1947, and still operates with the military court in Lyon and welcomes its various convicts, especially during the Algerian War of Independence. The prison closed as a women’s detention centre in 2009 and in 2010 became a national memory centre open to the public. Only prison in France preserved in its e