Guided tour by the director: collections and command post of Colonel Rol-tanguy

Name: Guided tour by the director: collections and command post of Colonel Rol-tanguy
Start: 2023-09-17T14:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T16:15:00+02:00
Location: Musée de la Libération de Paris - musée du général Leclerc - musée Jean Moulin

The director of the museum tells the story of Jean Moulin, General Leclerc and their compatriots, in Paris and in Free France, from the late 1930s to the Liberation. A parking lot…

Sunday 17 September 2023, 14:30Passed

Conditions

Reservation on site the same day, subject to availability 18 people max

Musée de la Libération de paris - musée du général Leclerc - Musée Jean Moulin (Paris musées, Photo Pierre Antoine

The director of the museum tells you the story of Jean Moulin, General Leclerc and their compatriots, in Paris and in Free France, from the late 1930s until the Liberation. A sensitive and well-documented journey through one of the most moving periods in world history.

About the location

Musée de la Libération de Paris - musée du général Leclerc - musée Jean Moulin

4 avenue du colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy 75014 Paris

Paris
Île-de-France

The Musée de la Libération de Paris – musée du général Leclerc – musée Jean Moulin opened its doors on August 25, 2019, on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Liberation of Paris, at its new site on Place Denfert-Rochereau.
It makes it possible to understand a fundamental page of the history of France through the journey of two very different men, Jean Moulin and Philippe de Hauteclocque. Each according to his ideas launches into the fight to defend their homeland. Their common goal? The liberation of France, of which the Liberation of Paris is the strongest symbol. Their stories accompany the visitor through a journey punctuated by encounters and face-to-face with more than 300 objects, original documents, photographs, archive videos or testimonies that evoke resistance, fighting, repression, the clandestinity and the rediscovered freedom.
A high place of the resistance is hidden under the museum: the command post of Colonel Rol-Tanguy. Opened for the first time, it invites vi