Let yourself be surprised by the Invalides and the Army Museum

Name: Let yourself be surprised by the Invalides and the Army Museum
Start: 2023-09-16T10:30:00+02:00
End: 2023-09-17T17:00:00+02:00
Location: Musée de l'Armée

Through the collections of the Musée de l'Armée, visitors discover history and the Hôtel national des Invalides. Surprises and exchanges are on the program of these guided tours!...

16 and 17 September 2023Passed

Conditions

Saturday and Sunday at 11h, 11h30, 13h30, 14h, 14h30, 15h, 15h30, 16h, 16h30 and 17h. Free activity on reservation by email (between 04/09 and 14/09 noon) or on site the same day, within the limits of available places

Registration

reservations@musee-armee.fr

Through the collections of the Musée de l'Armée, visitors discover history and the Hôtel national des Invalides. Surprises and exchanges are on the program of these guided tours! Saturday and Sunday at 11h, 11h30, 13h30, 14h, 14h30, 15h, 15h30, 16h, 16h30 and 17h (duration: 1h) Free activity on reservation at reservations@musee-armee.fr or on site the same day, subject to availability (groups of 15 people – appointment in the courtyard)

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