The museum of the Libération chose six objects belonging to its collections, mostly gone out of its reserves: the helmet(headphones) of the captain having freed(released) the Fort of Roule in June, 1944, a doll in the colours of the Libération, a wooden executive(frame) sculpted by a German prisoner of war …
Every object will tell a story: history(story) of its creation, history(story) of his old(former) owner, history(story) of its uses(practices), but also history(story) of an object of the become everyday life(daily paper) object of museum. Exhibition(Exposure) raises so the question of the status of objects in the museums of contemporary history(story): of the expanding, utilitarian object of history(story), in the object relic, carrier of report(memory).
The jacket of tank of Charles de Gaulle
Exceptional loan of the museum of the army
As part of the «Catalogue of desires», device(plan) to encourage the traffic(circulation) of the heads of works of the national collections on the French territory, the museum of the Army lent to the museum of liberation a rare room(part,play), the jacket of leather tank of Charles de Gaulle.
This jacket is the regulation holding(dress) of the crews(equipages) of tanks, which have a leather garment so to protect them from projections of liquid and from fires. Carried by Charles de Gaulle during fights of May-June, 1940, this model was hidden by his(her) driver(chauffeur) during Activity(Occupation) before being returned to it in the Libération. General de Gaulle chooses to give it to the museum of the Army in 1969, on the occasion of the opening of rooms devoted to the Second World War.
The jacket is presented as part of exhibition(exposure) «objects tell war 1939-1945».