Further information
Museums and memorial sites beyond the Seine-Saint-Denis region to help you understand the history of the Resistance and the Holocaust in France.
Living History Museum in Montreuil
Based in Montreuil, the Living History Museum (Musee de l'Histoire Vivante) promotes social, working-class and popular history.
Memorial Mont-Valerien
Mont-Valérien was the main site of execution by the German army on French territory during the Second World War.
Memorial to the martyrs of the deportation
A singular work of art in the heart of the French capital, the Memorial suggests certain characteristic aspects of the concentration camp world.
Internment and Deportation Memorial - camp de Royallieu at Compiègne
This camp was one of the largest transit centers in Western Europe.
Air and Space Museum at Le Bourget
The Air and Space Museum retraces the history of aviation and the conquest of space through an extraordinary collection of objects. Partly housed in the former Le Bourget air terminal...
Museum of the Liberation of Paris
The museum is aimed at the school public but also to curious people and families, for whom it serves as a platform to exchange on family history.
Holocaust memorial in Paris
The Memorial of the Shoah in Paris is an archive, a museum, a place of mediation essential for transmission.
CERCIL, Children's Memorial Museum of the Vel'd'Hiv'
Centre for History and Memory in Orléans which traces the history of internment camps in the Loiret during the Second World War.
Museum of the National Resistance in Champigny-sur-Marne
This associative museum works to transmit the memory and values of the Resistance.
