Caen Memorial

The City of History for Peace, a site not to be missed…

Caen, bombed in the summer of 1944, a martyred city during the Liberation, deserved a tribute commensurate with what it had endured.

As early as 1969, Jean-Marie Girault put forward the idea of a museum dedicated primarily to the Second World War. The Caen Memorial was inaugurated on June 6, 1988 by François Mitterand.

From the origins of the Second World War to the end of the Cold War, the different routes tell and explain the terrible story of the 20th century.

The building occupies the site of the command bunker of German General W. Richter, who opposed Anglo-Canadian troops on June 6, 1944.

The Caen Memorial also opens onto 35 hectares of American, Canadian and British gardens, a tribute to the soldiers who died in the war.

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