Collections du Mémorial de Verdun et de l’ancien Musée militaire de Diors

From March 01, 2014 to November 30, 2015

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Centre Mondial de la Paix

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Collections du Mémorial de Verdun et de l’ancien Musée militaire de Diors Place Monseigneur Ginisty 55100 Verdun

The World Peace Centre in Verdun will host collections from the Verdun Memorial (closed for refurbishment) until November 2015. A temporary exhibition created with Meuse Council will unveil a part of the collection from the Diors Ancient Military Museum.

Exact dates are pending.

Contact

Centre Mondial de la Paix
Place Monseigneur Ginisty
55100 Verdun
Tel: + 33 (0) 3 29 86 55 00

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Things to see

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Rendez-vous at Centre Pompidou-Metz

The Pompidou-Metz Centre, a contempory artistic creation.
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Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Reims

This Gothic marvel of architecture belongs to the monuments listed by UNESCO as a world heritage site.
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Disneyland® Paris

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Louvre-Lens Museum

The Louvre museum has come to Lens in Nord-Pas-de-Calais in its complete richness and diversity. A place dedicated to culture for everybody.

Point of interest

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Rendez-vous in the Trench of Bayonets

French Soldiers Standing Upright, Guns to the Ready
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Visit the Verdun Memorial

Memorial Renaissance
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Rendez-vous to visit the nine destroyed villages

Nine Villages decorated with the 'Croix de Guerre' and declared 'Died for France'
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Rendez-vous in the Douaumont Ossuary

French-German Symbol of Reconciliation
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Rendez-vous in the Fort Douaumont

The Heart of the Verdun Battleground
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Rendez-vous in the Fort Vaux

Symbol for Heroism for the French Soldiers
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Rendez-vous on the Eparges Ridges

Key Strategic Point over the Woevre Plain
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Rendez-vous on the Vauquois Ridge

A Major Site in the Underground Mining Campaign
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Rendez-vous to visit the Duzey Gun

German Guns behind the Lines
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Rendez-vous in the ‘Kaiser Tunnel’ near Lachalade

Remembering the Underground Galleries
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Rendez-vous at The German Camp Moreau

In Gruerie Wood can be seen many reminders from the fighting of 1915.
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Rendez-vous on the Montsec Hill American Memorial

Monument Commemorating the American First Army
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Rendez-vous at Trenches of the Hand of Massiges

Offering fine views over the Argonne, the Meuse and the Ardennes, the land of the Hand of Massiges has remained in the same condition with the First World War mines and trenches.