Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
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Musée Airborne
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Arromanches 360
D-Day Museums
Musée Mémorial de la
Bataille de Normandie
A good place to start, this
museum gives an excellent
overview of the 77-day battle.
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blvd Fabian-Ware, Bayeux
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Map D3
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Open daily
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Adm charge
Musée des Épaves
A fascinating collection of
D-Day wrecks.
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rte de Bayeux, Port-
en-Bessin
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Map C3
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Open Jun-Sep:
daily; May: 10am-noon, 2-6pm Sat & Sun
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Adm charge
Musée du Débarquement
Port Winston, the artificial
harbour constructed in the bay
outside, is brought vividly to life.
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St-Côme, Arromanches
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Map D3
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Open Feb-Dec: daily
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Adm charge
Musée de la Liberté
An absorbing “museum
without weapons , describing life
in occupied France and the liber-
ation of the Cotentin Peninsula.
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Quinéville
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Map B2
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Open mid-Mar-
mid-Nov: daily
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Adm charge
Arromanches 360
Surrounded by nine screens,
the viewer witnesses the events
of D-Day in an 18-
minute film,
The Price
of Freedom
.
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St-Côme,
Arromanches
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Map D3
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Open
Feb-Dec: daily
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Adm charge
Musée Airborne
Shaped like a
parachute, this museum
commemorates the
American paratroops
dropped behind Utah
Beach.
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Ste-Mère-Eglise
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Map B3
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Open Feb-Nov:
daily
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Adm charge
Juno Beach Centre
A museum depicting
the Canadian contribution
to D-Day.
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Courseulles-
sur-Mer
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Map D3
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Open
Feb-Dec: daily
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Adm charge
Musée des
Rangers
The museum tells the
saga of the US Rangers, from
their formation in June 1942 to
their heroic assault on Pointe du
Hoc.
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Grandcamp-Maisy
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Map C3
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Open Apr-Oct: Tue-Sun
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Adm charge
Bill Millin's bagpipes,
Musée Mémorial Pegasus
Musée Mémorial Pégasus
Bill Millin's bagpipes are
among the exhibits commemora-
ting the British glider assault at
Bénouville.
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Ranville-Bénouville
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Map
E3, D3
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Open Feb-Dec: daily
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Adm charge
Le Grand Bunker
The impressive command
post of the German battery at
Ouistreham houses the Atlantic
Wall Museum.
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Ouistreham
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Map
E3
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Open Feb-Nov: daily
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Adm charge
Musee des Épaves
For information on the peace museum, Le Mémorial
See pp 25, 52
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