Location: Caen
Top Things to do in Caen
7 Museums in Caen That You Shouldn't Miss
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1. Memorial de Caen
Overall Ratings
4.5 based on 4,519 reviews
Located in the immediate vicinity of the D-Day Landing beaches, the Mémorial de Caen visitor centre is among the essential sites focusing on the Battle of Normandy and 20th century history. From the origins of the Second World War to the end of the Cold War, museographical displays tell this terrible side of 20th century history. Indeed, Caen, bombarded during the summer of 1944, a liberated yet martyred city, deserved a tribute well worthy of the suffering it endured. This is precisely the purpose of the Mémorial de Caen, but via a continuing perspective and action aimed at reconciliation.
Reviewed By nlansdell - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
This excellent museum charts the beginnings of, and causes behind, WW2 and the invasion of France - before detailing the events that led to its eventual liberation. It’s focus is on Normandy and Caen itself but it provides a good over view of the war in full and covers both the Pacific and African theatres. It also covers the holocaust. The material does not shy away from its subject and there are some graphic images of what took place and this includes film and pictures of dead combatants, hangings and executions - so please consider this if you are taking children. A film lasting 20 minutes brings everything together very well and I would recommend that not only that you do this at the end but that that you allow time for it. Your tickets last 24 hours so if you run out of time you can always pop back the next morning!
2. Les Salles du Rempart
3. Normandy Guided Tours
4. Musee des Beaux-Arts de Caen
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 237 reviews
Reviewed By glendabooth - Westcliff-on-Sea, United Kingdom
do not miss this museum whilst in Caen ! and only 3.50 Euro pp A fantastic museum which will absorb you and stay with you a very long time
5. Espace Yvonne Guegan
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 4 reviews
6. Musee de Normandie
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4.0 based on 324 reviews
Reviewed By Bubbles73uk - Weedon Bec, United Kingdom
Worth visiting. The Normandy Museum is focused on history and society and provides a good panorama of the life of people living all over the Normandy region, from prehistoric times to the migrations of the early Middle Ages, the changes in the countryside and the first upheavals of the Industiral Revolution.
7. Frac Basse Normandie
Overall Ratings
5.0 based on 5 reviews
