Musée Jean Moulin, Military museum in 14th arrondissement, France

The Musée Jean Moulin occupied a building designed by Jean Willerval on the slab above the Montparnasse station, facing the Jardin Atlantique in the 15th arrondissement. Its broad low facade of white square panels, curved at the left end, carries the inscription "Mém... clerc et de la Libération de Paris | Musée Jean Moulin" and a wide glazed entrance band, with a taller dark glass and metal structure rising above. It closed on 1 July 2018 and its collections moved to the Ledoux pavilions at Place Denfert-Rochereau, reopening in 2019.

The museum opened in 1994 to honor Jean Moulin, who was the first president of the National Resistance Council and was arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and died shortly after. Its collections also cover the wider story of the French Resistance during the German occupation from 1940 to 1944.

The museum displays letters, photographs, and personal belongings of people who were active in the resistance during the occupation. These everyday objects give a concrete sense of what life was like for those who chose to resist.

The museum closed on 1 July 2018 and its collections moved to the Ledoux pavilions at Place Denfert-Rochereau, in the 14th arrondissement, where the new museum opened in 2019. The former site at 23, allée de la 2e-Division-Blindée, on the Jardin Atlantique slab above the Montparnasse station, was to be raised and converted into housing and offices.

The museum's site above the Montparnasse rail yard was not arbitrary: the German general Dietrich von Choltitz signed the surrender of his Paris garrison on this very slab on 25 August 1944. The Montparnasse quarter was also Jean Moulin's favourite district in the 1930s.