Musée de l'ordre de la Libération, Military museum in Les Invalides, Paris, France.
The Musée de l'ordre de la Libération is a military museum located within Les Invalides that focuses on the French Resistance movement. Its exhibits display uniforms, weapons, documents, and photographs from 1940 to 1945 that document the struggles and operations of those who fought against occupation.
The museum was created in 1967, when General de Gaulle decided to install the Ordre de la Libération at the Hôtel des Invalides. It was first run by the association "Les amis du musée de l'ordre de la Libération", and a decree of 16 May 2008 made it a service of the order. Closed from 2012 to 2015 for renovation, it reopened on 18 June 2015 for the 75th anniversary of the appeal of 18 June and was inaugurated by President François Hollande on 19 November 2015.
The museum displays personal letters, photographs, and everyday objects from Resistance members that reveal what their lives were like under occupation. These items help visitors understand how ordinary people resisted Nazi rule through their daily choices and actions.
The museum is housed in the Hôtel des Invalides at 51 bis boulevard de La Tour-Maubourg, but visitors enter and buy tickets through the Musée de l'Armée at 129 rue de Grenelle or place Vauban. Its three galleries cover the Free French, the internal Resistance and deportation, across 1,000 square metres.
The museum's three sections are named France libre, Résistance intérieure and Déportation, and its hall of honour is devoted to de Gaulle as founder and grand master of the order. The order itself was created in 1940, and de Gaulle moved it into Les Invalides in 1967.
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