MUSEUMS 2018 THE GUIDE


Musée de La Cour d’Or – Metz Métropole Metz


The ‘Golden Court’ Museum stands right in the heart of Metz on a site that has long played a central role in the city’s history. The court’s Gallo-Roman thermal baths, ancient church, medieval granary and 17th-century staircase are all used to show off the temporary and permanent art collections to unique effect. Metz is famed for its ancient and medieval history and the museum celebrates this rich heritage, as well as incorporating the archaeological fi nds of digs during a phase of urban development around the turn of the 20th century. musee.metzmetropole.fr


Musée de la Tapisserie de Bayeux Bayeux


The ‘Cloth of the Conquest’ is surely the single most important artefact in Anglo-French history, depicting, in often very raw


photographs, fi lm, fi rst-hand accounts and stories passed down through the generations. A poignant reminder of the tragedy of war, the museum also seeks to educate today’s generations about one of the most crucial events in modern history. www.junobeach.org


Musée de la Bataille de Fromelles Fromelles


The Museum of the Battle of Fromelles remembers the human losses of July 1916


detail, the momentous events of 1066. It has recently been promised to Britain on loan, in what British Museum director Hartwig Fischer described as “a major loan, probably the most signifi cant ever from France to the UK”. For the time being, however, as has been the case for the past 950 years, you will have to retrace William’s route across the Channel to see it. www.bayeuxmuseum.com


MEMORIAL Juno Beach Centre Courseulles-sur-Mer


The Juno Beach Centre in Normandy is devoted to the Canadian soldiers who fought in the Second World War and, pertinently, to those 45,000 who lost their lives in the confl ict. As well as presenting plain facts about the war, the museum intimately touches upon the real lives of the soldiers through


The Battle of Fromelles in July 1916 was the fi rst major battle fought by Australian troops on the Western Front. It claimed nearly 8,500 lives in less than 24 hours, most of them from the Allied Forces. Established next to the Pheasant Wood Military Cemetery, where a mass grave was uncovered in 2008 (and later exhumed, reburied and


restored), the Battle of Fromelles Museum presents a series of displays and projections supported by recovered artefacts, and is guaranteed to fascinate as well as educate. ❯❯


ABBAYE D’ARTHOUS


Abbaye d’Arthous 2018


Hastingues [Landes - France]


Une abbaye pour remonter le temps


An abbey to travel back in time


EXPOSITION / EXHIBITION « Il était une fois Arthous »


ANIMATIONS / ENTERTAINMENTS ATELIERS en famille / WORKSHOPS IN FAMILY, SPECTACLES / SHOWS


RENCONTRES ARTISTIQUES et SCIENTIFIQUES / ARTISTIC and SCIENTIFIC EXCHANGES


landes.fr/abbaye-arthous-hastingues PRÉFET DE LA RÉGION NOUVELLE-AQUITAINE


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