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The Museum, which opened on 11 November 2011 on the site of the First Battle of the Marne in Meaux, is Europe’s biggest First World War museum. Spread across 3,000 square metres, it has one of the richest and most varied collections linked to the Great War, with attractive, innovative scenography.
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- The Great War in A New Light
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- United States of America Involvement in World War I
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Apart from the insight it gives into the lives of those caught up in the conflict, the Great War Museum shows how rapidly life and conditions changed between the first Battle of the Marne in 1914, more like the set piece of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870, and the second Battle of the Marne four years later, when technical advances had changed warf...
The Battle of the Marne was one of the opening campaigns in World War I. It was fought in September 1914 in the countryside around Meaux, on a front stretching from Senlis to Verdun. It was fiercely fought, particularly during the Battle of the Ourcq. Today, the municipalities of Pays de Meaux and its surroundings (Barcy, Chambry, Chauconin-Neufmon...
The museum is designed as a journey through time with explanations in French, English, and German, and is easy to navigate and understand. You start in another world—in the far-off days of the late 19th century and the 1870 Franco Prussian war, and move through to 1914. It's an evocative look at a different era, of life in the days of grand houses ...
There are two routes through the museum. The first takes 90 minutes; the second takes either a half or a full-day. It’s worth making time for the long visit (and you can skip parts). There is so much to see here, and it’s not just static; you can smell the trenches, use the interactive screens, walk past the series of room settings placing the war ...
Themes take up a large part of the museum, ranging from the new warfare using technological developments that changed the face of the fighting to the decisive role women played in the conflict. There’s a section on daily life in the trenches, and a sobering and somber section called Bodies and Souls, illustrating how the extreme violence of the war...
There’s also an excellent section on the United States of America. The American Expeditionary Force was vital in the final victory and the story beautiful in a special section that has a recreation of an American camp.
A more lighthearted section deals with everyday objects from the war front and the home front. Starting as a way to combat boredom and to make life easier with items like lighters and oil lamps, the objects quickly developed into ‘trench art,’ real works of art such as the delightful mandolins made out of Adrian helmets.
There were— 1. 35 countries involved in the fighting 2. Over 70 million men mobilized 3. Over 9 million soldiers dead, including 1,412,000 from France 4. Over 13 million civilians dead from the Armenian genocide, famine, and Spanish flu (apart from war victims)
There is a two to two-and-a-half hour Battlefields tour that you can take, going from the Monument to the Dead in Meaux and taking in various sites to end back in Meaux. Reservations—Seine-et-Marne Tourisme Information on the Battlefields Tour—Service Patrimoine-Art et Histoire, 19 rue Bossuet Meaux
Meaux is 42 kilometers (26 miles) east of Paris. 1. By car—Take the A4 motorway from Paris and follow the signs to Meaux. There is a free car park at the museum. 2. By train—Trains from the Gare de l’Est take 30 minutes to Meaux railway station. From the station take bus line M6.
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Jul 22, 2021 · The Museum of the Great War in the city of Meaux, France, is the largest museum in Europe on the First World War, bringing together nearly 70,000 objects, uniforms, devices and military devices displayed across multimedia exhibitions in an impressive contemporary architectural building of nearly 3,000m².
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With a collection that is unique in Europe, the Museum of the Great War, Pays de Meaux offers a new perspective on the first global conflict, through innovative displays which illustrate the huge social changes and upheaval it caused.
The Musée de la Grande Guerre du Pays de Meaux has its origins in a meeting between Jean-Pierre Verney, a passionate, self-taught historian who, over more than 45 years, collected 50 000 objects and documents on the First World War – one of the largest private collections in Europe – and Jean-François Copé, chairman of the Pays de Meaux ...
With a collection of nearly 70,000 items and documents telling the daily lives of soldiers and civilians between 1914 and 1918, the Great War Museum in Meaux is an unmissable site to discover history.
Sep 6, 2024 · Rue Lazare Ponticelli – 77100 Meaux – Tel.: +33 (0)1 60 32 14 18. Plan Vigipirate: to ensure visitor safety, the Great War Museum applies the preventive counter-terrorism measures set down by the Government for public administrations.
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