Musée de l’Ordre de la Libération

The Museum of the Order of the Liberation is is dedicated to the Companions of the Liberation. Inside the Invalides building in Paris, it covers the feats and the sacrifice of individuals and groups that left everything behind to continue the battle when all seemed lost, at one of the most tragic times in the history of France. From June 18th, 1940, to May 8th, 1945, they were at the core of the history of Free France, the Resistance movement inside France and the Deportation.

The Museum is spread out over 1,000 m2 over 150 showcases and 3,700 artifacts and documents. The items exhibited are personal souvenirs of the Companions: the prefect outfit and civilian clothing belonging to Jean Moulin, pennants taken from the enemy in the battlefields of Africa and Europe, uniforms belonging to the Normandie-Niemen Fighter Squadron, original drawings made in the concentration camps, the saber that belonged to General Von Choltitz, locomotive parts that were blown up with plastic explosives by the train operators themselves, underground pamphlets and newspapers...

The Museum also has a Hall of Honor that is dedicated especially to the Grand Master of the Order, General De Gaulle. His decorations are on exhibit there, his last military uniform and some of his most important wartime manuscripts, among which is the original manuscript of the “Appeal to all of the French People”.