Besançon Museum of Resistance and Deportation
History Museum, a civic tool
Visitors under the age of 10 are not recommended to visit.
The museum
Open since 1971, the Museum of Resistance and Deportation in Besançon is a leading museum on the theme of World War II.
After 15 years of planning and three years of closure for renovations, the museum reopened its doors on September 8, 2023. The renovation aimed to redesign the exhibition spaces, make the museum accessible to all, and create a setting specifically dedicated to the museum's treasure, its collection of art from deportation. Today, its mission is to reexamine its various roles in order to become an institution of knowledge and history, a place intimately connected to society and the world in which it exists, a " history museum and civic tool. "
It now offers three separate exhibition spaces:
Through more than 500 objects and archives, it offers an insight into the complexity of the history of World War II in France.
This space, unique in France, allows visitors to discover some of the 600 drawings, paintings, and statuettes secretly created by deportees in the camps and prisons of the Reich, one of the richest collections in Europe.
The temporary exhibition space
Each year, the museum offers a new temporary exhibition in a dedicated space.
Schedule
Focus on...
Lecture by Sarah Gensburger - Model apartments. The dispossession of Jewish tenants in Paris, 1940-1946
As part of its lecture series, the Museum of Resistance and Deportation invites Sarah Gensburger to give its next lecture.
NEW: reservations required (free) at the ticket office here: https://vosdemarches.grandbesancon.fr/billetterie/mrdb
Photo Sarah Gensburger ©Julian Tapprich