Journées du Patrimoine 2025: visit the Musée de la Grande Guerre in Meaux (77) with your family

Since its creation in 2011, the Musée de la Grande Guerre has taken part in the annual Heritage Days. For this 42nd edition, curious visitors are invited to join us on September 20 and 21, 2025, to learn more about the history of the First World War, thanks to previously unpublished collections carefully preserved by the museum team.

Through a chronological and thematic tour, suitable for children aged 7 and over, the museum helps us to understand how the world was toppled into this Great War, and how this conflict totally changed the face of the world, with its duration and violence of rare intensity.

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This museum in the town of Meaux is dedicated to the First World War, with some 70,000 historical objects and interactive displays. This extensive collection is largely the result of research by Jean-Pierre Verney, a historian specializing in the Great War. Photographs, statues, military equipment, paintings, propaganda material, soldiers' uniforms... Through its exhibition spaces, the museum addresses the human, military and technical upheavals engendered by this war, from the viewpoints of different nations.

On the program for the Journées du Patrimoine at the Musée de la Grande Guerre:

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And if you're a history buff, make the most of the JEP to discover other testimonies to the past hidden in Seine-et-Marne.