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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: Koppi on November 19, 2020, 07:09:38 PM

Title: Bayeux - Musée Memorial de la Bataille de Normandie
Post by: Koppi on November 19, 2020, 07:09:38 PM

Pictures from the fabulous museum in Normandy.

https://thrifles.blogspot.com/2020/11/bayeux-musee-memorial-de-la-bataille-de.html

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Title: Re: Bayeux - Musée Memorial de la Bataille de Normandie
Post by: italwars on November 20, 2020, 09:44:37 PM

Sorry but at a glance  ..not interesting at all .such big spaces for all this computer images and written panels that told bla bla for the masses in flip flops  including, from what I see, a diorama that seem to have been made and conceived for children of 10...I prefer old dusty cabinets full of helmets and weapons and rare photos that you can see on old forgotten small museums

Title: Re: Bayeux - Musée Memorial de la Bataille de Normandie
Post by: Jemima Fawr on November 20, 2020, 11:10:15 PM

The museum used to be fantastic until about 12 years ago, but then Georges Bernage fell out with the owners and took his collection away, which was about 75% of the museum's vehicles.  They then went to as museum in Falaise, but then that went bust and I think they're now in the new museum next to the roundabout at Omaha Beach cemetery (which I haven't yet visited).

Title: Re: Bayeux - Musée Memorial de la Bataille de Normandie
Post by: crafty on November 21, 2020, 10:39:53 AM

Thanks for posting those photos on your blog. The museum looks impressive, especially the uniforms & array of weaponry. It would be great to have a resource like that close to home, for painting research etc. I'd love to get there one day....one day.

Title: Re: Bayeux - Musée Memorial de la Bataille de Normandie
Post by: bluewillow on November 21, 2020, 10:01:52 PM

It is a great museum, I have not visited since the upgrades though.

Cheers
Matt