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National Resistance Museum
The National Resistance Museum of Luxembourg (Musée national de la Résistance) is located in the centre of Esch-sur-Alzette in the south-east of the country. The specially designed building (1956) traces the history of Luxembourg from 1940 to 1945. There is also an exhibition of the Nazi concentration camps and the treatment of Luxembourg Jews.[1]
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History
From the late 1940s, those involved in the resistance and political deportees began to plan a national resistance museum in order to preserve the memory of Luxembourg's Nazi victims. A committee made up of the City of Esch-sur-Alzette, unions and representatives of resistance movements undertook a fund-raising exercise which led to the opening of the Resistance Museum on 22 July 1956. In 1984, after Robert Krieps, Minister of Culture, had renewed the collection, the museum was given the status of a national museum.[2]
The collection
Wercollier's Le prisonnier politiqueThe exhibition on the ground floor describes the fate of the Luxembourg people from the German invasion on 10 May 1940, the beginning of the Nazi regime, until the liberation in September 1944 with the arrival of the Americans or in January 1945 after the Battle of the Bulge. The first floor is devoted to artefacts from the concentration camps and the treatment of Luxembourg's Jews. Works of art include the reliefs by Emile Hulten and Claus Cito outside the museum to sculptures by Lucien Wercollier and René Weyland inside. The large fresco by Foni Tissen and his canvas of the Hinzert concentration camp as well as Yvonne Useldinger's drawings of the Ravensbrück camp are also of note.[3]
Opening hours
The museum is open from Wednesday to Sunday, 2 pm to 6pm. There is no admission charge.
Bibliography
- Bernard Thomas, Bruchstellen - Chronik des Escher Resistenzmuseums ; in: forum , Nr. 299 (September 2010), pp. 12–18.
- Musée national de la Résistance, "Luxemburg im 2. Weltkrieg" ISBN 2-9599670-1-1
External links
- Museum's website (French)
References
- ^ "Musée national de la Résistance à Esch-sur-Alzette", Grand Duché de Luxembourg. (French) Retrieved 20 February 2011.
- ^ "Historique: Musée de la Résistance", Esch.lu. (French) Retrieved 20 February 2011.
- ^ "Exposition permanente": Musée de la Résistance", Esch.lu. (French) Retrieved 20 February 2011.
Categories:- National museums of Luxembourg
- World War II museums
- Esch-sur-Alzette
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