WW2 trips and museum visits
Statue to the fallen soldiers outside the museum
German bunker outside the museum

Centre Juno Beach 2006, 2011

 

The Juno Beach Centre or, in French, Centre Juno Beach, is a museum located in Courseulles-sur-Mer. The museum is situated directly behind Juno Beach on which 14,000 Canadian troops landed on D-Day June 6, 1944. The Centre was conceived in the 1990s by a group of Canadian veterans who felt that the contributions and sacrifices of Canadian soldiers during the liberation of Europe were not properly commemorated and represented in the Normandy region. It houses a permanent exhibit consisting out of 7 exhibit rooms showing documents, photographs, maps, artifacts, audiovisual and audio accounts, which allow specific atmospheres to be created. The Centre alternates between areas of emotion, reflection, discovery and information, eliciting the visitor’s participation. There are also various temporary exhibitions which changes approximately once per year and which highlights various histories and themes relating to Canada’s past and present. A gap in the dunes is filled by a symbolic structure shaped as a landing craft a memorial to the French Resistance. An intact German bunker, once an observation post, stands immediately in front of this memorial.