Mons Memorial Museum
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| Location | 51 Boulevard Dolez Mons, Belgium |
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| Coordinates | 50°27′00″N 3°57′25″E / 50.44997°N 3.95694°E |
| Type | Military museum |
| Website | musees-expos |
Mons Memorial Museum (MMM) is a museum located in Mons, Hainaut Province in Belgium focusing on the military history of the region, with particular focus on World War I and World War II.
Formerly known as the Museum of Military History of Mons (French: Musée d’Histoire militaire de Mons), the museum was opened in 2015 in the year that Mons was a joint European Capital of Culture. It is located in the former municipal water pumping station known as the Machine-à-Eau (lit. 'water machine') built in 1871 which was extended as part of the museum project.[1][2]
The museum's permanent collection includes more than 5,000 artefacts[3] and is displayed over 1,200 square metres (13,000 sq ft).[1]
It also hosts regular temporary exhibitions. For example, in July 2025, a temporary exhibition opened called 'L'esprit carcéral', focusing on four people once imprisoned in Mons prison: the 19th century French poet Paul Verlaine, poet and World War Two Belgian Resistance member Marguerite Bervoets, her resistance colleague Cécile Detournay, and their contemporary, Fernand Dumont, a Belgian poet, lawyer and resistance writer.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "La première pierre du 'Mons Memorial Museum' a été posée à la Machine à eau". RTBF (in French). 13 January 2014. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ Palmitessa, Isabelle (3 April 2015). "Le Mons Memorial Museum ou comment la guerre bouleverse les destins". RTBF (in French). Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ "Mons Memorial Museum: An Intimate Portrait of War". Visit Wallonia. Wallonie Belgique Tourisme asbl. Retrieved 13 April 2024.
- ^ "L'esprit carcéral". Pôle muséal Mons (in French). Retrieved 2025-07-26.
External links
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