The Collections

Presentation of the collections

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The Historial assembles a collection of more than 50,000 civil and military quotidian objects. These amazing, unusual and sometimes absurd testimonies are constantly increased through an active acquisitions policy. Individual and collective memories present the last days of the old world and the birth of the twentieth century through an approach that is at once cultural, social and military.

Thousands of posters, lithographs, press clippings, objects, uniforms, postcards, books and periodicals, photographs, scrapbooks and many other documents collectively provide an international panorama of the conflict.

Contact:
Marie-Pascale Prévost-Bault, curator in chef
Frédérick Hadley, curator assistant (acquisition)
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