QUAND LA MÉMOIRE RENCONTRE L'HISTOIRE : 50 ANS DE COLLECTIONS

In 1944, Jean-Pierre Vernant encouraged members of the Resistance to preserve the traces of their actions. In 1975, an association of former members of the Resistance and deportees was set up in Toulouse to found a museum, which opened in 1977. Initially run by an association, then by the department, the museum moved permanently to Busca in 1994.

The museum's collections have grown steadily over the five decades of its existence. Most of them have been built up from donations, and reflect the complexity of the period and the multiplicity of individual and collective experiences. Indeed, the war was not
The war was not just the affair of a few men whose names have gone down in history. It was also the war of those who fought in the shadows, foreigners who joined the Resistance and women who went underground, all of whom have long been forgotten in history textbooks. This polyphony that makes up the museum's collections illustrates the way in which the history and memories of all these players are interwoven, nourished and illuminated by each other.