2025 Annual Report: A Pivotal Year for the MMT

The 2025 annual report from the preliminary project team for the Museum and Memorial of Terrorism reflects—despite the uncertainties—a busy year marked by significant progress for the project and a wealth of commemorative, scholarly, and educational activities.

A New location in Paris

The year 2025 was marked by the selection of the Lourcine Barracks, in Paris’s 13th arrondissement, as the future location of the MMT. This decision, made in collaboration with the OPPIC following an offer from the Ministry of the Armed Forces, will bring together all the functions of the museum and memorial in a single location, at the heart of a dense university community.

The permanent exhibition is taking shape and the collections are expanding

The curatorial program for the future permanent exhibition was refined throughout the year, organized around three sections: “History,” “Voices of the Victims,” and “Societal Reactions.” A visitor study was also initiated.

At the same time, the MMT’s collections have been enriched with 217 new items, drawn from judicial seizures, donations, and acquisitions. Notable items include pieces of furniture from the main courtroom at the Paris Courthouse—which hosted, among other trials, the trial for the November 13 attacks—and a pledge from the September 11 Memorial Museum to loan thirteen objects.

Intense commemorative, scientific and educational activity

Ten years after the attacks of January and November 2015, the MMT stood alongside the victims and their loved ones at all official ceremonies and presented two original exhibitions in public spaces in Paris—on the railings of City Hall and at the République metro station.

Research and education took center stage, with seminars, archival projects, a partnership with the journal L’Histoire, and several engagements with school groups, reaffirming the MMT’s role in building a shared memory of terrorism.

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