The Museum and Memorial of Terrorism fulfills an ethical, cultural, and civic mission. All of its initiatives and services reflect a wider ambition founded upon values (freedoms, tolerance, humanism, openness to debate, etc.) that transcend ideological differences and purely material conditions.
In due course, the Museum and Memorial of Terrorism will proceed with the public procurement process according to the regulated publication procedures.
Connections with others memorials will be about sharing experiences, cooperating on museum initiatives (traveling exhibitions), and dealing with specific themes...
The Museum and Memorial of Terrorism strives to be a space for conversation and reflection on a broad array of questions: terrorism of course, as well as resilience and individual/collective resistance, the emergence of a new space for victims and care for victims by the state and society, questions related to individual and collective memory in all its forms...
Visitors to the Museum and Memorial of Terrorism will be invited to partake in a wide array of sensory and cognitive experiences through testimony objects, artifacts, videos, sound recordings, testimonies, explanations, and more...
The Museum and Memorial of Terrorism seeks to preserve, study, and exhibit artefacts and documents that reflect the reaction of modern societies confronting terrorism.
This initiative is part of a set of policies established by successive governments after the 2015 attacks. Their aim has been to enshrine the memory of victims of terrorism and foster a better understanding of this unique form of violence and its consequences.
Honoring victims means understanding why they have been the target of terrorist attacks and giving meaning to their experiences. That is the motivation behind the creation of a place that is at once a memorial and a museum.
May 11, 2021, marked a decisive moment in the creation of the landmark museum of history and society, when the location choice was finalized: Suresnes, on Mont-Valérien, near the Mémorial de la France combattante.
