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...
Museum collections have been designed to reflect both the collective history and individual experiences. They therefore include photographs, objects, and private archives that tell life stories. Testimonies are also collected to explain these objects.
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 diversity of terrorist organizations and contexts in which they operate (ideological, social, organizational, etc.) make it difficult to put forward a stable definition.
The Museum and Memorial of Terrorism seeks to preserve, study, and exhibit artefacts and documents that reflect the reaction of modern societies confronting terrorism.
The Museum and Memorial of Terrorism will have a national focus.
However, it will also have an international dimension and will seek to be universalist in scope.
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.
