Rol-Tanguy's bunker
Twenty metres down: the command room of the August 1944 uprising, preserved.
Coyau — CC BY-SA 3.0 · William Jexpire — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Mulotropisme — CC BY-SA 4.0 · Mulotropisme — CC BY-SA 4.0
Ask immediately on arrival or check the official site to book ahead. Tours run at set times with limited numbers because the space is tight, and the day's places can go early. The bunker is the best part of the museum — do not leave it to chance.
The catacombs, whose entrance is on the same square — but note that they need advance booking and have very long queues. Combining the two means a half day literally underground, which makes sense in bad weather.
Sign in to write your review of this place.
No reviews yet — be the first.
A museum of the liberation of Paris in 1944 and of General Leclerc and Jean Moulin, in a historic building at Place Denfert-Rochereau, where it moved in 2019. The site is what makes it exceptional: beneath the building is an underground bunker used by Colonel Rol-Tanguy, commander of the internal Resistance in Paris, as the command post for the August 1944 uprising. The bunker survives with its equipment and telephone lines and can be visited — you descend twenty metres underground into the room from which the battle for the city was directed. The exhibition above follows two parallel lives: Jean Moulin, who unified the internal Resistance and was killed under torture, and Philippe Leclerc, who commanded the armoured division that entered Paris. The two stories meet at the liberation. Important practical points: the permanent collection is free, but the bunker visit usually runs as a timed tour with limited places and may need booking — ask on arrival or book ahead, as it is the best part of the visit. The bunker involves descending stairs.
Twenty metres down: the command room of the August 1944 uprising, preserved.
Jean Moulin who unified the Resistance, Leclerc who entered Paris with the tanks.
Among the best free museums in Paris, and one of the least crowded.
Place Denfert-Rochereau, 14th arrondissement, Paris