Verlaine Message Museum
The Verlaine Message Museum or Museum of 5 June 1944 is a historical museum founded in 1991 in Tourcoing, France, near Lille. It is named after the message sent by the BBC's Radio Londres at 9:15 pm on June 5, 1944 announcing the imminent invasion of Normandy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Museum
- Description: museum in France
- Also known as: “Musée du 5 juin 1944 - Message Verlaine”
- Address: Avenue de la Marne 4 bis, Tourcoing, 59200
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Église du Sacré-Cœur de Tourcoing and Carliers.
Église du Sacré-Cœur de Tourcoing
Church
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Église du Sacré-Cœur de Tourcoing is a church, which is situated 380 metres northeast of Verlaine Message Museum.
Carliers
Metro station
Photo: Floflo62, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Carliers is a metro station, which is situated 380 metres east of Verlaine Message Museum.
Gare de Tourcoing
Railway station
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tourcoing station is a railway station serving the town Tourcoing, Nord department, northern France. Gare de Tourcoing is situated 1 km northeast of Verlaine Message Museum.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tourcoing and Mouvaux.
Tourcoing
Town
Photo: Velvet, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tourcoing is a city in northern France on the Belgian border. It is designated municipally as a commune within the department of Nord. Located to the north-northeast of Lille, adjacent to Roubaix, Tourcoing is the chef-lieu of two cantons and the fourth largest city in the French region of Hauts-de-France ranked by population with about 97,000 inhabitants.
Mouvaux
Town
Photo: Floflo62, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mouvaux is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is part of the Métropole Européenne de Lille.
Roubaix
Town
Photo: Mairie de roubaix, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Roubaix is a city in northern France, located in the Lille metropolitan area on the Belgian border. It is a historically mono-industrial commune in the Nord department, which grew rapidly in the 19th century from its textile industries, with most of the same characteristic features as those of English and American boom towns. Roubaix is situated 2½ km southeast of Verlaine Message Museum.
Verlaine Message Museum
- Categories: military museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Tourcoing, Arrondissement of Lille, North, Hauts-de-France, France, Europe
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Latitude
50.71195° or 50° 42′ 43″ northLongitude
3.15504° or 3° 9′ 18″ eastOpen location code
9F25P564+Q2OpenStreetMap ID
node 2268074792OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumWikidata ID
Q3330321
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In Other Languages
“Verlaine Message Museum” goes by many names.
- French: “Musée du 5 Juin 1944 ‘Message Verlaine’”
- French: “Musee du 5 juin 1944”
- French: “musée du 5 juin 1944”
- French: “Musée du 5 juin 1944”
- French: “Musée du 5 Juin 1944”
- French: “Musée Du 5 Juin 1944”
- French: “Musée Message Verlaine”
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Highlights include Jardin Gambetta and Embarcadère.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Verlaine Message Museum”. Photo: Dsch67, CC BY-SA 3.0.