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.

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Type: Museum
Description: museum in France
Also known as: “Musee du 5 juin 1944”, “Musée du 5 Juin 1944”, “Musée Du 5 Juin 1944”, “Musée du 5 juin 1944 - Message Verlaine”, “Musée du 5 Juin 1944 ‘Message Verlaine’”, and “Musée 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

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Église du Sacré-Cœur de Tourcoing is a church, which is situated 380 metres northeast of Verlaine Message Museum.

Carliers

Metro station

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Carliers is a metro station, which is situated 380 metres east of Verlaine Message Museum.

Gare de Tourcoing

Railway station

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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

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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 third largest city in the French region of Hauts-de-France ranked by population with about 99,000 inhabitants.

Mouvaux

Town

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Mouvaux is a commune in the Nord department in northern France. It is part of the Métropole Européenne de Lille.

Roubaix

Town

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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″ north

Longitude

3.15504° or 3° 9′ 18″ east

Open location code

9F25P564+Q2

OpenStreetMap ID

node 2268074792

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

Wikidata ID

Q3330321

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In Other Languages

“Verlaine Message Museum” goes by many names.

French: “musée du 5 juin 1944”
French: “Musée du 5 juin 1944”

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