Vosges – Museums

The following museum near Colmar is highly recommended.

Please follow website links for information on opening times and admission charges. (Information accurate as of June 2011.)

Musée Mémorial Le Ligne 1914-1918
86 rue du General de Gaulle
68370 Orbey
Tel: +33 3 89 77 29 97
Website: http://www.linge1915.com/index1-an.html
Email: info@ligne1915.com

This museum provides a really good background history to battles that are fairly unfamiliar to British students of the First World War. Period photographs and maps bring the actions and conditions in this inhospitable terrain to life, although a smattering of French is useful as there are no corresponding English language translations.

The entrance to Le Ligne Memorial Museum. Photo: Mark Sluman. Click on image for full size (245 KB).