Mémorial de Verdun

**Verdun Memorial**
	museum and memorial to the Battle of Verdun
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Instance of	military museum;
Location	Verdun, arrondissement of Verdun, Meuse, Grand Est, Metropolitan France, France
Inception	1967;
Visitors per year	191,106;
Sponsor	Bank of France; Crédit Mutuel; Société des Autoroutes du Nord et de l'Est de la France; Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations; Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission; Enedis;
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	49° 11′ 42.36″ N, 5° 26′ 01.03″ E
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English: Verdun Memorial - the museum of the great battle of the World War I - battle of Verdun in France (1916); the museum is located in Fleury-devant-Douaumont near Verdun

Polski: Muzeum Pamięci Bitwy pod Verdun (Mémorial de Verdun) - muzeum wielkiej bitwy I wojny światowej pod Verdun we Francji w 1916; muzeum znajduje się w miejscowości Fleury-devant-Douaumont koło Verdun

The museum building

Exhibition outside ...

French cannon Bange 155 mm Ml 1877
French cannon 105 mm Schneider Modele 1913
German trench mortar (Minenwerfer) 170 mm n/A (neuer Art) model with long barrel
38 cm German shell, 760 kg weight, range 23 - 38 km

... and inside of the museum building

Soldiers

French soldier in 1914
French colonial soldier
French soldier in 1916

Rifles

French fusil Lebel Mle 1886 with the grenade launcher VB
German rifle Mauser Gewehr 98 with rifle grenade laucher
US rifle Springfield M1903
German 5 round stripper clip with 7.92x57mm IS ammunition for the Mauser rifle

Muchine guns

French machine gun Hotchkiss M 1914
French machine gun Chauchat
German machine gun MG 08/15

Guns, limbers, caissons

German 10,5 cm light field howitzer M 16
French 155 mm gun Schneider M 1917
French field gun 75 mm Mle 1897 with limber
Caisson (ammunition carriage)

Mortars and grenade launchers

German trench mortar Lanz 91 mm
French grenade launcher 58 mm type 1
German grenade laucher M 1916 (Gr.W.16) "Taube" ("Pigeon")
German grenade "Pigeon" M 1916

Helmets and anti-gas masks

French TNH-type and english gas mask
US Brodie helmet and gas mask with bag
French sentry's helmet designed to protect the face, invented by Maj. Pollack, MD, medical officer
German cuirrassier's helmet
Helmet of prussian dragoon officer

Aeroplanes

German fighter aircraft Fokker E.III
French fighter aircraft Nieuport 11

Hand grenades

Defensive fragmentation grenade 16 type
French grenade Citron-Fougass type
Disc grenade "Turtle" M 1914
French grenade "Bracelet"
German grenades
Incendiary french grenade
IPercussion scoop grenade
French grenades bag

Shells

75 mm tracing shell M 17
Shells of WWI. From left to right: 90 mm fragmentation shell, 120 mm pig iron incendiary shell 77/14 model, 75 mm high explosive shell model 16, 75 mm fragmentation shell
75 mm flare
75 mm incendiary shell G6 fire

Other equipment

French truck Berliet
German military bugle
German military shove
German military barbed wire cutters
French hygiene tools
French sphygmomanometer used during World War I