[table="width: 100%"] [tr] [td]For anybody planning a visit, Arramanches is now a popular tourist destination on the Normandy coast, and just like so many other Normandy towns and villages they too have their Sherman tank as a memorial to the D-Day invasion. [/td] [td] [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td]Unlike those other towns, with the exceptions of Caen and Bayeux, they also have an extremely comprehensive museum with a large diorama of the mulberry harbour which was built there following the invasion. Outside the museum, on the roadway down to the beach there is also a piece of the pontoon roadway and on the beach some of the huge concrete caissons are still visible, although they are now half buried by the sand and some are still in their positions out in the sea. [/td] [td] [/td] [/tr] [tr] [td] [/td] [td] [/td] [/tr] [/table] The Museum to Peace at Caen has a stunning display of the history of the twentieth century, documenting in sound and pictures the descent into total war. The D-Day museum at Bayeux is another interesting visit; you’ll find it almost directly opposite the British War Cemetery. The pictures are from Google Earth.
The last visit we did to Normandy we called in at the Museum to Peace at Caen, it is a visit that i would highly reccomend to anyone who does visit Caen. The French are very passionate about this period in time and what we saw highlights this. There must have been quite a number of school visits the day we were there, each group were taking notes in each part of the museum, later we would see then all sat down doing some kind of questions and answers with their teachers.
