Mons Memorial Museum: a unique historical site

Displaying over 5,000 artefacts - many of them donated by veterans and Belgian citizens, the museum explores all aspects of the war experience. It focuses on those that wielded the weapons as much as the weapons themselves. Field Marshall Montgomery’s beret, pieces of a soldiers’ bread ration, even a German one-tonne bomb – the first in the world, manufactured in 1917. More intimately, there are also recorded interviews with veterans and a large collection of diaries, postcards and letters to sweethearts, humanising the impact of men and women at war.

This site accepts the Pass Musée.

Permanent exhibition

The exhibits on display, selected from the city's rich military history collections, highlight fundamental questions about the relationship between the civilian and military population and lead to a wider reflection on war and society though:

• Objects from Mons military history collections
• Letters, notebooks, interviews relating the daily lives of civilians
• 3D screenings, interactive table...

Temporary exhibitions

The site invites visitors to wonder about how reality is defined, how complex it can be though temporary exhibitions.

A museum at the heart of a memorial trail

The trail will take you through a selection of historical sites: Mons was the first Belgian town to be liberated by Americn troops.

You can continue the visit by visiting the  Saint-Symphorien Military Cemetery, a mere 10 km from the museum.

A historical tank

Stop by the Esplanade Dolez to admire a Sherman tank: this vehicle is a real symbol of the liberation of the region. 

The Liberation Route

The MMM is on the European Liberation Route. This itinerary retraces the milestones of modern Europe. It takes you to milestone locations, each marked by a large boulder and each with its own interesting and often moving story about the civilians and soldiers who lived and fought there during the end of the Second World War.