Museum of the Great War — Attraction in Péronne

Excellent museum in an very cool chateau. Clean, simple and well organised. Unfortunately, it's a little light on the details of how the war happened and the history of said war.. it's more of a series of static exhibits (very good ones) about the equipment that the soldiers had (very interesting) that you have to read through with some basic explanation of the context. Is a movie that consists of short films put to readings of soldiers' impressions of war. There are also quite a few touch screen exhibits which seemed interesting but were hard to navigate, so we lost interest on a few of them. Overall, good content, well preseted but a little dry at times and lacking a little context. The chateau is great and the price is cheap, so i recomend it. Just don't come in expecting a whole...

I found this place informative and with good displays.The only thing I didn't like was a museum Helper from the museum opening the display case and letting the public try on and take selfies in the British French and German war helmets .I had been to visit my grandfather who had been buried in a local Commonwealth war cemetery for a hundred years so I found this practice in the museum of trying on the war helmets and taking selfies in bad taste and disrespectful as if making light of the war especially after seeing a film at the museum on buring the dead...

This is an excellent museum. The English language film at the beginning of the museum is so good. It briefly explains everything about WW1 in a way that even a child could understand. The museum is also very good. It has lots to see. There is also another film that is about the Battle of the Somme but you need to check with reception when it is shown in English if you need it. We bought a combined ticket with the Thiepval museum about 25 minutes away. It was good value €10. There is a small cafe in the Peronne museum and the town is quite...