Musée de l'Armée

The Army Museum (Musée de l'Armée), located at the Hôtel National des Invalides, is the French national military museum. It houses one of the richest military history collections in the world, including uniforms, weapons, drawings, paintings and everyday objects, spanning from Prehistory to the present day.

The visitors have access to the online database, portfolios and subject-related publications. The 'treasury' portfolio contains 24 aesthetic, technical and symbolic valuable objects, from the late Middle Ages to the Second World War, such as Napoleon's Collar of the Légion d'honneur.

The museum has several departments, including 'From Saint Louis to Louis XIV', 'From Louis XIV to Napoleon III', ''The Two World Wars', 'The Historoal of Charles de Gaulle' and ' Extra Ordinary Cabinets'

Hôtel national des Invalides, opened in in 1674, was created by Louis XIV for the veterans of his army in the from of a veritable city with a hospice, barracks, convent, hospital and factory. Today it houses the Musée de l'Armée, the Museum of the Order of the Liberation, the Relief Map Museum. The Invalides also includes the Dôme des Invalides, the former royal chapel, which is housing the Tomb of Napoleon I and several other mausoleums.

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