After the Musée de la Libération, another part of the History will be soon paid tribute in a dedicated cultural place. Paris will welcome a terrorism memorial museum as announced in 2018 by Emmanuel Macron. According to AFP, it is to open by 2027. This Wednesday May 12, 2021, Emmanuel Macron said where this upcoming museum will be located: it will be in the Mont Valérien area in Surennes, Hauts-de-Seine. Kickoff for the construction is planned for March 2022. To conduct this project well, Historian Henry Rousso has been named by Edouard Philippe when the latter was still Prime Minister.
He describes the conception of this museums as “a place with a double goal, binding transmission and homage, and holding together emotion and reflection”. But where will this museum surface? The place is to be set by 2022 and might be whether in Paris or around the capital, in the greater Paris. the place housing the upcoming museum will yet not be related to any terror attack in particular.
The goal of this museum? Detailing “the phenomenon of terrorism while enabling to think it, understand it to prevent from being stunned every time there is a terror attack”. It will then be about recounting the different events that took place since the 1974 Drugstore Publicis terror attack to nowadays. Rousso adds: “It will be also about anarchist, nationalist, third-world, independence, political terror attacks as well as the recent jihadist terror attacks”. A part of the memorial will display an exhaustive list of French who were killed during the terror attacks that occurred in France and worldwide.
