French Foreign Legion Museum

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The Foreign Legion Museum (French: Musée de la Légion étrangère) located in Aubagne, France, represents the history and "arms history" achievements of the Foreign Legion through the race of various collections and exhibitions. The museum welcomes numerical visitors (almost 25,000 per year), as well as students and temporal exhibitions.

History: The museum is the heir of the Hall of Honour of the 1st Foreign 1st RE created in 1892 at Sidi bel-Abbès, in Algeria. That Salle d'Honneur assumed the current designation on 11 November 1935. During the repatriation of the Legion back to metropolis, the series collections joined France, since 1962. However, in account with delay installations and construction of the new structures (French: buildings) at Camp de la Demande, the first stone (French: 1st Pierre), under the precedent of Pierre Messmer, minister of the Armies took place in 1964 and the Museum opened doors on 30 April 1966. In 2003, the Museum was restructured; on another hand, the new organization implemented the creation of support structures. The Society of Friends of the Foreign Legion Museum (SAMLE) (French: Société des...