Overview
- The institution will occupy about 3,000 m² inside the disused Lourcine barracks in the 13th arrondissement, sharing the site with Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne.
- The Suresnes plan at Mont-Valérien was abandoned in September after renovation was priced at roughly €95 million.
- Victims’ associations were informed of the decision by the president, and the mission de préfiguration is leading the project with seven ministries and partners including CNRS, INA and the Victims’ Aid Foundation.
- Around 2,500 early collection items are already stored in an ultra-secure reserve in the Paris region, including objects tied to the November 13, 2015 attacks.
- The museum will honor those killed in France and French victims abroad since 1974, featuring a permanent exhibition on terrorism’s history, victims’ voices and societal responses, and a commissioned memorial listing names.