Recently restored, the Museum of the Resistance and Deportation of Besançon is one of the most important in France. Visitors can discover impressive collections, including a deportation art collection with more than 600 paintings, statues and drawings created in prisons and concentration camps during the Second World War.
Opened in 1971, the Besançon Museum of Resistance and Deportation offers a real dive into the history of the Second World War, revealing unique exhibition spaces in Europe. Temporary thematic exhibitions are also regularly offered there.