Deconstruct prejudices on the trenches.
Until August 15, 2022, the Museum of the Great War in Meaux is devoting its new
Trenches
exhibition to these dug, consolidated ditches which were the daily life of soldiers in the First World War.
Three hundred objects, partly from its museum reserve, bear witness to the living conditions of the Poilus.
“The trenches were not born during the Great War.
With this exhibition we come back to this prejudice and explain this system”, explains Aurélie Perreten, director of the museum.
Indeed the word trench is associated with the First World War, and with a creation of these in 1914. In order to overcome this prejudice, from the beginning of the visit a painting by the artist Isidore Pils dating from 1855 shows soldiers in a trench during the Crimean War in Sevastopol.
The exhibition focuses on the specificities of the trenches during the Great War where they multiply, specialize (surveillance, first aid station, firing station for machine guns), etc.
What the historian François Cochet calls the “trench system”.
A real trench to visit in 2024
The exhibition is organized by theme, we discover a room called "Guetter" where are presented in particular armor plates and periscopes.
The museum has also installed “True or False” throughout the visit.
"We chose a rather contemporary approach while offering mediation for the youngest," explains Johanne Berlemont, head of the museum's conservation department.
From 2023, the Museum of the Great War will exhibit two wagons dating from 1914 and in 2024, a real trench will be open to the public.
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