Excellent museum on WWI with a focus in the Battle of the Somme. Be sure to get the combo ticket that allows for entry to this museum and the one in Peronne. Both are very well done. Bring hands free headphones for your cell phone and you can use the free wifi to then scan the QR codes in the museum which feature actors in period gear telling the stories of what happened here (i.e. Battle of the Somme). There's a gift shop on site as well as bathrooms and snack machines. You can visit the Thiepval monument as well afterwards.

When we planned our ittinary to Northern France and the Somme Battlefields we didnt know there was a museum at the Thipval memorial, and a visit to this museum was incidental to the memorial. That said this museum, given its modest size, is excellent. As with most museums is gives the facts and figures and has some personal artifacts etc... but what made this museum truly memorable was the panoramic mural of the first day. The mural depicts the harrowing day of 1 July 1916, hour after hour. Reproduced onto 60 metres of back-lit glass, it provides a panoramic view of the battlefield, a graphic narrative of military operations. insofar as portraying the story of 1 July 2016 is is fantastic (if something showing events so awfull can be described as such). Following the events via the tableau is to be taken from the optimism and preparation to the abject horror of the aftermath via the maelstrom of the battle. This kind of story is so so difficult to portray this does it brilliantly. The sister museum at Perrie is sterile and clinical - something akin to an art gallery and if you have been here I possibly wouldnt bother going there as it lacks context - its clean and airy and nice and as I said like an art gallery. This galleryhere however is stunning and is a surprising highlight of our visit to The Somme.

This is a magnificent memorial to those lost at WW1 battles of the Somme. 72000 names of those lost during the conflict who have know known grave. The scale of the memorial mirrors the scale of loss. It is a very emotive & thought provoking place & is somewhere I will never forget. The visitor centre adjacent to the car park is also worth a visit to get more context & history. We will remember them.

We were here to pay respects to a family ancestor whose names is one of the 73,000 etched into the nearby Thiepval Memorial, rather than visit the museum. Although we did not go into the paid exhibition space of the museum, the free display in the lobby of the museum offers excellent and informative text and images of the Battle of the Somme. The staff are friendly as well. Well worth a visit.