Museum of the Resistance - Lys Brigade
Resort: Perloz
The museum is open every Sunday in July and August from 2.00pm to 6.00pm
For groups, reservation is recommended.
For group visits on other dates you can book at the Municipality, by sending an email, or to the numbers in the "contact" section
The visit is free
The Museum, inaugurated in its new headquarters on 25 April 2001 25 April 2008, is housed in the headquarters of Loc. Capoluogo inside the historic building that was the home, immediately after the war, of the first partisan band active in the lower Valle d’Aosta, the Brigata Lys protagonist in 1943 of the first resistance action in the Lower Valley, in the more general context of the war and the struggle for Liberation in the Aosta Valley.
Relics, uniforms, helmets, clothing, flags, topographic maps, weapons, objects of various kinds are suitably combined with precious documentary, photographic and iconographic material, enhanced thanks to multimedia technologies and new and engaging communication methods. The Documentation Center set up in the Museum itself is equipped with publications, videos, CDs, cassettes, manuscripts and archival documents. A film on the Resistance in the Aosta Valley and Perloz, as well as multilingual audioguides, enrich the museum experience. They tell the story of the museum and accompany visitors in a path of discovery of the permanent collection.
Visits on reservation by contacting the Municipality at the phone numbers indicated in the “Contacts” section.
Les Chemins de la Liberté
Along with the museum, it is possible to find out about places of partisan fights along the route that starts from Plan de Burn as far as the hamlet of Marine; the path takes about one hour.