Museum paying tribute to the resistance and liberation of the region. Models, photos and objects retrace the Glières battles.
Next to the Nécropole Nationale - where 105 members of the Resistance are buried, including more than 80 of the 129 killed on the Glières site in 1944 - is the Musée de la Résistance, the historical memory of the Glières site and the Haute-Savoie region. An alpine chalet dating from 1794, rebuilt and donated by the commune of Thônes to the Association des Rescapés des Glières. In 1964, it created a place to pay tribute to the maquisards, and to gather together the memories and documentation it kept. It became a departmental museum in 1978, covering the successive periods of the global conflict right up to the liberation of the department in August 1944. The Conseil Général's "Memory and Citizenship" department has equipped the museum with interactive terminals and a projection room. On the second floor, numerous posters and newspapers from the period recount events and life under occupation, as well as a chronology of the two successive occupations. On the second floor, models, photos and objects retrace the Glières battles - the Glières plateau and the Morette site, the repression that followed and the liberation. In the basement of the chalet, the remains of the former cemetery have been laid out for families.
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