The 101st Airborne Museum is a 3 story inside only museum that chronicles the 101st and its…read moreparticipation in WW2 and in particular The Battle of the Bulge. Admission is 14€ and I would budget around 90 minutes for a visit. There are many life size dioramas in the museum featuring several battle scenes with mannequins demonstrating what life was like in war. Also on display are many original relics from the war some fully restored and some not but all clearly annotated as to what they are. In the basement, is a room that upon entering gives a 5 minute virtual experience using sound and light of being in Bastogne during the German bombardment. I enjoyed my visit to this quality museum and recommend it.

Crazy cool museum! The bombing simulator was awesome! Never expected that type of exhibit. The…read moreexhibitions were so realistic! I highly recommend visiting here for everyone.

A visit to the Bastogne War Museum actually includes admission to 3 locations. I will review each…read moreseparately. I recommend visiting each of the 3 sites in my order of listing below. The Bastogne War Museum is where you should start and buy your adult ticket for 28€. The Yelp location is accurate. It's located just outside of town. The only parking option is a pay lot for 7.50€ for the day next to the museum. Once inside you are given a free audio guide in your language that is very helpful. Use it. This is a very good museum that chronicles all of WW2 not just the Battle of the Bulge. One unique aspect of this museum are 4 video sequences paired each with a life like set that adds realism to the video presentation. I would budget 2.5 hours to visit here which also includes time at the outdoor Mardasson Memorial (separate Yelp review). The facility also has an onsite cafe if you get hungry. I rated this location a 4 and enjoyed my visit. It was better than I expected. The Bois Jacques battlefield is about a 5 minute drive away from the War Museum where you are given tickets for the Bois Jacques battlefield and the War Rooms. At Bois Jacques, this facility is unmanned. It has a free parking lot and you use your ticket from the Museum to scan a QR code at the gate of the battlefield to gain entrance. Bois Jacques is an actual battle site depicted in the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. This is an outdoor visitation so weather plays a factor regarding your visit. Budget 30 minutes for here. I rated this site a 4 also. The Bastogne War Rooms is the third location that your Museum ticket gains you admission into. It is located less than a 10 minute drive from the museum and also has a free parking lot available. It is located very near another good museum called Bastogne Barracks (separate Yelp review) which is NOT affiliated with the War Museum. The War Rooms disappointed me. I found it boring and somewhat difficult to understand and poorly organized. If you attend I would budget 1 hour. Honestly, I would skip it and is why I gave it a 2 score.

If you are going to do a tour you must hire Peter Vansteenkiste who can be reached on facebook and…read moreis the most knowledgeable and interesting guidance have ever used. He is funny and extremely accommodating. He has a new car and picks you up and does not study the clock. We went to this among other locations and followed the Band of Brothers tour list and were awed by the detail and facts he provided. I can't offer a higher recommendation

Excellent museum dedicated to the Metz, France area from Gallo-Roman to Renaissance times!…read more Some of my favorite parts of the museums were the Gallo-Roman baths, the Altar of Mithras, and the medieval painted ceiling with weird "animals." The museum is a bit of maze. However it is thoughtfully organized with the understanding that people can easily get lost. There are guides situated throughout the museum to guide you in a forward direction so that you don't get lost. Be patient. If you don't get to see an adjacent room in the moment, just know that you will get there. There is a time and a place. Located right next to the Cathedral Saint Etienne! Very quiet. Not crowded on a Monday. Small but interesting, and not overwhelming at all. Took me about 2 hours and I tend to linger and sit.

A wonderful museum, with art and artifacts of the Metz region, dating from at least 100 years…read morebefore the time before Christ through present day. Everything was well-displayed and labeled, although most was in French only. We used Google to help us with translations. There are Roman baths, full skeletal remains in graves from an ancient cemetery, fine examples of woodworking, pottery, sculptures, glass, Renaissance paintings, architectural pieces, and much more! 5 euros per ticket, and my husband and I spent a full 3 hours here. We did not finish viewing the whole museum, but no worries. The tickets are good for 24 hours, so we can return to see the last of the exhibits tomorrow.

Bastogne Barrack is a unique and interesting museum to visit while in Bastogne. This museum is all…read moreabout mechanized vehicles used by both the Allies and Axis powers during WW 2. I am talking about not only tanks but also artillery pieces both self propelled and towed, half tracks, freight trucks used to bring troops and materials to the front, jeeps, and anything else that rolled on the ground. Most of the vehicles are US, British, Russian and German. Some of these are stationed outside but most of them are in a large building spit into two parts. Most of them are examples that look fully restored while some of them are still being restored. It is the vehicles in this museum that makes it unique. I appreciated the hard work that someone put into restoring all of these museum pieces. Adult entry fee is 12€ and budget about an hour for your visit. This is a nice museum especially for anyone interested in machinery. Parking info. While parking is free you can't actually park in the campus. Parking is about 200 yards from the entrance on the side of the road. Just follow the signage.

As part of a guided tour of the Battle of the Bulge area with local guide, Henri Mignon, we stopped…read moreat the Barracks to supplement the storyline of this historic battle. If you don't have a guide to explain what you are seeing this could be a disappointment since there is not a lot of descriptions explaining what you are looking at. Perhaps the Barrack's has guided tours? Anyway it is an interesting place and they certainly have the biggest collection of tanks I have ever seen. I've been to many airplane museums in the US but nothing like this collection. Overall an important historical site worth seeing if a guide is available.

Free. Fun to visit, avant-garde exhibits in a modern facility. Popular spot. 5 minute walking…read moredistance from train station. Recommend.

Fantastically amazing exhibits can be found at Centre Pompidou-Metz…read more We had the good fortune to see a visiting exhibit from our hometown in Saarbrücken but it was a lovely blend of French and German art & their influences on each other There was also this excellent exhibit on Oscar Schlemmer & his fun & futuristic ballet costumes Cold as all get out inside the museum.......you'll want to keep your coat with you

We were on a trip through Germany, visiting historic WWII sites, and ventured into France to see…read morethe Maginot Line museum at Fort Schoenenbourg. When we realized how close we were to Verdun, we decided to add a day to visit this area. We weren't sure where to go first, so we thought we'd start here at the Memorial. MOST AMAZING stop ever! This museum is very recently created, as the exhibits were very modern, and had a lot of video and other effects. All the exhibits offered multiple languages (English, French, German) and had great content. The displays were all around you - there were areas with glass floors with displays underneath, displays that you could walk on to view, etc. We were there easily 2+ hours, and could have stayed longer except that we had a lot of Verdun to see in a day! One plus - free parking!! One minus - not the greatest gift shop, just a modest display of some books for sale. I would highly recommend a stop here - it is a museum that can be appreciated by children as well as adults. Also, in the area around the museum along the road there are areas with trenches that you can walk through, and sites up in the trees that you can park roadside and walk to as well which were very interesting. The terrain is very unusual - the bomb craters are very visible even today. So keep your eyes open for those!

Nice place to see the trenches in real size. We got a…read morepersonal guided tour. They used/ reused some original WW1 parts to rebuild the trenches. Definitely worth visiting.

From the owner: Située sur le champ de bataille de Verdun, la Tranchée de Chattancourt est un lieu unique en son…read moregenre. Reconstituée à proximité de l'endroit où se croisaient les tranchées de Toulouse et de Chattancourt en 1916, ce lieu permet au visiteur de se replonger dans la peau du Poilu. Une expérience incroyable qui vous permettra d'avoir une autre vision sur la Grande Guerre.