Towards the closing of the Quinéville Memorial?
The Mémorial de la Liberté retrouvée, inaugurated in 2005, has suffered from the drop in tourist numbers.
4 December 2016: Le Mémorial is looking for a buyer
Author: Kevin Verger
Source: Ouest-France
For the time being, the Quinéville Memorial will not be reopening for the season next spring, its managers have announced.
‘Open for twelve years, the Mémorial de la Liberté retrouvée, which has welcomed 220,000 visitors since 2005, has unfortunately fallen victim this year, like so many other sites in France, to the drop in tourist numbers’, announce the managers, Luc and Marc Braeuer, who are closing the Memorial.
‘We waited a long time for a buyer who was interested in the whole site’, they continue. But in the end it didn’t happen. ‘The Montebourg Community of Municipalities and the Departmental Council, who were alerted to the seriousness of the situation in mid-July, did not even reply to the letter sent to them’, they add with regret.
As a result, the collections ‘will be auctioned off in March’, but ‘the museum could continue with a new manager as early as next year’.
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