ABSTRACT
The Memorial Pegasus Museum was established and is run by the Comité du Débarquement (D-Day Commemoration Committee), composed of mayors from the region in Normandy where D-Day and the Battle of Normandy took place. The Committee, a not-for-profit association, was formed in 1946 to honour and perpetuate the history of the D-Day Landings and the Battle of Normandy. The museum, dedicated as a memorial to the British 6th Airborne Division that spearheaded the Normandy Invasion, has evolved from a relatively unknown museum into one of the most visited and internationally recognized establishments of Normandy’s war heritage in north western France (see Figure 9.1).
