The Museum of Aubagne

Medals on display at the museum.

Wooden hand of Captain Jean Danjou.

The ground floor is articulated around the Salle d'Honneur (Honorary Hall). This Honorary Hall is the passing cornerstone of all Legionnaires. This Honorary Hall is engraved with the names of all Legion Officers who died for France. This Salle d'Honneur conserves the wooden hand of Legion Officer Captain Danjou, relic of the Legion, presented to the troops of men during the solemn ceremony of Camarón, on 30 April.

The ground floor also features the decorations hall as well as the museum boutique store.

The first floor features the battle campaigns hall, organized within a chronological order and occupies in space the entire floor, through displays, with different époques as well as the different conflicts throughout the course which the Legion illustrated capability.

The courtyard of the museum is occupied with tanks and cannons types belonging to different campaign eras and also house a couple of tombstones, brought forth from far away distant campaigns. The back of the Museum, giving on the arms place (French: Place d'armes) of the 1st Foreign Regiment 1^er RE, opens on the Monument morts de la Legion, grand sculpture Pourquet (French: Pourquet), representing a world map guarded by four legionnaires and inaugurated in 1931 during the centennial commemoration of the Legion at Sidi bel-Abbès. This entire world map sculpture was entirely demounted to be transported during the move of 1962.

The Legionnaire Uniform Museum

Hailing from a private collection, the legionnaire uniform museum is an extension of the Legion museum delocalized at the corps of the Institution des Invalides de la Legion Etrangere. The museum regroups 120 mannequin, illustrating the evolutions of the uniforms since the creation of the Foreign Legion in 1831 until the modern presently époque.

Unique Museum in the world, set-up required numerous years of work on behalf of a passionate individual to refit and place all the pieces of equipment.

Center of documentation

The center of documentation, directed by the adjoint of the conserving authority of the Museum, is a working space allowing research historians, authors, conference delegates and scholars to pour themselves into the depth of documentaries housed by the Legion.

Strong with more than 4500 books and 10 000 iconic pieces, the center of documentation has for vocation to ground and treat all the media inventory of the Institution.

Consultations have lieu under the authorization of the général Commandant of the Legion.

Salle d'Honneur;

Each Legion regiment houses a regimental Salle d'Honneur (Regimental Honorary Hall), in form of a museum, along with a regimental memorial dedicated to the respectful regiment.

Uniforms

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  1^re Classe Legionnaire tambour du 3^e REI – 1931–1939 – Morocco
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  Lieutenant de la batterie de marche du 4th Foreign Infantry Regiment, 4^e REI – 1934 – Morocco
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  Adjudant du 1^er REC – 1944–1945 – campagne de France et Allemagne

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  Sergeant de la batterie saharienne portée – Sahara – 1939–1940 (Mounted Saharan Battery)
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  Légionnaire of the 13^e DBLE
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  Sergeant du Corps expéditionnaire français en Extrême-Orient – 1949–1952

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  Légionnaire of the Saharan Mounted Companies of the Legion CSPL
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  Lieutenant of the 13^e DBLE – North Africa – 1942–1943
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  Sergent-chef porte-fanion au 3^e REI – 1952–1954 – Indochina

Regimental Salle d'Honneur

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  Salle d'Honneur of the CEPs, BEPs, and REPs at Camp Raffalli in Corsica of 2^e REP.