Film sets, billboards, neon signs... the scenography uses the familiar language of Hollywood and American cities to draw visitors into the history of America between the wars, to help them understand, 80 years later, the America from which the young soldiers who died on the beaches of Normandy on 6 June 1944 during the D-Day landings came. It's not just about the 'American Dream', as the exhibition explores many facets of this America: segregation, the Great Depression, the complex political situation and the response to the Nazi threat - all of these themes are explored on the reverse side of the beautiful images from the beginning of the exhibition. Visitors walk away educated and themselves actors in history. The exhibition's original graphics add real value to the scenographic ambience.
temporary exhibition
surface: 800 sqm
curator: Kléber Arhoul, general director of the Memorial and Clément Fabre, associate scientific curator of history,
exhibition design: bgc studio
graphic design: Fabrice Petithuguenin
lighting: Thierry Anciaux
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