Top Things to do in Ain
Top Hotels in Ain
- 1. Hotel Le Divona
- 2. Hotel Premiere Classe Geneve Aeroport Prevessin
- 3. Premiere Classe Bourg-En-Bresse - Ainterexpo Hotel
- 4. Domaine de Divonne
- 5. Hotel Du Moulin De La Brevette
- 6. Hotel Mercure Bourg En Bresse
- 7. Jiva Hill Resort
- 8. Zenitude Hotel-Residences L’Oree du Parc
- 9. Ibis Budget Geneve Saint Genis Pouilly
- 10. Best Western Hotel De France
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Things to do in Ain, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes: The Best History Museums
Discover the best top things to do in Ain, France including Musee de la Resistance et de la Deportation, Maison d’Izieu, Museum of Bugey-Valromey, Musee de la Mecanographie, Musee du Vieux Perouges, Musee archeologique d'Izernore.
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1. Musee de la Resistance et de la Deportation
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5.0 based on 12 reviews
2. Maison d’Izieu
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4.5 based on 62 reviews
Maison d’Izieu, Memorial to the Exterminated Jewish Children In the heart of the Bugey, in the South of the Ain department, the Maison d’Izieu is located only 35 minutes from Chambéry and Bourgoin-Jallieu, 1 hour from Lyon, Bourg-en-Bresse, Grenoble or Annecy. A unique place of remembrance in France and Europe, it is the first place in remembrance of the children in the Shoah established in France in 1994. The Maison d’Izieu was opened by Sabine and Miron Zlatin and welcomed more than a hundred Jewish children from May 1943 to April 1944 in order to help them escape anti-Semitic persecution. On the morning of 6th April 1944 the 44 children and 7 educators who were there were rounded up and deported under Klaus Barbie’s orders, one of the leaders of the Lyon Gestapo. Today it is a place of remembrance, education and life in order to understand crimes against humanity and to act against all forms of discrimination. The memorial and its permanent exhibition make a complex contemporary
3. Museum of Bugey-Valromey
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4.5 based on 4 reviews
4. Musee de la Mecanographie
5. Musee du Vieux Perouges
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3.5 based on 27 reviews
In a magnificent building of the Princes of Savoy (14th - 15th centuries), the visitor immerses himself in the local history and culture. From the product of archaeological excavations to contemporary art exhibitions, the path of the museum of old Perouges illustrates different facets of everyday life and craft: old bressan furniture, household items, faience of Meillonas, medieval gardens.
