Utah Beach Landing Museum
Musée du Débarquement d'Utah Beach
A museum built into a former German strongpoint, displaying an original B-26 bomber and landing craft and telling the full story of the Utah Beach landings.
Utah Beach was the landing site of the US 4th Infantry Division. Because the troops came ashore away from their intended location, they met weaker resistance, and it had the fewest casualties of the five landing beaches. The Utah Beach Landing Museum is built on a former German resistance position. It displays a rare original B-26 'Marauder' bomber, Higgins landing craft, amphibious vehicles and films that trace the whole process from planning to landing. Memorials stand among the dunes outside, and visitors can also walk down to the beach. Admission is about 10 euros. Opening hours are shorter in winter, and the museum may close in January.
Opening hours
Approx. 09:30–18:00 (until 19:00 in summer; shorter in winter)
Nearby sights
- D-Day Experience & Dead Man's Corner Museum
- Sainte-Mère-Église & Airborne Museum
- La Cambe German War Cemetery
- Pointe du Hoc
- Omaha Beach & Normandy American Cemetery
- Overlord Museum
- Port-en-Bessin
- Memorial Museum of the Battle of Normandy & Bayeux War Cemetery