Trip competition
The trip Competition In the Footsteps of Napoleon on St. Helena is open from 6 April 2016 and will close on 24 July 2016.Use the iPad provided at the entrance of the special exhibition Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène and complete the questionnaire in order to enter the competition and get a chance for you and a friend to win a trip to St Helena.
> Competition rules
Exhibition catalogue
Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène. La conquête de la mémoireThe exhibition catalogue published by Editions Gallimard is on sale at the museum’s library.
On 18 June 1815, the Battle of Waterloo sounded the death knell of the French Empire. The defeated Napoleon was exiled. Great Britain decided on the Emperor’s last residence: St Helena, a small island bristling with jagged contours in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Napoleon disembarked on the island with his most faithful companions and settled at Longwood House, a modest residence to say the least, where he would end his days in 1821.
The catalogue is dedicated to the special exhibition Napoléon à Sainte-Hélène organized by the musée de l’Armée that presents, for the first time in France, pieces of furniture from Longwood House, recently restored under the direction of the Musée National des Châteaux de Malmaison et Bois-Préau, the property & logistics department and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Development. The catalogue is structured in two sections. The first section consists of fourteen essays written by specialists about the everyday life of the defeated emperor. The second section presents the various rooms of Longwood House through artefacts, furniture and objects.
Visit booklet
Adults booklet
A booklet is avalaible at the begining of the exhibition.
> Download the visit booklet of the exhibition (PDF - 1,7Mo)
Young visitors booklet
A booklet, for young visitors, is avalaible (in french and in english) at the begining of the exhibition and downloadable on this website:
> Download the young visitors booklet of the exhibition (PDF - 6,4Mo)