CIC
The CIC, a major partner of the Musée de l’Armée.
CIC Bank has been supporting the culture and heritage programmes at the Musée de l’Armée, Les Invalides, since 2003. In this capacity, it sponsors temporary exhibitions that highlight notable events in the history of France.
With Secret Wars, the history of espionage and secret services is explored for the first time at a major national museum in France, bringing together a number of artefacts that have never been shown to the public. In particular, the CIC has financed two films, one on Enigma (the encryption and decoding machine used by the Germans during the Second World War, the ancestor of the Internet and new technologies), the other, through an animation, tracing the development of secret services from the Second Empire to the end of the Cold War.
By getting involved with this new exhibition, the bank intends to raise awareness, particularly among young people, that knowledge of the past can be a source of confidence for the future.
Directorate-General for External Security
The mission of the Directorate-General for External Security (DGSE), which is attached to the Ministry of Defence, is to research, collect, use and supply to the government, intelligence outside the national territory relating to geopolitical and strategic challenges and the threats and risks likely to affect the life of the nation. It contributes to the knowledge and anticipation of these challenges, and the prevention and obstruction of these risks and threats.
The DGSE is a special, versatile service equipped with all the necessary intelligence gathering methods and its own capacity for action. It has 6,400 agents and an annual budget of around 800 million euros. To meet the expectations of public opinion, the nature and missions of the DGSE need to be explained so that citizens are more familiar with the role of external intelligence. For this reason, the DGSE is proud to support the Secret Wars exhibition, in particular through the loan of around 50 objects and documents in its possession, some of which will be shown to the public for the first time.
ECPAD
ECPAD, the communications and audiovisual production agency for the Ministry of Defence since 1915, owns exceptional audiovisual and photographic archive collections: 12 million negatives and 33,000 film titles. This stock, which is gradually being digitalised, is continually enriched by items produced by military reporters, contributions from Defence bodies and donations from individuals. Under the authority of the Ministry of Defence, ECPAD’s reporting teams, who are trained in operational film shooting, are permanently on standby to obtain first-hand accounts in real time of our army’s engagements in all its theatres of operation. To this end, it produces photo and video reports in France and worldwide, which it makes available to French and foreign media, thus contributing to a better understanding of what the Ministry of Defence does.
As a loyal partner of the Musée de l’Armée, ECPAD’s audiovisual and archive expertise has made a great contribution to the Secret Wars exhibition.
Combined Military Services Museum
The Combined Military Services Museum is a state registered charity that cares for, and displays its collection of British military artefacts to the general public. Its origins date back to 1968, when the now Director Dr Richard Wooldridge as a seven year old child decided he wanted to set up the museum. After 36 year of collecting, and working with the government and Heritage Lottery Fund the museum was finally opened to the public in 2004.
The collections illustrate changes and developments within the British armed forces through a history of equipment and uniforms from medieval times to the present day. Displaying only genuine period pieces of the highest standard the Museum includes many items of international importance.
It holds one of the world’s most comprehensive Spy and Special Forces collections, ranging from uniforms and equipment of the SAS, to the underworlds spy gadgets and weapons from World War Two up until the end of the Cold War, bringing the myths of James Bond firmly into the world of reality.
MM PARK
MM Park is an exhibition unique in Europe, 12km from Strasbourg, which presents over 7000 m2 an enormous collection devoted to the Second World War and its main protagonists: hundreds of waxwork models, armoured vehicles, trucks, light vehicles and motorbikes, personal objects, an aeroplane, a German launchboat floating on the water, etc. The secret services of Free France are also explained through the Sussex Plan collection. Visitors can access and discover an original area with themed games (extra charge) for the young and not-soyoung:
- two unique flight simulators, the first of their kind in the region, a «treetop trail», a shooting stand for compressed air rifles
- a film projection and presentation room (30-seater)
- a fully equipped meeting room (80-seater)
- a shop, bar and small restaurant
Opening autumn 2016
Le parisien
Le Parisien is proud to be a partner of the Secret Wars exhibition this year.
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Le point
Founded in 1972, Le Point is a French general news periodical. It has a weekly circulation of 380,000 and is the bestselling news periodical sold in kiosks. Built on strong journalistic principles - thoroughness, independence, proximity - Le Point targets an influential readership (executives, opinion leaders, high socio-economic categories) and attracts around 2 million readers every week.
Le Point is available in all formats, web, tablet and smartphone. Its readership, all media combined, amounts to around 10 million contacts. Lepoint.fr is a realtime news website with 4.5 million unique monthly online visitors, half via mobile.
Lepoint.fr is one of the ten leading general news websites in France, and in the top five for mobile users.
Historia
The periodical Historia was founded in 1909, making it France’s longest-running history periodical.
With unrivalled brand awareness, the magazine’s appeal has continued down the generations, making it something of a national treasure. For over a century, it has cultivated the telling of history, through the writings of some of the best academic and journalistic talents.
Its mission has always been to make history accessible to the widest possible audience. The staff at Historia work enthusiastically every day to spread their passion for history, knowing that they are the guardians of a title that continues to bring the past to life in order to help us understand the present.
France culture
As a channel that is dedicated to ideas and knowledge, France Culture supports a number of high-level events each year.
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