The aim of Normandie Mémoire is to enhance the region’s cultural, educational and tourist resources by organising, co-ordinating and promoting the operation and development of sites, museums and events that are linked in some way to D-Day, the Battle of Normandy, the heroic deeds of the Resistance or the memory of the martyrs of Nazi Occupation and the civilian victims of the Liberation.

Its purpose is to lead any action developing the Historical Area of the Battle of Normandy, to encourage the local actors to take part in the improvement of the whole attractiveness of museums and sites, to combine the means to assure the historical truth in all the evocations of the Battle of Normandy, to favour the deepening of historical researches and museum researches.