MUME - Museo Memorial del Exilio Info and Reviews

Positive experience: Correct museum about exile
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting and moving
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Fantastic experience: Striking, sad, but more realistic. It shows the history that books do not tell about exiles and Catalans dangerous for fascism.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful and interesting discovery.
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Fantastic experience: If you are around here, it is advisable to visit it
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Fantastic experience: It is closed on December 25 and 26. Although modern, the space is limited and serves its purpose. Many temporary exhibitions and presentations make the place very active. There is also an audiovisual room. The bookstore is highly specialized in the theme.
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Positive experience: Too little for what the exile was. A 10 nonetheless for the grains of sand!
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting. Very good audiovisual explanation of the exile.
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Positive experience: It was closed, I passed by on Sunday and found it closed, but the city is interesting, they sell good fruit and it's cheap.
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Fantastic experience: Beautiful, the visit was very enriching
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Fantastic experience: A fantastic place to learn about a part of our history that must be known and not forgotten so that it does not happen again
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Fantastic experience: Very, very interesting. The guide Monica knows her subject well, very professional. Thank you, Ms.
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Fantastic experience: Interesting
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Fantastic experience: Super discovery....if one can say so ....because the museum is so well 'made' that it is truly captivating to discover. We are immersed in this drama....one more! Very good welcome at the entrance by a charming person. Inexpensive outing to do!
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Fantastic experience: An immersive space in the experience of exiles, not only that of the Catalan and Spanish Republicans in 1939. With a profusion of images, testimonies, and a very insightful interpretation that makes the visit a high-level educational experience.
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Fantastic experience: A must-visit museum in memory of all the people and families who have suffered exile... harsh but welcoming at the same time. Don't miss the visit to the bunkers and the guided tour of the museum, exceptional! We will return.
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Positive experience: Good museum, more real objects would be nice.
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Fantastic experience: Very informative museum
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Fantastic experience: Moving museum with stories that are not very well known. Spain's own Holocaust and Catalans who were sent to camps in France. Franco's period... a must-see. You get an audio guide (English, French, German, Spanish)... all signs are in Catalan.

Fantastic experience: Important center of historical memory, focused on the republican exile, after the defeat in the Spanish Civil War, but without neglecting other exiles-refugees from recent wars, e.g., in the Balkans...
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Fantastic experience: Very well explained and very educational. It addresses exile from the most human perspective. For a democratic culture, it is a must-visit
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Positive experience: Very well explained and presented!
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Fantastic experience: Very informative about a period not very explained outside the museum
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting to learn about the history of all these people who suffered fascism and exile
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Fantastic experience: A great job of recovering historical memory. Very well done. Highly recommend visiting it.
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Positive experience: Very moving places of memory that raise awareness of the suffering of an entire people and the unglorious behavior of France. No dedicated parking. Guided tour with headphones.
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Fantastic experience: If you are in the area, don't hesitate to visit this museum. Although it is small, it offers a very interesting view of exile. In our case, we took advantage of the guided tour on the last Sunday of the month and it was a success. The guide, Sonia, made the visit very enjoyable and educational. Additionally, it is combined with a visit to the bunkers which is worth it. A must-see in the area.
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Fantastic experience: The museum brings together the objects and photographs of the people who escaped the terror of the Spanish Civil War. It is both interesting and striking to see in the images the pain and suffering of the people of that time. Unfortunately, we do not learn from history and continue to experience wars in different parts of the world.
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Positive experience: Very interesting. To raise awareness of what those who decided to go into exile had to go through.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting museum dedicated to the Spanish Civil War, interesting exhibition with photos and videos from witnesses. It is located on the border with France, where refugees mainly fled from the Franco regime. I recommend visiting it, preferably with a guide.
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Fantastic experience: place that all young people should visit
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Fantastic experience: A very interesting museum. The guide also did her job very well.
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Fantastic experience: A museum where photos, documents, and everyday objects of thousands of Spanish refugees are showcased through a two-story path. For those who wish to discover this part of history and for those whose family member passed through this route in La Jonquera. Temporary exhibition on the ground floor.
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Fantastic experience: It is very good to not forget the historical memory and all the horror that the refugees went through and those who were taken to the extermination camps of Mauthausen, 100% recommended
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting, remembering the exile of so many people and how they lived it makes one think, it should never have happened. I recommend it. There are stories of exiles who returned.
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Fantastic experience: Recommended, and the best is the guide Leo, very professional
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Fantastic experience: This place is well worth a visit, and especially to stop and chat with the staff, who are very friendly and knowledgeable about the subject and the published bibliography regarding exile and concentration camps.
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Fantastic experience: Very beautiful historical day, beautiful archives
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Fantastic experience: Goosebumps!!! There’s no need to say more.
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Fantastic experience: Interesting museum about exile. Highly recommended, I also recommend taking an exile route.
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Fantastic experience: Impressive, modern, with a very well-stocked library and well-maintained audiovisual media.
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Fantastic experience: As interesting as it is impactful. It is well worth it. It makes you aware of the suffering of people who could be our own family members.
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Fantastic experience: A very good Museum
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Fantastic experience: A cultural morning to not forget the atrocities of fascism and its collusion with dictator Franco.
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Fantastic experience: Very beautiful memorial museum to never forget ...
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Positive experience: Really great museum, you learn a lot, some works of art are displayed, it allows you to take a step back on the civil wars and the war in Spain. I absolutely recommend it! (A lot of tourists in Jonquera during the summer, plan for time to find a parking spot ;)
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Positive experience: Modern museum, which following the most modern museological techniques [panels, installed spaces, showcases with historical documents, video presentations, and audio guides in various languages], clearly shows the visitor the social and historical reality of the Spanish Civil War (1936-39) battle fronts, exiles and their destinies, concentration camps in France and Germany... They also have a Shop (bookstore and Souvenirs)
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Positive experience: A museum that should be a must-visit for schools yet is too unknown.
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Positive experience: Educational but very hard to look at some photos
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Fantastic experience: It is a historic place, it is quite cool, in that place they have things about the Spanish Civil War and it can be very interesting for people who want to go see about the context of the Spanish Civil War.
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Positive experience: This place teaches us Spanish history and why the people exiled to France.
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Fantastic experience: A beautiful place to remember a sad moment in Spanish and world history.
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Fantastic experience: A truly moving place, where emotion surrounds you. And if you still have your mother telling you what the faces of the anonymous people in the photographs reflect. Let us never forget, especially for them, for our elderly. Totally recommended, and then do the exile route.
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Fantastic experience: Highly recommended place to minimally understand what forced exile of people is and their traumatic experience, unfortunately still quite current in our world...
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Positive experience: Interesting to learn about the history
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting visit to learn about the horrors of all exiles, in this case the past ones.
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Fantastic experience: A place to visit and without any rush. Everyone should visit it to see what a war is.
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Positive experience: The ticket costs 4€
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Fantastic experience: Today, the opening of the exhibition Women of the Exile. Super, super great! Don't miss it!
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Fantastic experience: The story must not be forgotten
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Fantastic experience: We were positively surprised, the exhibition is very well done.
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Positive experience: Interesante exposición muy bien montada
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Fantastic experience: Falta que el gobierno Español cree uno igual o mejor para recordar la retirada. Debe de dar mucha vergüenza, para que solo en cataluña se recuerde...
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Positive experience: The Museum of Exile, located in the municipality of La Junquera, delighted me. The visit was very interesting and the explanations given by the guides were very easy to understand and enjoyable.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting museum and in the right place. You should go at least once in your lifetime. It's important to know the past and the experiences our ancestors had to live through. People of all ages can learn something. The Robert Capa exhibition is really cool!
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Fantastic experience: A museum that everyone should visit, especially young generations, both to know where we come from and to understand that our ancestors lived situations similar to those of many people today... perhaps this way things would go differently... subtle and special the exhibition 'Casadesus-Clapes' should remain permanent to bring poetry and humanity to harsh reality.
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Fantastic experience: The necessary remembrance of our history.
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Fantastic experience: Nice place, well designed, very good reception
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Fantastic experience: We need to see it ALL, it will make us REFLECT and decide accordingly what we think in the future
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Fantastic experience: Spectacular place, with many pictures about exile and concentration camps, with documentation.
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Positive experience: Very quiet and recommended to visit.
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Fantastic experience: A must see for those who know something and nothing of the Spanish Civil War

Fantastic experience: Museum that documents well the situation that the exiles lived. All the material they present is very interesting. We were able to see the exhibition of photographs by Frank Kappa, which is a perfect complement.
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Fantastic experience: A very, very interesting museum. It's important to know where we come from and where we're going.
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Fantastic experience: Essential for not forgetting and refreshing the memory of the barbarity of the Civil War. Very well organized. Also, until December there is a photography exhibition by Robert Capa.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting from both a historical and museological point of view. Don't miss it.
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Fantastic experience: A place of worship for every Republican who enjoys history
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Fantastic experience: Magnificent museum to remember our most recent history!
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Positive experience: A very interesting experience to remember transcendent events in our history.
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Fantastic experience: A complete tribute to all those victims of the feuxusta war who had to choose exile. Moving. Don't miss it, it is part of our history, largely stolen and erased.
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Positive experience: Small interpretation center of exile. Very interesting!!! Highly recommended!!!! Great photos and videos!!! Perhaps more cartography of the ''paths of exile'' would be needed. Just one recommendation, which comes from a conversation with my 8-year-old daughter: "mom, the videos were hard to understand, they are difficult for me. Why are there no videos for small people?". Perhaps some panels, comics, drawings, and videos aimed at an audience under 12 would be necessary.
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Positive experience: Museum that recalls and documents the exile of Catalans and Spaniards who fled during the Civil War and the subsequent dictatorship. Brief chronological historical summary of that era, documented with original materials from specific cases. Perhaps too much emphasis on general political aspects and less on the repression and inhumanity of French internment camps (Argelès, Rivesaltes, etc.). Forgetting is a necessity of humanity, and it seems that recent and ongoing wars do not appear to allow society to progress.
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Fantastic experience: A museum that makes you put yourself in the shoes of the thousands of exiles
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Fantastic experience: Very educational museum with a lot of information about the republican exile and the Spanish Civil War. Specialized store in books on this topic. Quality activities to delve into the subject in a real way.
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Fantastic experience: More memorial spaces like this are needed. It must not be forgotten. The guide was spectacular, I left with goosebumps.
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Positive experience: The collective memory of the republicans forced into exile
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Fantastic experience: Everyone should visit it, we are losing a very important memory
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Fantastic experience: Highly recommended!!
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Positive experience: Very well presented and very well explained. Very emotional.
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Positive experience: A very nice museum, with several elements of diverse and varied exhibitions, not focusing on a particular exile but addressing several, the guides are very, very good!
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Fantastic experience: Passionate guide about their topic and good pedagogy.
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Fantastic experience: The staff working there is very attentive. The exhibition is very interesting. A must-visit if you have the opportunity. As for the tramuntana... no comments...;P
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Positive experience: The museum promises to tell something about refugees. It has been remodeled with a lot of money. A fictional story about the resistance in Catalonia and its heroes who had to flee is told. Refugees are somewhat overlooked, and I do not understand why the museum received EU funding. The museum again attributes blame to one party for past wrongs, justifying the other side to commit further wrongs. The refugees are in any case the victims, and it does not matter who has won and who writes history today.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting and well presented/modern information. I knew about the Spanish civil war but not the Diaspora resulting from it.

Positive experience: Interesting museum. It is a picture from a horrible time. History repertoire in Ukraine. People, young and old have to flee.

Fantastic experience: It's a matter of not losing historical memory
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Positive experience: A must-visit to understand our history and also our present. Highly recommended.
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Fantastic experience: It is nice to learn about the history of this country that some want to cover up.
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Fantastic experience: Impactful memorial space to remember those who had to flee the country.
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Fantastic experience: You have to visit it to learn more about what caused the civil war.
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Fantastic experience: I recommend visiting. Very well-set museum to remember everything about the Civil War and the Second War. Highlights the great work done in setting up the museum.
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Fantastic experience: Idyllic place, in the center of a small city that is already full of history.
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Positive experience: It has been a very good experience. Some things already known and others not. Very well presented. Too bad there were not enough chairs. I wasn't feeling well and I only found some cubes that were too high to sit and take a break. Other than that, everything was great.
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Positive experience: Very complete museum. The visit is prepared to take about 1:30h. What I liked the most were definitely all the photographs and images, including those that I found to be a mother suffering the loss of her husband and the other about the 'NO-meeting' between two of the greatest dictators left by history, Hitler and Franco. Also, Sònia, our guide, did an incredible job and taught us many things and answered all our questions.
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Fantastic experience: Place to help us not forget the horrors of men
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Fantastic experience: Cultural center of interest
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Fantastic experience: Essential for knowing our past. To give a voice to the defeated! A 10!!
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Positive experience: I have liked knowing how we were treated by the French, and now we, with those fleeing their countries, do the same.
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Positive experience: Museum and photographic space about exile. Modest but not therefore uncomprehensible and very graphic. Recommended.
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Fantastic experience: Highly recommended. A space for memory, so as not to ever forget.
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Positive experience: A very interesting site even though one can regret that all the display is only in Catalan (and I am absolutely not Catalanophobic).
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Positive experience: Interesting history museum about the civil war in Catalonia.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting despite the topic of exile. Very educational. Good presentation of documents, photos, letters, etc. I recommend it to understand this period of the Spanish Civil War. With an opening on the coup d'état in Chile.
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Fantastic experience: Exhibitions, photo in film about the camps during World War II

Fantastic experience: Unfortunately, it is a necessary museum; exile is not a thing of the past, it remains a reality of the 21st century. Don't miss it if you're in the area.
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Positive experience: Unknown museum to everyone that is worth visiting. I missed a guide.
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Fantastic experience: An excellent museum, it is an essential tool for democracy.
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Positive experience: Visit to the museum highly recommended and now the exhibition of Antoni Campañà is a true treasure of the exile.
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Fantastic experience: A good space in the democratic memory of our recent past
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Fantastic experience: Beautiful museum located in the center of the village that collects a large amount of material related to exile. It has 2 floors and a ground floor with a lot of audiovisual training and original exhibits such as letters, postcards, fabrics, flags, car fragments among others. The entrance is very inexpensive and it is worth knowing a little more about our history and how they fought to survive. Highly recommended if you are in the area.
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Positive experience: Very interesting, very well documented, a small museum but it's good.
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Fantastic experience: I recommend seeing it, it's very interesting
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Fantastic experience: Small, but very comprehensive and interesting museum about the tragic episode of exile during the Spanish Civil War and the crossing of the border with France
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Fantastic experience: We all should visit this historic museum of exile, it is our past, it is part of our history and hopefully we never forget the suffering of so many families, forced to leave everything and flee to other countries because of Francoist repression, their torture and murders. Let us never forget it.
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Fantastic experience: I loved it, beautiful.
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Positive experience: A museum full of stories that have never been told, filled with memories of people who lost their lives during and after the civil war, both in the war itself and later in concentration camps.
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Fantastic experience: A museum that is essential to visit in order not to forget our recent history. And some very interesting temporary exhibitions.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting visit for those interested in the Retirada and, more broadly, in exile and migrants. At the entrance, two images of the Retirada and current migrants overlap, showing the permanence of this phenomenon. The highlight is the guided tour that needs to be booked for the last Sunday of each month at 11 am, which is free!
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Fantastic experience: A must-visit for Democrats.
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Positive experience: Very interesting place, everyone should visit.
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Fantastic experience: It is important that we remember the mistakes of the past. Thanks to the MUME we have been able to see how cruel people are.
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Fantastic experience: Bravo for this insight into this lesser-known part of history in France
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Fantastic experience: As a good Catalan, when it has to go, neither forgetfulness nor forgiveness
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting and very important to remember those who had to leave for their ideas. NEVER AGAIN
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Fantastic experience: It's a brutal experience, highly recommended for the new generations, so that the stories of the exiles' hardships are not forgotten and do not happen again.
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Positive experience: It is not well located on google maps
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Fantastic experience: They manage to make you feel what it is to cross the border leaving behind family, homeland, and ideals, losing freedom.
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Fantastic experience: Documentation center of the Retirada. Essential for the general public and scholars.
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Fantastic experience: excellent tour in the guided exhibition
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Positive experience: A place where you can feel the suffering of war exiles. It makes you see that today there are politicians and media who use the term "exile" and "exiled" lightly, without being aware of what it really means. I recommend that they first visit this museum and then reconsider their words.
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Fantastic experience: Very good museum! Made with the audio guide.
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Fantastic experience: Very well done, it clearly explains why and how, fosters understanding
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Fantastic experience: A great museum with a great history
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Fantastic experience: A place that tells a terrible story that we must never forget so that it does not happen again.
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Fantastic experience: The guided tour was excellent. It is highly recommended.
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Fantastic experience: Very useful for understanding the republican exile in all its depth.
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Fantastic experience: A must-visit to understand this episode of recent history. Sonia, an excellent guide who accompanied us during the visit, is worth listening to. There are audioguides as well.
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Fantastic experience: Free and friendly staff
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Fantastic experience: Highly necessary museum. Objects, photographs... pleasant and very enriching tour
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Fantastic experience: It is important to visit the MUME to learn from the past and build a better future than the present
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Fantastic experience: For the great information on historical memory
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Positive experience: A must-visit place if you want to know where we come from and where we should never return.
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Fantastic experience: Worth a visit.
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Fantastic experience: A museum dedicated to the memories of so many people who died at the dirty hands of fascism. Worth visiting.

Positive experience: Interesting to learn a little more about Our History
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Positive experience: Small but it is good and very good information
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Fantastic experience: good place for recreation
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Fantastic experience: A sad story that needs to be known
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Fantastic experience: One of those essential sites to keep historical memory alive and a part of our culture.
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Positive experience: It's fine
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Fantastic experience: The photographs are spectacular and have very good preserved original documentation of letters, ID cards, and a long etc. of exiles and victims of Nazi and French concentration camps. The audiovisuals are very good and there is a 15-minute video of survivor testimonies. Also, very cheap. And the bookstore at the entrance features unpublished books.
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Fantastic experience: A must-visit to understand the hardships of war.
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Fantastic experience: Essential. Remembering the 80th anniversary of the Spanish Exile
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Fantastic experience: A must-visit to remember painful moments of our recent history. We should learn from it!
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Fantastic experience: One of the best places, without a doubt, to preserve memory in a didactic yet rigorous way. A must-visit for anyone interested in the Spanish Republican exile or, even more, for those who know nothing about it, as guided information emerges in each room. It contains photos, maps, explanations, period objects, and an interesting library at the end of the visit, where one can browse and buy some volumes related to the topic. I wish there were more of these in the Spanish state.
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Fantastic experience: Excellent museum that captures the experience of the exiles perfectly in art, artifacts, and stories. 100% worth the money with options for narration in many languages. Would highly highly recommend if you are in the area at all, even worth going out of your way for. Would not give this a miss.

Fantastic experience: It is very interesting to remember what our parents went through.
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Fantastic experience: It is a must-visit museum, for democratic hygiene and respect for human rights!!!!
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Fantastic experience: A very instructive experience.
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Fantastic experience: Excellent museum, great service, interesting audiovisuals, and full of basic information to understand the whole situation. I would return without hesitation
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Fantastic experience: Everyone should go there, build a future knowing the past
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting 1-hour guided tour of the museum, very visual with explanations and also audio guides.
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Positive experience: Exhibition 130 years UGT
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Fantastic experience: Very enriching, a must-visit to understand the past and the present
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Fantastic experience: The memory museum is very interesting. A must-see if you want to know about the history of Spain and Catalonia. All schools should visit to ensure we do not forget and it never happens again. The commented videos are very interesting, and each photograph should be looked at (not just seen). One of the must-stop places to take the exile route.
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Fantastic experience: Memory is our salvation
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Fantastic experience: The most startling month of all, the silence.
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Fantastic experience: You can't miss it
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Fantastic experience: Very cool and impactful, it really makes you see what happened
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Fantastic experience: It's okay because it's cheap. Simple and small. Without pretensions. But they put love into it and that shows.
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Positive experience: Good, but few explanations in French and Spanish, important languages in this region.
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Positive experience: Great museum dedicated to the only 14 days when the border was open between the fall of Barcelona city under Franco's troops' control and when Franco's troops arrived at the French border, closing it to people who tried to leave the dictatorial Franco period. That was from January 26, 1936 to February 10, 1936.

Fantastic experience: Maintaining memory is essential
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Fantastic experience: Excellent view of the Spanish Civil War and its consequences: death, repression, exile, concentration camps, etc. Very educational.
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Positive experience: Above all, do not forget the cruelty and the atrocities that some people are capable of committing and the immeasurable pain that oppressed people have felt and still feel
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Positive experience: Pleasant, very spectacular
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Positive experience: very well documented, but for what it is and was, I found it lacking in documents
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Positive experience: The history of Spanish exiles is gathered in this museum with a photo exhibition of the Retirada starting next Saturday
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Fantastic experience: It's worth going, it gives you goosebumps, documents with a lot of historical value.
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Positive experience: An essential museum, of the exile of war, the dictatorship, which could be much more comprehensive. There's always a beginning.
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