Prepare your visit

How to get to Ver-sur-Mer?

- By car:
Paris-America/Gold Beach Museums: 3h20
Caen-America/Gold Beach Museums: 35 min
Bayeux-America/Gold Beach Museums: 24 min
Cherbourg-America/Gold Beach Museums: 1h24
Ouistreham-America/Gold Beach Museums: 34 min
Free parking is available at the entrance to the museums. Electric vehicle charging stations are also available.
- By taxi: A reserved taxi parking spot is available.
- By bus: The regional NOMAD transport network offers regular service to Ver-sur-Mer.
- By train:
Paris St Lazare – Bayeux: approx. 3h
Paris St Lazare – Caen: approx. 2h20
Caen – Bayeux: 15 min
Cherbourg – Bayeux: approx. 1h10
- By bike or motorbike: Parking for bikes and motorbikes is available at the museum entrance.

Admission Fees

Individual visits:
Adult -> €5
Children aged 5 to 15 -> €2.50
Students aged 16+ -> €3
Reduced rate -> €4
Eligible for reduced rate:
- Groups of 11 or more adults
- Residents of Ver-sur-Mer (upon presentation of proof of residence)
- Adult companions of members of the America & Gold Beach association (with valid membership card)
- Partner campsites (visitors presenting a museum flyer stamped by a partner)
- Partner organizations:
1. KEOLIS Bus, visitors with a valid ticket from the day of the visit
2. Cherbourg Defense Base Circle with a "Marine Loisir" card
- Individuals with a valid Mobility Inclusion Card
- Members of the French military (with valid military ID or SNCF military family pass)
Free admission:
- Second World War veterans
- Visitors in wheelchairs *
- Members of the America & Gold Beach association
- Refugees under temporary protection with provisional residence permits
- Children under 5 years old
- Group guides, chaperones, and bus drivers
* See accessibility

Free guided tours are offered during the months of June, July and August*

*Schedules may vary depending on the season

Accessibility:
The museums do not have an elevator to access the first floor for wheelchair users. As such, admission is free for them. They can access the ground floor via the emergency exit, which will be opened by museum staff.

Group Activities

Guided Tours:
During the season, we offer guided tours twice a day on weekdays, combined with an entrance ticket. Information on 02 31 22 58 58.

Museum Tour: By appointment, we offer two formats of guided tours in French and English. Duration 1 hour 30 minutes, divided equally between the two themes.
Package price €25 + entrance fee for individuals or groups. From 1 to 25 people. Flat rate €25 + individual or group admission fee. 1 to 25 people.

British Normandy Memorial Tour: Discover the beauty of the site and the stunning views of the Ver-sur-Mer marshes and the remnants of the Arromanches artificial harbor. Why is there a British memorial in Ver-sur-Mer? Who built it, and how? What story does this site tell? Which British units landed here on June 6, 1944? We also honor the memory of soldiers whose names are engraved on the memorial’s stones. Accessible to people with reduced mobility.*
Flat rate €50 for 1 to 50 people.
*The memorial is about 1000 meters from the museums.

Guided Tour: Museums + Memorial:
Duration: 3+ hours
For groups of more than 25 people, the group will be split into smaller groups.
Flat rate €75 + individual admission fees

Example museum guided tour for 10 adult visitors (reduced rate €4): €25 + €40 = €75
Example memorial tour for 5 adult visitors (full rate €5): €25 + €25 = €50
Example museums + memorial tour for 30 children and 5 adult chaperones (free admission): €75 + €75 = €150 *
*In this case, one group of 20 visits the museum while the other visits the memorial, then they switch.

Quote upon request.
Reservations at +33 (0)2 31 22 58 58
Or by email: contact@america1927gold1944.fr

Educational Activity:
The museum offers a Morse code workshop for school groups, led by volunteers from the America & Gold Beach museums association.

Things to Do in Ver-sur-Mer:

- America & Gold Beach Museums, Admiral Byrd Square, green dot no. 1
- SEXTON self-propelled gun, Robert Kiln area, monument dedicated to the 86th Field Regiment (Hertfordshire Yeomanry) the Royal Artillery, red dot no. 6
- Memorial dedicated to the 2nd Battalion of The Hertfordshire Regiment, 9th Beach Group, red dot no. 6
- Memorial dedicated to the Royal Artillery regiments of the 50th British Infantry Division, red dot no. 6
- British Normandy Memorial and Churchill Centre, entrance on Rue Paul Poret opposite Rue de l'America
- Remembrance trail, see orange points route, approx. 3km:
- Casemates of the German battery known as ‘Mont-Fleury’, orange point Rue du Moulin, take Allée Hector Berlioz
- Stanley Hollis' hut, memorial to the 6th and 7th Battalions of the Green Howards, America aircraft signal post, at the orange point, Le Paisty Vert
- Place Winston Churchill, memorials to the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards armoured regiment and the 5th Battalion of the East Yorkshire Regiment at the orange point on Place Churchill
- The German battery at Marefontaine (not shown on the map, head towards Crépon-Creully, then Rue de la Marefontaine)
- Ver sur Mer lighthouse, orange dot on Avenue du 6 Juin and Rue du Pavillon
- Le Sexton bar/brasserie, red dot no. 6
- L'Armoire Gourmande, regional products, red dot no. 7
- Proxi, food shop, green dot no. 2
- Kyl & Kyn clothing shop, green dot no. 3
- Bakery/pastry shop/sandwiches, green dot no. 4
- Bar/tobacco shop/newspapers, Le Mikado, green dot no. 5
- Artisanal soap shop, ‘La Véroise’, red dot no. 8
- Artisanal chocolatier/jam maker, Douceurs nacrées, red dot no. 9

Other Cultural Sites Nearby:
- Musée du débarquement, Arromanches
- Juno Beach Centre, Courseulles-sur-Mer
- Radar Museum, Douvres-la-Délivrande
- Battle of Normandy Museum, Bayeux

Military Cemeteries Nearby:
- Bayeux British Military Cemetery
- Bény-sur-Mer Canadian Military Cemetery
- Bazenville British Military Cemetery
- Douvres-la-Délivrande British Military Cemetery
- Colleville-sur-Mer American Military Cemetery
- La Cambe German Military Cemetery