Museu Memorial de l'Exili La Jonquera

The Exile Memorial Museum (MUME), in La Jonquera, is a space dedicated to historical memory and commemorates the exile caused by the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939. This museum stands out as a benchmark among Girona museums for its work in preserving and disseminating the history of the Republican exile.

The MUME aims to explain and disseminate the 1939 exodus and to delve into all the developments that arose from that historical phenomenon, such as the internment of refugees in French concentration camps, the deportation and separation of families across France, the departure of thousands of refugees to Latin America, the deportation of thousands of exiles to Nazi extermination camps, or the struggle that many refugees later undertook to regain their freedoms in Spain.

The MUME, therefore, explains, from the perspective of historiographical rigor and the desire to educate, the diverse and turbulent journey taken by tens of thousands of people.

A destination, that of exiles, that helps us understand our past and, at the same time, brings us closer to the humanitarian crisis of our time, led by millions of refugees from all five continents who, for various reasons, have been forced to leave their homes.

We at MUME approach understanding the past of exile, and also our present conditioned by migration and refuge, through multiple resources: the permanent exhibition, temporary exhibitions, the art and memory proposal, the visit to the Canta-Mina Negrín mine in La Vajol, the Walter Benjamin Colloquium in Portbou and also in Northern Catalonia.

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La Jonquera, located in the Alt Empordà region, is a strategic point near the border with France, making it an emblematic place to understand the magnitude of the 1939 exile.

The location allows visitors to better contextualize the historical events related to the Republican exile.