Musée du Débarquement Arromanches wayfinding
Musée du Débarquement Arromanches is a museum dedicated to the memory of D-Day in the Second World War, located in Arromanches in Normandy, France. It was initially built in 1954 facing the sea where the artificial harbour Mulberry B (B for British) operated. After almost 70 years of activity, a new building opened in 2023. The new museum was designed by the Projectiles architecture agency.
The graphic design for the wayfinding system and the exhibition was done by WA75 (Laurent Mészáros & Yorel Cayla), using BN Times Gothic. The imposing wayfinding information is painted on the concrete walls in a white area, which provides a brutalist response to the building. This graphic composition first appeared on the concrete caissons (Phoenix breakwaters) built as part of the artificial harbour.
A Phoenix breakwaters from the artificial Mulberry harbour in Normandy during World War II.
