Mons - Civic Museums Musées du Centenaire

The Ceramic Museum on the first floor has more than 3,500 exhibits from all important European faience and porcelain manufactories such as Delft, Sèvres, Meissen, Ludwigsburg and local products from Mons and Nimy, dating from the 18th C. to the present day.

Almost 20,000 coins and medals from all epoques and countries fill the showcases of the Numismatic Museum on the second floor.

The War Museum occupies two stories. On the ground floor the First World War is commemorated, especially the British regiments which near Mons on August 23 and 24, 1914 stopped the Germans who were proceeding in the direction of Paris. The museum on the third floor is dedicated to the Second World War and the liberation of Mons by American troops on September 2, 1944.

Canadian troops reached Mons on the morning of 11 November, 1918.