The Museum of the Great War () is in Péronne, France, near the heart of the World War I Somme battlefields. The museum looks mostly at the Great War, and the years just before and just after. It strives to place war in a social context, stressing "the common suffering of the combatants" and "the civilians, who were equally mobilised by the war effort". Additionally, it has two major permanent specialist exhibits: Prisoners of War Children in World War I There is another museum with a similar name, near Paris, called the Musée de la Grande Guerre du Pays de Meaux