​​Château de Creully BBC studio

​​​After having been liberated on the afternoon of 6 June 1994 (D-Day), the village of Creully saw the BBC come to the chateau. British soldiers worked within the chateau to install a radio studio for the BBC in the square tower. This first studio opened to reporters from all over the world on 7 June, but the first broadcast was made from here on 19 June 1944.

In preparation for D-Day, the BBC engineers had prepared a mobile transmitter mounted on a truck with the plan that this would be able to work as soon as it arrived in Normandy. However, for technical reasons, the truck with the mobile transmitter was prohibited from embarking on the journey. A few days later, further difficulties arose in the distribution of transmitters, generators, amplifiers, microphones and other antennas, made complicated by the storms starting around 17 June.

It was not until 19 June that all the equipment was landed at Arromanches. It was on this day that the first reports were successfully broadcasted from this tower at the Chateau to London. From this studio broadcasts were made by war correspondents of all nationalities. This included Frank Gillard, head of the BBC team in Creully, Pierre Lefèvre, French correspondent, Robin Duff for the American forces and the Australiann Chester Wilmot.

This BBC studio stopped broadcasting on 21 July 1944, as other mobile studios had been installed towards the interior of Normandy after the capture of Caen and with the advance of the front. Chateau de Cruelly was also used as headquarters of General Montgomery.

Today Chateau de Creully houses the BBC Radio Museum, immersing visitors in the world of war correspondents, communications and radio. This museum, which offers collections from the 1920s to the 1980s, is set up in part of the upper rooms of the castle, in four distinct spaces, up to the square tower where most war correspondents first begun to cover the Battle of Normandy.