Editing Calais (section)

===Museums, theatres and cultural centres===
[[File:Calais theatre.jpg|thumb|right|Calais Theatre]]
Calais contains several museums. These include the [[Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Dentelle de Calais]], [[Cité internationale de la Dentelle et de la Mode de Calais]] and the Musée de la Seconde Guerre Mondiale (World War II museum). Cité internationale de la Dentelle et de la Mode de Calais is a lace and fashion museum located in an old Boulart factory on the canalside and contains workshops, a library and a restaurant and regularly puts on fashion shows.<ref name="Ruler69" /> The World War II museum is located at Parc St Pierre opposite the town hall and south of the train station. The building is a former Nazi bunker and wartime military headquarters, built in 1941 by the [[Todt Organisation]]. The 194-metre-long structure contains twenty rooms with relics and photographs related to World War II, and one room dedicated to World War I.<ref name="Ruler69" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=War Museum |url=http://www.calais-guide.co.uk/sights/war-museum.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120313052338/http://www.calais-guide.co.uk/sights/war-museum.html |archive-date=13 March 2012 |access-date=5 February 2012 |publisher=Calais Guide.co.uk}}</ref>

Theatres and cultural centres include Le théâtre municipal, Le Centre Culturel Gérard Philipe, Le Conservatoire à rayonnement départemental (CRD), L'auditorium Didier Lockwood, L'École d'Art de Calais, Le Channel, Le Cinéma Alhambra and La Médiathèque municipale. Le théâtre municipal or Calais Theatre is located on the Boulevard Lafayette and was built in 1903 on a plot of land which was used as a cemetery between 1811 and 1871.<ref name="CWSct">{{Cite web|title=Calais Theatre|url=http://www.calais.ws/CalaisTheatre.htm|access-date=5 February 2012|publisher=Calais.ws|first1=June|first2=Len|last1=Riddell|last2=Riddell|archive-date=1 February 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120201224319/http://www.calais.ws/CalaisTheatre.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> The theatre opened in 1905. On the first floor of the façade are statues which represent the performing arts subjects of Poetry, Comedy, Dance and Music.<ref name="CWSct" />