Tours Amboise Rouen Caen Honfleur

"So only issue we would like to see museum in Caen( know best to see before beaches )"

I actually wasn't particularly moved by the Caen Museum. It is not a museum about WWII but is called a Museum of History and Peace. It does have a section on WWII and there is a WWII bunker you can visit but to me it would not matter if you went before or after you visited the beaches or if you skipped it altogether. There are some girders from the World Trade Center plus exhibits on the Cold War as well. With limited time, I'd opt for visiting the actual outdoor sites. I liked the small museum at Arromanches of the Mulberry Harbors better than the Caen Museum.

I liked Pegasus Bridge, Arromanches and some of the other DDay sites.

I also enjoyed a short visit at Honfleur with it's cute harbor and interesting double-nave wooden church. There were about 6 river tour boats docked the day I went so it was pretty crowded. NOT as crowded as big cruise ships as these only have 125 or so people on them but crowded in the restaurants around the harbor area nonetheless.

We saw Caen after we visited the beaches and other D-Day sights and it seemed to not have mattered. My husband is a huge WWII buff and I am fairly well educated in history and we felt we had enough background in spite of not visiting Caen first. That said, my husband, in particular, really liked the Caen museum. I agree with poster above recommending Arromanches. We really liked the town with the remnants of the artificial harbor and the nice, small museum right on the beach/harbor. We did Honfleur after the D-Day beaches. We really enjoyed the town, the church, tasting apple cider just outside of town, the art museum and the lovely harbor. Honfleur works well logistically on your way to Rouen and Giverny. We took a slight detour to Etretat between Honfleur and Giverny which we thoroughly enjoyed.

Why not go to MSM on the way to Bayeaux and stay the night there? You then get to see it at its best as doing a day trip from Bayeaux is doubling back on your self.

You're spending three nights in Bayeux, but you lay out three full days' worth of activities -- beaches, MSM, and Bayeux itself. Those would be three very good days, but you'd need four nights to do them well.

To answer your question, the logical order for driving would be Bayeux to Caen to Honfleur to Rouen. The distances aren't great, and if you had a full day you could spend some time at the Caen museum (which is on the northern outskirts so you don't have to go into the city) and at the harbor in Honfleur (a couple of hours maybe, don't miss the double-nave church) and still get to Rouen. But see above re your time in Bayeux. Without a full day to get from Bayeux to Rouen, you'd have to choose.

I'm a fan of the Caen museum (officially the Memorial de Caen), which covers the whole European theater of WWII, but some others on this forum are not. Bayeux has a WWII museum, which I haven't visited but others praise, more focused on the Normandy experience. If you won't have a full day between Bayeux and Rouen, then I'd choose Honfleur over the Caen museum -- assuming that you'd been to the Bayeux museum on your Bayeux day.

Apart from my confusion over your Bayeux-based plans, it seems like a great trip, a little fast-paced but doable.

Although I did enjoy the Caen museum (spent 7 hours there and needed 8), seeing the smaller but good Bayeux museum would be a fine substitute.

I highly recommend that you take one of the van tours to D-Day sites rather than trying the do-it-yourself approach. Visiting the D-Day sites is not like stringing together a bunch of monuments and museums in a city On your own. You'll benefit greatly from having a driver/guide who knows where he's going and can explain what happened at each location.