Category: museums
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The Atlantic Wall (AKA, the museum that was closed)
On the 3rd of March 2023 a friend and I set out from where we were staying in Bruges to see the The Atlantic Wall. It was a fairly short journey by train that took around 30 minutes. There are many areas in which there are remains of the coastal defences erected by the Axis…
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Museums of the World: National Coal Mining Museum, Wakefield.
I’ve been wanting to visit the National Coal Mining museum for years. Coming as I did from East London I never really knew anything about mining in Yorkshire and the communities that it created. When I first moved to Yorkshire I was often told about how the way of life of the miner was destroyed…
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Museums of the World: In Flanders Fields Museum, Ypres.
This was such an incredible experience and well worth the trip to Ypres. As I’ve mentioned before, my main criteria for any museum is how much they Inform, Educate and Entertain. In Flanders Fields museum fulfilled all of these criteria with ease. The museum is located in the second floor of the Cloth Hall building…
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A Sombre Trip to Ypres.
When I was a teenager my father told me a story. I must have been around 13 and learning about the First World war at school. I couldn’t quite grasp how devastating the war must have been on the families of England and how so many young men lost their lives in a needless war…
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Museums of the World: Bruges Torture Museum.
Readers that don’t like to see images of the torture of wax people please stop now. Here’s a nice picture of a sunrise in my local park early one January morning. No actual living human is being injured in any of the following photos and any blood is simply red paint but, if you absolutely,…
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A Visit to the Military History Museum, Budapest.
I love a good museum and I’m always on the hunt for one that will entertain, educate and inform me. The Military History museum in Budapest fulfilled all those things. On a cloudy Saturday morning, following a very wet Friday, I headed over to the Buda side to find the museum. The subway journey was…
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Fiume Road Cemetery, Budapest.
Regular readers willl know that whenever I visit a new city the two things I seek out are Old Cinemas or Cemeteries. Budapest, oddly, has no old, abandoned, repurposed or derelict cinemas. All of the cinemas in the city are either newish and operated by the Cinema City comany or still standing from the 80’s.…
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Memento Park, Budapest.
It was a bright day when I started out. Sure I’d seen a very red sky at sunrise but dismissed this completely. I’d read about Memento Park several times but never made it the last time I was in Budapest as it seemed a little far if I wasn’t driving. I had no idea how…
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Yorkshire Air Museum.
Back in November I took a drive to Doncaster’s Yorkshire Air Museum. I’d discovered the museum online and, as it was only a 30 minute drive for me, decided to visit one damp Saturday morning. The one plane that really caught my attention before even visiting was the Hawker Siddeley Jump Jet. When I was…
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