Tag: bunker

• 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…

  Alan Peters

  27th Mar 2023

  museums

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• Antwerp Bunker Museum.

  Hidden in a park on the outskirts of Antwerp lies this lovely, strange and surprising museum. The bunkers here were built in 1943 as part of the Atlantic wall defense shield around the coast of Europe by the German army during World War II. The troops which were stationed here in the bunkers and surrounding…

  Alan Peters

  4th Jun 2022

  Buildings

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