Lego Museums visited the D-day Museum on the 6th June 2014
on the 70th anniversary of the Normandy landings in 1944. Let’s remember those
who sacrificed everything for the greater good on D-Day. Let’s commemorate
those thousands who lost their lives so others may live in freedom.
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| Will with his D-Day 70 year's badge. |
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| Will entering the D-day Museum. |
The museum is pact with WW2 history from Portsmouth and
other aspects of the Operation Overlord. Going into the museum you come across
first is the large and long Overlord Embroidery, which is the modern-day
comparison to the Bayeux Tapestry of 1066. This 272ft long piece of art (33ft
longer than its 11th century counter-part), looks back upon the dark days
before the operation of 1940 to the victory in Normandy in 1944.
The embroidery itself is worth going into the museum alone
to see. Although through-out the museum there is a number of other great and
interesting galleries to see.
These galleries display a large number of real artefacts for
the war alongside some life-like wax works, which gives the objects a life of
their own as well giving the visitor a feel of what it was like in times of war
within the late 30s and early 40s. Also using their personal objects of the men
who lived it gives a touching look into the lives of all who were involved,
with the stories of home with the blitz to the life at the front-line in
France. This museum also looks at the aspects of both sides, from the Allies
and the Germans.
For those military armament fans; there are a large rang of
weapons and vehicles what are dotted around the museum. This small museum is
fantastically laid-out to easily show the visitors all what the museum has to
offer.
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| Will looking out from a landing boat. |
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| Will is driving a U.S. Jeep. |
If you are a large WW2 and/or military buff you should go to
the D-day Museum to enjoy what they have to offer.
