Monday, December 25, 2023

Visits to WW2 museum in the Netherlands (1)

Which wargamer hasn't heard about the Market Garden campaign in 1944 in the Netherlands? 

We think that, after maybe the miniatures of the Napoleonic guard grenadiers, miniatures of the red devils of the Arnhem Bridge fame are the most sold miniatures around the world; in every scale.

Two museums in the Netherland have market Garden as theme; the Airborne Museum at Hartenstein/Oosterbeek (with a smaller annex near the Arnhem Bridge) and the Vrijheidsmuseum (Freedom Museum) at Groesbeek. 

We visited both but the latter we combined with the autumn convention of the Nederlandse Stichting voor Modelfiguren.

Some pictures underneath; starting with the Airborne Museum.



















And some pictures of the Groesbeek museum. 

The Groesbeek museum is much smaller and doesn't concentrate on the fighting of 1944 as much as the Airborne does. 


























  

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