Defence and Garrison Museum
Aalborg Forsvars- og Garnisonsmuseum | |
Established | 22 June 2002 |
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Location | Aalborg, Denmark |
Coordinates | 57°3′22″N 9°52′58″E / 57.05611°N 9.88278°E |
Visitors | 18,500 (2012)[1] |
Director | Flemming Larsen |
Website | forsvarsmuseum |
The Aalborg Defence and Garrison Museum (Danish: Aalborg Forsvars- og Garnisonsmuseum) is a military museum in Aalborg, Denmark that covers all branches (except naval) of Danish defence organizations.[2][3]
History
The museum is located in a seaplane hangar, built by
Exhibits
The museum covers most branches of Danish defence organizations—the Danish Navy was excluded because it was already represented in the city's maritime museum.[3] The branches include the Royal Danish Army, the Royal Danish Air Force, the Home Guard, the Police, and the Danish Emergency Management Agency with an emphasis on their activities during and after World War II to the present. There are also exhibitions of Denmark during World War II 1940–45, and about Aalborg as a garrison city since 1779.[4][5]
In the original command bunker of the seaplane base are exhibitions on the three German airbases in Aalborg during WW II and the camps for German refugees after the end of the war.[6][7][8]
Funding
The museum is a private institution that does not receive government grants for the operation. The museum is almost exclusively run by volunteers, who have served in the Danish armed forces. Defence authorities provided most of the museum's exhibits, especially the heavy equipment such as vehicles and fighter jets, thus the museum contains a large portion of stockpiled equipment during the Cold War.[9]
The museum is open daily from 1 April to 31 October. Because the hangar is unheated, the museum is open only by special arrangement from 1 November to 1 April. However the museum is open in week 7 and 8 (Danish winter vacation period.[1] The museum had more than 18,500 visitors in 2012.[1]
References
- ^ a b c "Ny rekord på forsvarsmuseum". www.nordjyske.dk. Retrieved 20 February 2015.
- ISBN 978-1-84836-663-3.
- ^ a b c d e "Aalborg får garnisonsmuseum i gammel flyhangar" [Aalborg gets garrison museum in old airplane hangar]. Politiken (in Danish). 10 July 2001.
- ISBN 978-87-87409-11-7.
- ISBN 978-87-7307-450-3.
- ^ Westpreußen-Jahrbuch (in German). Vol. 55. Prussia, West (Poland): Westpreußen-Verl. 2005. p. 125.
- ISBN 978-87-982530-1-3.
- ISBN 978-87-7492-638-2.
- ISBN 978-87-90975-05-0.