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German Occupation Museum Private Tour

Guernsey
Book online or call: +44 0800 015 4961
Duration: 3 h
Activity Level: Easy
Experience: Adventure, Family, Historical, Short Break
Language: English
Photo permit included
Tour by public transport
Canal Boat tour included
Train tickets included
Suitable for little children
Wheelchair accessible tour
Museum ticket included
Light snack included
Lunch included
Transportation included
Walking Tour

Overview

Your tour will then head back to port which includes a drive along the west coast, to see the many German bunkers and taking in the spectacular views that Guernsey’s coast has to offer.

What's included

  • Pick up and drop off from the cruise port
  • English speaking Driver
  • Entrance Fees to The German Occupation Museum
  • Meals & Refreshments

Highlights

German Occupation Museum
The German Occupation Museum is located on the small island of Guernsey in the Channel Islands and is owned and operated by Richard Heaume. It all began when Richard the schoolboy began collecting spent bullets in the local fields after the plough had gone by. In June 1966 Richard`s parents allowed him to use the cottage opposite their house to display his collection, bit-by-bit, purpose-built extensions to the small farming cottage, starting in 1976 with the transport corridor and tea room, in 1987 with the superb Occupation Street, and more recently in 2001 a further small extension housing a thought-provoking prison with information about the islands deportees and the tragic story of the Jewess taken away to the Nazi's Auschwitz concentration camp. The museum is now an extensive collection of original Occupation items and documents including many extremely rare pieces.

Itinerary

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Starting in St. Peter Port and heading southwest passing the German Underground Hospital, which is the largest construction in the Channel Islands, you will arrive for the first stop at the German Occupation Museum.  You will stop here for approx. 1 hour 15 minutes.  The museum provides an insight into life in Guernsey during the 1940s. The museum is complete with an authentic recreation of an occupation-era street, WW2 fortifications, & exhibitions of maritime history.

Your next visit will be to the Batterie Dollmann Gun pit.  Here you can freely walk around the site & view the Battery Gun Pit that is the last of its type in Europe.  This French, 10 tonnes, 22cm gun was restored by Guernsey Armouries in 1997 and sits in Gun Pit No. 3 of a German Coastal Artillery Battery, Batterie Dollmann.  When the restoration of this German Coastal Artillery Battery started, the bunkers were revealed to be remarkably intact including armored doors & a bunker telephone.  On various Sundays during the summer, the site is fully open to the public and the gun is fired using blank charges.

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