Another one for the itinery. Battle of Overloon was the next chapter of conflict in this area following the failed Allied push towards Arnhem.
Museum contains an excellent hall with WW2 period vehicles (a lot of American support vehicle stuff that you don't usually see in other museums) along with the usual array of tanks and carriers with a few vehicles of moew modern heritage (Leopard 1, etc). A huge collection of every type of grenade and shell imagineable fills two walls. The other part of the museum is largely given over to the Dutch perspective of the war via chronologically organised photographs. Main exhibit signage is provided in English altough there is a lot of stuff as you would expect in Dutch or German.
http://www.oorlogsmuseum.nl/
If you are interested in German airborne forces (the Fallschrimjagers) there is a very good exhibtion charting their campaigns from the early days of the war (the taking of Fort Eban Emael) to Crete, Monte Cassino, Russia through to their particpation in the Battle of Overloon and the Ardennes. Exhibits are mostly unforms and period weapons but it is well set out along with personal material of some of the soldiers. Somebody has posted their visit of Youtube which will give you a sense of what is in this part of the museum. I found this particularly interesting given the role airborne Allied forces had in Holland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j4OenjFb8k
Museum contains an excellent hall with WW2 period vehicles (a lot of American support vehicle stuff that you don't usually see in other museums) along with the usual array of tanks and carriers with a few vehicles of moew modern heritage (Leopard 1, etc). A huge collection of every type of grenade and shell imagineable fills two walls. The other part of the museum is largely given over to the Dutch perspective of the war via chronologically organised photographs. Main exhibit signage is provided in English altough there is a lot of stuff as you would expect in Dutch or German.
http://www.oorlogsmuseum.nl/
If you are interested in German airborne forces (the Fallschrimjagers) there is a very good exhibtion charting their campaigns from the early days of the war (the taking of Fort Eban Emael) to Crete, Monte Cassino, Russia through to their particpation in the Battle of Overloon and the Ardennes. Exhibits are mostly unforms and period weapons but it is well set out along with personal material of some of the soldiers. Somebody has posted their visit of Youtube which will give you a sense of what is in this part of the museum. I found this particularly interesting given the role airborne Allied forces had in Holland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0j4OenjFb8k
