THE ‘’GRAND BUNKER’’

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Posto THE ‘’GRAND BUNKER’’
MUSEUM OF THE ATLANTIKWALL
OUISTREHAM – 14150 – AVENUE DU 6 JUIN
museegrandbunker@sfr.fr
TEL: (+33) 02 31 97 28 69 / FAX: 02 31 96 66 05
Sito Web o Internet www.museegrandbunker.com
Contatto museegrandbunker@sfr.fr

The Grand Bunker of the former Shooting Command and Management Station has been completely renovated to house a museum devoted entirely to the Atlantic Wall in Normandy. After having belonged to the Navy, the founders wanted this unique blockhouse to recover its original appearance.
A remarkable construction, since it is a Sonderkonstruktion (to which we will devote a paragraph below), all rooms were remodeled in a remarkable way, with a very abundant and authentic material. The founders took full advantage of this 17-meter high construction to re-situate and present the essential functions that characterized the life of the defensive positions of the Atlantic Wall in the D-Day Landing.
The founders of the Museum wished to offer to visit the 5 levels of this blockhouse in which was installed the nerve center of the command of the defenses of the estuary of the Orne, in order to reconstitute and restore the atmosphere which could reign in this one. on the eve of the D-Day!
It should be noted that the Museum of the Atlantic Wall, the Grand Bunker, is the last visible vestige of what was the most powerful coastal battery in the area, the latter having been defined as a defense zone to be fortified primarily by the German high command.
The Grand Bunker Museum therefore allows us by its high presence not to forget that a powerful device of coastal defenses was deployed to Riva-Bella. In addition it invites us to discover this last vestige of the interior by restoring it in its first destination. The Grand Bunker Museum becomes a real memory journey …

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