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Narvik War Museum

Narvik War Museum

This war memorial museum has a wealth of information about the Narvik Campaign of 1940, and the town during its five years of German Occupation, during WWII, from 1940 – 1945. The museum shows the battles at sea, on land and in the air, with the participating forces from many nations: Britain, France, Poland, Germany, and Norway. The museum also shows what conditions were like for the civillian population and the many foreign POWs, and gives you a deep insight into wartime Norway.

Holidays that feature Narvik War Museum

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Type: Activity Holiday | Train Journey | Weekend Break | Winter Holiday | Autumn Holiday | Family Holiday | Individual Tour | New Year Break | Northern Lights
5 days/4 nights
from £1,145 pp

Polar Express Train Journey

Join this Arctic adventure on the Polar Express Train, traveling through Swedish and Norwegian Lapland. On this independent and eco-friendly journey, you will travel from Kiruna in Swedish Lapland all the way to the west to Narvik in Arctic Norway. On the way you will venture through the Abisko National Park and get to enjoy a thrilling dog sledding safari.

More about Narvik War Museum

The Red Cross War Memorial Museum is visited by people from many different nations who, because of their family ties, feel a direct link to the Battles of Narvik. There is a metro station called Narvik in Paris, and in Poland there are universities and high schools that bear the name Narvik. Many Spaniards went straight from the Spanish Civil War into the French Foreign Legion, which also fought in Narvik. Whilst the Soviet Union had not yet entered the war when the Battles of Narvik took place, during the war years about 75% of the 105,000 Russian soldiers in Norway were POWs in Northern Norway and suffered appalling conditions. Both Australian and Indian troops served in the British forces. Up to 350,000 German and Austrian soldiers were in Norway at any one time during the Nazi occupation. The few survivors and their many descendants are greeted by a museum which presents the history of the period in a highly fact-oriented, objective and nuanced way; the horrors of war sink in only gradually. The museum is not large, but it takes time to digest and reflect on the immense and moving story it has to tell.


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