Museums/National Monuments and Aerospace Museums

• Aeronautical & War Museum Texel- by Jan Nieuwenhuis:http://www.lomt.nl/

• Airborne Museum ‘Hartenstein’ (Airborne Museum Oosterbeek): http://www.airbornemuseum.org/language/en (Dutch: http://www.airbornemuseum.org/language/nl)

• Air War Museum, “Fort bij Veldhuis,” Heemskerk (Stichting Aircraft Recovery Group): http://www.arg1940-1945.nl/engels/indexgb.htm

• Alaska Veterans Museum, Anchorage, Alaska (extensive displays on the Aleutian campaign to expel the Japanese): http://www.alaskaveterans.com/

• American Air Museum in Britain: http://www.americanairmuseum.com/?_ga=1.198104872.627444767.1435018062

• Amersfoort Concentration Camp Memorial (Stichting Nationaal Monument Kamp Amersfoort): http://www.kampamersfoort.nl/p/start

• Armed Forces History Museum, Largo, Florida: http://www.armedforcesmuseum.com/

• Army Museum, Delft, The Netherlands: http://www.collectie.legermuseum.nl/strategion/strategion/i000000.html

• Arnhem War Museum ’40-’45: http://www.ww2museums.com/artikel/472/Arnhems-Oorlogsmuseum-40-45.htm

• Atlantic Wall Museum: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g188672-d2369247-Reviews-Atlantic_Wall_Museum-Ostend_West_Flanders_Province.html

• Bastogne War Museum: http://www.bastognewarmuseum.be/

• Biesbosch Museum: http://www.biesboschmuseum.nl/biesboschmuseum/index.php?categorie=Home

• Breendonk Memorial (Belgium): http://www.breendonk.be/EN/index.html

• Camp Vught National Monument:http://www.nmkampvught.nl/index.php?id=219

• Camp X Historical Society (Canada-Ontario-Whitby) (BSC, SOE, and OSS): http://www.campxhistoricalsociety.ca/

• CODA Library, Museum, Archives (Apeldoorn, The Netherlands): http://www.coda-apeldoorn.nl/

• CRASH 40-45 Air War and Resistance Museum (Luchtoorlog- en Verzetsmuseum van de Stichting CRASH 1940-1945: http://www.crash40-45.nl/

• Dakota Historical Center 15th Wing: http://www.dakota15wing.be/

• December 1944 Historical Museum, La Gleize, Belgium: http://www.december44.com/

• De Patrijs (“The Partridge”) WWII Resistance and Air Crash Museum of Haaltert, Belgium:  See https://www.tracesofwar.com/sights/1408/Resistance-Museum-Le-Perdreau—De-Patrijs.htm ; https://www.facebook.com/WO2verzetsmuseum/;   and   http://verenigingen.nieuwsblad.be/vereniging/vaderlandslievende-kring-groot-haaltert.  

• Dutch Resistance Museum, Amsterdam:http://www.verzetsmuseum.org/museum/en/museum

• Eldred WWII Museum, Eldred, PA: http://eldredpawwiimuseum.com/

• Eden Camp Modern History Theme Museum:http://www.edencamp.co.uk/

• Fondation de la Résistance: http://www.fondationresistance.org/pages/accueil/

• For Freedom Museum: http://www.forfreedommuseum.be/

• Foundation War & Resistance Center Groningen (Stichting Oorlogs- en Verzetsmateriall Groningen): http://www.ovcg.nl/ and http://www.ovmgeducatief.nl/

• Fries Verzets Museum (Leeuwarden, The Netherlands): http://www.friesverzetsmuseum.nl/

• Haaren Memorial 1940-1945: http://www.gedenkplaats-haaren.nl/

• Hilvarenbeek Museum: http://www.museumdedorpsdokter.nl/

• Imperial War Museum, London: http://www.iwm.org.uk/.  For Collections and Research: http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections-research.

• International Spy Museum: http://www.spymuseum.org/

• Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam: http://www.jhm.nl/english.aspx

• Jewish Museum of Deportation and Resistance, Mechelen, Belgium:http://www.cicb.be/en/home_en.htm

• La Maison du Chemin de la Liberte (The House of the Way of Freedom), France: http://www.chemindelaliberte.com/index.html

• La Roche-en-Ardenne, Musée de la Bataille des Ardennes: http://www.batarden.be/

• Liberation Museum Zeeland: http://www.bevrijdingsmuseumzeeland.nl/

• Marechaussee Museum, Buren, The Netherlands: http://www.marechausseemuseum.nl/

• Military History Museum of the German Armed Forces, Dresden (Militärhistorische Museum der Bundeswehr): http://www.mhmbw.de/facts

• Military Intelligence Museum: http://www.militaryintelligencemuseum.org/

• Museum De bewogen Jaren, Hooge Mierde by John Meulenbroeks:http://www.museumdebewogenjaren.nl/

• Musee de Souvenír (Museum of Remembrance 40-45, Brabant/Walloon): http://www.museedusouvenir.be/index.php

• Musée National de la Résistance, Brussels: http://www.musee-resistance.com/

• Museum of Danish Resistance: http://natmus.dk/en/the-museum-of-danish-resistance/.  Archives: http://natmus.dk/en/the-museum-of-danish-resistance/archives/.  Battle over the future of the Resistance Museum: http://cphpost.dk/news/battle-over-future-of-the-resistance-museum.5407.html

• Museum of the History of Polish Jews: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLeFIEg4z7U&feature=share

• Museum of World War II, Natick, MA: http://museumofworldwarii.org/

• Nationaal Bevrijdingsmuseum 1944-1945: http://www.bevrijdingsmuseum.nl/basis.aspx?Tid=2

• Nationaal Monument Kamp Amersfoort: http://www.kampamersfoort.nl/home.html

• National Liberation Museum, 1944-1945, Groesbeek, The Netherlands: http://www.bevrijdingsmuseum.nl/basis.aspx?Tid=746 .

• National Museum of the Pacific War, Fredericksburg, Texas: http://www.pacificwarmuseum.org/

• National War and Resistance Museum, Overloon:http://www.oorlogsmuseum.nl/index.php?t=en

• National World War II Museum (New Orleans):http://www.nationalww2museum.org/

• Navajo Code Talkers Museum: http://www.navajocodetalkers.org/

• Netherlands Royal Museum of the Army (legermuseum), Delft: http://www.armymuseum.nl/get?site=legermuseum.en

• On-line Resistance Museum, 1940-1945 (Musee de la resistance en ligne, 1940-1945): http://museedelaresistanceenligne.org/.
• Oorlogsmusea: http://nl.tracesofwar.com/museum/

• Oorlogsmuseum Overloon (Overloon war museum): http://www.oorlogsmuseum.nl/nl

• Oorlogs Verzets Museum (War and Resistance Museum), Rotterdam: http://www.ovmrotterdam.nl/.  In English: http://www.ovmrotterdam.nl/english/index.php

• “Orange Hotel”:  See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRMQzLCoqzI&feature=player_embedded and  http://www.oranjehotel.org/.

• Ordre de la Libération (Museum of the Order of Liberation): http://www.ordredelaliberation.fr/.  English language: http://www.ordredelaliberation.fr/english/contenido1.php

• Overloon War Museum (Oorlogsmuseum): http://www.oorlogsmuseum.nl/

• Overzicht Nederlandse oorlogs-, verzets- en bevrijdingsmusea: http://members.chello.nl/~h.knoppers/musea.html

• Royal Army Museum, Brussels: http://www.legermuseum.be/

• Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and of Military History, Brussels, Belgium (Musée Royal de l’Armée et d/Histoire Militaire):http://www.klm-mra.be/ (Koninklijk Museum van het Leger en de Krijgsgeschiedenis): http://www.legermuseum.be/.  In English: http://www.klm-mra.be/klm-new/engels/main01.php?id=menu_links/startpagina

• Slovenian Pivka Park Museum of Military History (in English): http://parkvojaskezgodovine.si/en/

• Stichting Wings to Victory: http://www.wingstovictory.nl/

• Utah Beach: http://www.utah-beach.com/

• USS Iowa Museum: http://www.pacificbattleship.com/page/museum

• War and Resistance Museum of Rotterdam:http://www.ovmrotterdam.nl/english/index.php

• War Museums: http://www.oorlogsmusea.nl/.  This website has a nice feature which allows you to search for memorials and cemeteries by the name of the community.   For example, for Hilvarenbeek, see: http://www.oorlogsmusea.nl/searchpage.asp?q=hilvarenbeek.  For Goirle, see: http://www.oorlogsmusea.nl/searchpage.asp?q=Goirle.  For Baarle-Nassau, see: http://www.oorlogsmusea.nl/searchpage.asp?q=Baarle-Nassau.  For Esbeek, see: http://www.oorlogsmusea.nl/searchpage.asp?q=Esbeek.

• War Museums in Europe: http://www.warmuseums.nl/
• WWII Resistance Museum De Patrijs ’44.  https://www.uitinvlaanderen.be/agenda/search?search=The%20Partridge%20%2744 and  https://www.haaltert.be/product.aspx?id=848.
• World War II Valor in the Pacific National Monument (Hawaii): http://www.nps.gov/valr/index.htm

• WW2 Museums: http://www.ww2museums.com/

Museums – Aerospace

The following list of aerospace museums is heavily weighted with museums on the west coast of the U.S. and Canada.  For a definitive list of aerospace museums in the those two countries, see Michael A. Blaugher’s  Guide to Over 900 Aircraft Museums:  http://www.aircraftmuseums.com/.  In addition, see the two listings below, (1) Air & Space Museum Links and  (2) Landings: Aviation Museums.

• 390th Memorial Museum, Tucson, AZ: https://www.390th.org/

• 1941 Historical Aircraft Group Museum, Genesee, New York: http://www.1941hag.org/

• Aero Space Museum of Calgary, Canada: http://www.asmac.ab.ca/

• Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan, CA: https://aerospaceca.org/ and  http://www.aerospacemuseumofcalifornia.org/

• Air & Space Museum Links: http://classicairliners.tripod.com/museums.html

• Airpower Museum: http://www.antiqueairfield.com/apm/

• American Air Museum in Duxford, England: http://aam.iwm.org.uk/

• American Air Power Museum: http://americanairpowermuseum.com/

• ATA (Air Transport Auxiliary) Museum, Maidenhead Heritage Centre, Maidenhead, England: http://www.atamuseum.org/your-visit.html

• Atlantic Canada Aviation Museum: http://www.atlanticcanadaaviationmuseum.com/

• Aviation Museum: http://www.aviationmuseum.eu/

• AVOG’s Crash Museum, Lievelde, The Netherlands: http://www.crashmuseum.nl/uk.html

• Brussels Air Museum: http://www.airmuseum.be/en/index.php
• Bomber Command Museum of Canada (Nanton, Alberta): https://www.bombercommandmuseum.ca/.  See also their archives at https://www.bombercommandmuseumarchives.ca/index.html.  Note that the Operational Record Books for RCAF Bomber Command squadrons are available on-line at the Bomber Command Museum.  See https://www.bombercommandmuseumarchives.ca/menu_sub_bombercommand_squadronorbs.html .  See also Canada’s Air War at https://www.bombercommandmuseumarchives.ca/menu_sub_bombercommand_canadaairwar.html.
  
• CAF (Commemorative Air Force) Airpower Museum (Midland, TX): http://www.airpowermuseum.org/

• Canada Aviation & Space Museum, Ottawa, Ontario: http://www.aviation.technomuses.ca/

• Canadian Air & Space Museum, Toronto: http://casmuseum.org/

• Canadian Museum of Flight, Langley, BC: http://www.canadianflight.org/

• Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum: http://www.warplane.com/

• Champaign Aviation Museum, Urbana, OH: http://www.champaignaviationmuseum.org/AB0UT_OUR_AIRPORT.php

• College Park (Maryland) Aviation Museum: http://www.collegeparkaviationmuseum.com/About_Us.htm

• Combat Air Museum, Topeka, Kansas: http://www.combatairmuseum.org/

• Comox Air Force Museum, Comox, BC: http://www.comoxairforcemuseum.ca/Home.html

• Cradle of Aviation Museum, Long Island, NY: http://www.cradleofaviation.org/

• Davidstow Moor RAF Memorial Museum: http://www.davidstowmemorialmuseum.co.uk/.  I visited this museum in September 2014.  Mr. David Keast, B.E.M., gave us a warm welcome.  The museum is packed with so much material from WWII that you can spend hours there.  Making it all the more meaningful, the old airfield and control tower are still there.

• EAA AirVenture Museum, Oshkosh, Wisc.: http://www.eaa.org/en/airventure

• Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum, McMinnville, OR: http://www.evergreenmuseum.org/
• Flying Heritage and Combat Armor Museum (FHCAM), at Paine Field, Everett, Washington, near Seattle: http://www.flyingheritage.com/
• Frontiers of Flight Museum, Dallas, Texas: http://www.flightmuseum.com/

• General Carl Spaatz National US Army Air Forces Museum: https://www.spaatzmuseum.org/
• Glenn L. Martin Maryland Aviation Museum, Baltimore, MD: http://www.mdairmuseum.org/

• Hill Aerospace Museum, Hill Air Force Base, Ogden, Utah: http://www.hill.af.mil/library/museum/.  The members of the Air Forces Escape & Evasion Society (AFEES) visited this museum during their 2015 annual meeting and were duly impressed.  It has a tremendously diverse collection of all types of military aircraft.

• Kansas Aviation Museum: http://www.kansasaviationmuseum.org/

• Imperial War Museum Duxford: http://duxford.iwm.org.uk/

• Landings: Aviation Museums: http://www.landings.com/_landings/pages/museums.html .  This is an index to aviation museums.

• Liberty Foundation, Tulsa, OK: http://www.libertyfoundation.org/index.html

• Lone Star Flight Museum, Galveston, TX: http://www.lsfm.org/

• Lyon Air Museum Santa Ana, Calif.: http://www.lyonairmuseum.org/

• Malmstrom AFB Museum and Airpark: http://www.malmstrom.af.mil/library/malmstrommuseum/

• March Field Air Museum, March ARB (near Riverside), CA: http://www.marchfield.org/

• McAllister Museum of Aviation, Yakima, WA: http://mcallistermuseum.org/

• Mid-Atlantic Air Museum: http://www.maam.org/.  For the museum’s 25th Anniversary World War II Weekend, June 5-7, 2015, Reading Regional Airport, Spaatz Field, Berks Co., PA, go to http://www.maam.org/maamwwii.html.

• Midland Air Museum, Coventry, England: http://www.midlandairmuseum.co.uk/

• Mighty Eighth Air Force Museum: http://www.mightyeighth.org/

• Military Aviation Museum, Virginia Beach, VA: http://www.militaryaviationmuseum.org/

• Minter Field Air Museum, Shafter, CA: http://www.minterfieldairmuseum.com/

• Musée de l’Air et de l’Espace, Le Bourget, Paris: http://www.aviationmuseum.eu/World/Europe/France/Paris-Le_Bourget/Musee_de_l_air.htm

• Museum of Flight, Seattle, WA: http://www.museumofflight.org/

• National Air & Space Museum.  For the finding aid for technical files, see https://airandspace.si.edu/research/resources/technical-files.  To search the collection, see https://airandspace.si.edu/collections.  For the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Washington Dulles International Airport: http://www.nasm.si.edu/UdvarHazy/.

• National Museum of the U.S. Air Force, Wright Patterson AFB, OH: http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/.  For a virtual tour of the museum, go to: http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/full/tour-std.html.

• National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola, Florida: http://www.navalaviationmuseum.org/

• National Warplane Museum, Corning, NY: http://www.nationalwarplane.org/

• National WASP World War II Museum, Avenger Field, Sweetwater, TX: http://waspmuseum.org/about/

• New England Air Museum, Windsor Locks, CT: http://www.neam.org/

• New Hampshire Aviation Museum: http://www.nhahs.org/

• Oakland Aviation Museum, Oakland, CA: http://www.oaklandaviationmuseum.org/

• Olympic Flight Museum, Olympia, WA: http://www.olympicflightmuseum.com/

• Oregon Air & Space Museum, Eugene, OR: http://www.oasm.info/

• Pacific Aviation Museum, Pearl Harbor, HI: http://www.pacificaviationmuseum.org/

• Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs, CA: http://www.palmspringsairmuseum.org/

• Pearson Air Museum, Fort Vancouver National Site, Vancouver, WA: http://www.fortvan.org/pages/pearson-air-museum or try http://www.pearsonairmuseum.org.

• Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson, AZ: http://www.pimaair.org/

• Planes of Fame Air Museum, Chino, CA: http://www.planesoffame.org/

• Planes of Fame Air Museum, Valle, AZ: http://planesoffame.org/?page=valle-az-location

• Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum: http://www.pwam.org/

• Royal Air Force Museum (London and Cosford): http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/

• San Diego Aerospace Museum, El Cajon, CA: http://www.sandiegoairandspace.org/

• Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, Washington, D.C.:http://www.nasm.si.edu/research/arch/

• Strategic Air and Space Museum, Nebraska: http://www.strategicairandspace.com/

• Tillamook Air Museum, Tillamook, Oregon: http://www.tillamookair.com/

• United States Army Aviation Museum: http://www.armyaviationmuseum.org/

• Vintage Flying Museum, Fort Worth, TX: http://www.vintageflyingmuseum.org/

• Vintage Wings of Canada (Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum): http://www.vintagewings.ca/en-ca/home.aspx

• Western Museum of Flight, Torrance, CA: http://www.wmof.com/

• WWII Flight Training Museum and 63rd AAF Flying Training Detachment: http://wwiiflighttraining.org/

• WW II Remembrance Museum, Sussex, U.K.:http://wingsmuseum.co.uk/

• Yankee Air Museum, Belleville, MI: http://www.yankeeairmuseum.org/

• Yanks Air Museum, Chino, CA: http://www.yanksair.com/