Thought provoking and immersive. The 9 screens wrapped around the walls provide a mixture of archive footage which introduces the background to the D-Day operation and the months which followed it. Definitely worth strolling down into Arromanches after your viewing to get up close and personal with some of the pontoons which formed part of the artificial harbour(providing the tide is out).
Manke Nelis N.
Rating des Ortes: 4 Schoorl, The Netherlands
Visit on 21 July ’14. The first museum on our ‘Normandy-beaches’ tour’. Film starts at fixed times, so we had to wait and had time to read the different information on the walls, while more tourists came in. Felt a bit crammed. 360-film was impressing. It’s actually watching different films on 6 screens all around you, at the same time. But still everything in a logical and heroic order. What the visit completes is the moment you get out: you directly have a great view from hillside on Gold-beach, the remains of the artificial ‘Mulberry-harbour’ and the old town and cliffs to the west.
Flory W.
Rating des Ortes: 5 Portland, OR
I didn’t understand when people are celebrating D-Day. I was too young, but I didn’t really care about the war, because it saddens me! But I’m older and can handle that now. Visiting museums, and the beaches where the troops landed, when the Germans were trying to own France.. . To understand the D-Day landing, you see two powerful 30 min. film that shows the build-up to D-Day itself and the successful campaign from there to Berlin(hourly from 10:00 to 19:00. I totally recommend it, it was very emotional and it was well done! This is the best part about the museum. We just can’t forget!