Tag: museum

Skoda


① memo 20171031 ~ Skoda ~ Beachcomber Hille van Dieren together with other local volunteer “war-archeologists” ‘exhumed’ this wreckage of a 1936 Skoda car at the former Luftwaffe Radar site “TIGER Stellung” on the Wadden Isle Terschelling. This Skoda 420P cabriolet was owned by the Frisean Roelof Beetsma , when in 1943-’44, the Germans requisitioned his car for use by the Luftwaffe personnel and staff of the ‘TIGER Stellung’. Filmed last month – with volunteer guide Peter de Jong telling this story in dutch – in one of the bunkers of the Tiger Bunkermuseum Terschelling ( http://bunkersterschelling.nl ) , Netherlands.

Bunker Leader


① memo 20171030 ~ Bunker Leader ~ Leader room ( Führer raum ) in one of the bunkers — G23 Type St.-L410A Anti-Aircraft Bunker —  of the former Luftwaffe Radar site “TIGER Stellung” on the Wadden Isle Terschelling – filmed last month. They were built by the German occupier during World War Two and were part of the German defence line against allied Bombers on their way to bomb Germany. This bunker (Typ L/410A ) and a few other ‘museum bunkers’ – of the over 100 bunkers in total – of the Tiger Stelling on this island are being restored and made accessible to the public by the volunteers of the Bunkermuseum Terschelling  , Netherlands

Open


① memo 20171016 ~ Open ~ Sculpture ‘Last night on the backporch’ (1999) by belgian artist Camiel Van Breedam – ROOD huid expo (Red skin) 18.10.2016 / 28.08.2017 – filmed last Sunday at the roof terrace of the Kazerne Dossin museum last Sunday , Mechelen , Belgium

Transit Camp Mechelen


① memo 20170727 ~ Transit Camp Mechelen ~ Today 75 years ago on July 27, 1942 the “SS-Sammellager Mechelen” collection and deportation camp was opened in the former barracks “Kazerne Dossin”. The building now houses the Kazerne Dossin memorial , filmed here in 2013 – Mechelen , Belgium.

Tingel Tangle


① memo 20170718 ~ Tingel Tangle ~ Detail of new sculpture by Guido Geelen filmed last thursday in the garden of museum De Pont , Tilburg , Holland