Red Cross Museum Narvik

Red Cross Museum, Narvik - darkometer rating : 4 - A museum in the town of Narvik , in northern Norway , which played a particularly important role in WWII . The museum covers this war history as well as that of POW prison camps and – to live up to its official name – also has a small medical section about the Red Cross. The exhibitions are more comprehensive and well laid-out than you would expect for such a small and remote place. Recommended. > More background info > What there is to see > Location > Access and costs > Time required > Combinations with other dark destinations > Combinations with non-dark destinations > Photos More background info: for the role of the town and its iron-ore harbour especially in WWII see under Narvik . What there is to see: quite a lot – much more than the rather modest-looking, low-slung building would suggest from the outside. Inside it turns into something like a Tardis kind of a museum. It's chock-full of artefacts, photos and documents, all very densely crammed together on two levels. Before you go in you will notice the museum's largest single exhibit: an old tank parked outside a bit to the right of the museum entrance. Once inside, a relief/diorama of the Narvik Battle area dominates the centre of the first hall. On a large panel with push buttons you can make various locations related to stages of the battle light up. The rest of the museum is organized mostly chronologically, but in part also thematically. The sections are " numbered" by letters A-W. Section A sets the scene in a room at the far end of the downstairs part of the museum. This is about the German preparations for the invasion of Norway , code-named "Weserübung". There are an endearingly old-fashioned diorama display with models, documents, maps and various nautical artefacts from ships involved in that battle.