Museum Admission - self guided tour
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Museum Admission - self guided tour

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Visit: Western Approaches Museum - The Battle of the Atlantic Experience, World War 2 Underground H Q 1-3 Rumford Street, Liverpool L2 8SZ England

Western Approaches HQ is a secret WW2 bunker underneath Liverpool's City Centre, close to The Town Hall.

Walk through hidden rooms and discover the stories locked in the wartime bunker that protected the tactics and secrets of the British Armed Forces plotting to bulwark the Western Approaches and aid the Allied victory.

Glimpse the documents and tools the forces used to monitor enemy convoys and inform the British government of their findings whilst keeping their intelligence secret from the enemy, including one of only two surviving wartime phones which had a direct connection to the war cabinet in London.

See where commanders and WRNS and WAAF personnel worked every day and night in the Map Room, the nerve centre of the Battle of the Atlantic. Here they monitored convoy routes and vital shipping lines, and pin-pointed enemy locations on a huge map laid across the table; total accuracy was necessary to enable the Royal Navy to contact and destroy the enemy.

The Map Room which was the nerve centre of the bunker has remained exactly how as it was left when the doors were closed on 15 August 1945.

Experience a self guided tour of the museum where you can walk through the corridors, sit at desks, play with typewriters and teleprinter machines, look at the telephone exchange and try on uniforms.

There is also a room at the end of the tour where hot drinks are available at war time prices and there are traditional games to play and a film to watch about life in Liverpool during the war.

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Included
  • Free return admission within 6 months
  • Coffee and/or Tea - Hot drinks and biscuits are available at war time prices (donation)
  • Each guest is given an identity card as their museum pass, identical to the original staff passes
  • Entry/Admission - Western Approaches Museum - The Battle of the Atlantic Experience
Additional
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking
  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Service animals allowed
  • Near public transportation
  • Please note there are steps down into the bunker
  • Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
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