My first visit to the new Dutch Military Museum

Have to say my eyes were drawn to the Brewster Buffalo. Is this the one recovered from a lake some time ago?

No, is a replica built in the USA. Speaking for myself: I will not go there, way to clean there! Like you are in a hospital.From what I can see on the pictures there are no posiblities to look in the cockpits.

Regards,

Mathieu.

Have to say my eyes were drawn to the Brewster Buffalo. Is this the one recovered from a lake some time ago?

Lovely looking museum !

Rob

Looks pretty good there.

I didn’t notice the V-1 alongside the Spit at first!

Most Dutch Air enthousiasts are not so happy with the new museum. Only a small part of the old Air museums collection is displayed. The remainder is crated and stored. Some of those stored airframes were key elements of the old museum…They even scrapped several stored airframes to create more storage space….

Amazing looking museum, great lighting, not crammed together shame it’s so far away 🙁

This looks like a really well laid out museum, some great displays.
Thanks for posting these excellent photos.

Andy Scott

Good to see that they fixed the DC-3 tailwheel, it was put on incorrectly facing forward after the airplane was suspended from the ceiling! :confused: The director stated that he would have it fixed before the opening, looks like he kept his word. I’ll need to go there myself sometime soon!

Time to start planning a wee holiday?
Nice set of photos you got there.

Been looking at some other images from the Museum on Flickr, and I’m very impressed by some of their choices for exhibits and how they’re exhibited.

Pretty well ticks all the boxes for what I’d consider good museum design, and looks as if it’s already quite popular.

It looks as if there would be room for expansion too. Plenty of parking space helps as well.

It looks like a brilliant museum. I like the line of jets “flying” down the hall, and the V2 about to impact.

I agree bleeming, wonderful stuff. Thank you posting….that F-15 looks great, just spotted it in the background.

Excellent :eagerness: A restoration dreamworld :angel:

It looks very impressive, I look forward to visiting it. The old museum was good but very dark inside, the amount of light and the layout of the aircraft here looks great.

I really like the little cutouts in the barriers around the aircraft displayed on the floor, which allow you to approach them closely.

Thanks for the preview; I’m hoping to get there between Christmas and New Years.

The new museum combines the collections of the Legermuseum at Delft with the collection of the Militaire Luchtvaartmuseum. The old museums are closed.

Wow ! Well lit, well set out, no barriers, fantastic exhibits, what more could you ask for.
Thank you for sharing.

Ben

Really wonderful photos, thank you for sharing them!

As a Mustang nut, it’s great to see the museum’s P-51K freshened-up and displayed in better lighting in this new facility. Having never been completely restored, it is a wonderful time capsule. The aircraft was originally assigned to the 78th Fighter Group (Duxford) during the war, and still has modifications in-place that were done to the aircraft while it was in service with the 78th, including a post-factory/in-field APS-13 tail warning radar installation and a 3-inch cutout in the instrument panel shroud and modified gunsight mount that was common amongst Fighter Groups in England operating P-51D/K’s (modifications to move the K-14 farther away from the pilot’s face). The fact that it had a K-14 gunsight and retains a ‘bicycle handle’ throttle lever, is also the result of USAAF in-field modifications, as it originally came from the factory with an N-9 gunsight and ball-tip throttle lever. The aircraft also still sports fabric-covered elevators, which early-to-mid P-51D/K’s had, before the switch to metal-covered elevators on mid-to-late P-51D/K’s.

That looks a really nice museum.
Have they incorporated the museum from Delft, or is that still there ?

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