WE'LL MEET AGAIN UPDATED WW2 MUSEUM

News about the Museum

Our brilliant hangar project.

Proprietor/Curator, Paul writes: 

This is our architect’s impression of how our new hangar, interior display and events area building will look when completed. A significant project which, in addition to being a safe, weatherproof location for our Hawker Hurricane exhibit, will also provide display room for WW2 RAF displays, and space which can also be used as an interior events room. A couple of changes to the originally planned layout to reduce costs and construction time resulted in a delay to the planning permission being granted, but now all changes have been approved and we’re ready to go! 

PLEASE CAN YOU HELP US       

We still need to raise around £5,000 so that we can add a vertically rolling Hangar Door to the project. Some of our close friends, trustees and some very kind visitors and followers have already generously donated to our hangar project, the amount of which, when added to the sum we had already put into the project – means that we are almost there to be able to start and complete the build (hopefully) during the first 3 months of our reopening in 2025 – thank you all.

FLOOR-PLAN OF OUR IMPORTANT NEW BUILDING

1. Hurricane restoration completed.

WHY WE NEED A HANGAR FOR THE EXHIBIT

Since completion we’ve regularly had to remove the wings and the propeller to be able to move the fuselage back into our storeroom. Deconstruction and               re-assembling takes a minimum of eight strong adults and a trailer with a crane. Given the strong North Sea winds we experience, moving the aircraft inside is essential to keep the exhibit safe, but unfortunately, it also means that during bad weather, visitors can’t see an important exhibit, as for safety reasons it’s locked away in an area not accessible to the public.

2. Refitting the wings to display our Hurricane exhibit .

Given the cost, and the amount of work undertaken to restore the Hurricane to its now ‘original’ condition, it is important that in the long-term it is kept under cover as an exhibit but can easily be moved outside onto a concrete apron during decent weather.

Building the hangar will do so much for the museum.  The new adjacent display and events room will provide significantly more display space and enable us to put on events when the weather is wet. This will generate additional interest in the museum, encourage more visitors to bring family and friends, and others to return for additional visits, and it will increase visitor numbers to the museum.

A quick look at a few of the displays –                      Home-Front room…

3. War-time hospitalization  4. WW2 Grocery Shop   5. Women’s Land Army

Adjacent to the museum entrance desk, The Home-Front room has some amazing displays detailing ‘life at home’ during the war. There are exhibits relating to the Women’s Land Army, personal lifestyles, including clothes/fashions of the time, childcare, hospital services during the war and more.

A comprehensive shop exhibit displaying an in-depth range of wartime products attracts a lot of interest, with many visitors spotting products they remember from childhood or indeed, that they may have tried to obtain during the WW2 Rationing period.

… and in the War-Front room

There are some amazing collections relating to WW2 including uniforms, firearms, an amazing wartime model railway display, some superb artwork, a number of German WW2 items, large scale model aircraft, display cases - some containing WW2 donated items, some rare exhibits, our Lancaster Hi-Res, 3D flight simulator in which flights can be booked, and so much more.

AND THERE’S MORE TO SEE (below) We also have a genuine Anderson Shelter exhibit and a WW2 Police Office, complete with an occupied cell, and we frequently host exhibits from friends.

6. Boston at war            7. An excited visitor  8. Flight simulator in use

Below:

9. Inside Police Office        10. Anderson Shelter         11. Police Building

12. THE RATION BOOK CAFE -                                                

Open to visitors when the museum is. With 3 dozen interior seating spaces, an adjacent outside covered seating area, plus numerous picnic benches available around the site. Help always available for all, as required.

If you'd like to learn more about the Museum, then do please visit our website: https://www.wma-ww2museum.co.uk

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Alternatively, visit us on Tripadvisor where in 2024, the reviews we received won us a place in the Tripadvisor Travelers’ Choice Awards placing us in the top 10% of attractions worldwide. Visit https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g2697448-d12829539-Reviews-We-ll Meet Again-Freiston Lincolnshire England.html