Netherlands Fortress Museum

The Netherlands Fortress Museum is located in the town of Naarden, in The Netherlands. The Museum became mounted in 1955 in the Turfpoort Bastion, one of the six bastions that provide the walled city its distinct superstar form. During World War II, allied bombers returning to Great Britain from bombing missions used it as a marker. The fortifications themselves, including the bastions, date to the duration 1575-1585, while King Philip II of Spain ordered them constructed. The museum incorporates numerous famous, together with ones on fortification, garrison lifestyles, the Dutch Water Line, and the records of the city of Naarden. The showcase rooms are 5 metres underground in casemates; because they may be underground, temperatures are fairly stable and the quarters are warm in wintry weather and funky in summer. Above ground, the museum additionally includes a number of guns from the nineteenth Century.

The castle is open from 10:30 to 17:00 day by day Tuesday thru Sunday. The museum is open on all public holidays besides Christmas, New Years Day and King’s Day 27th April. There is a espresso and memento shop in the old cannon depot in the bastion. There also are lavatory centers at the snack keep and near the old entrance to the bastion. A museum boat conducts tours of the town moat. The boat leaves from a jetty by using the water postern.