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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
#museum #entrance #today.
#same #area of the #museum #today.  #sp36 #maginotline #filter.
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
#Museum #entrance at the #start of #construction.
#museum #entrance at the #start of #construction.
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
#Gozo
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
#more from #Malta.
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A small team from the museum have arrived in #Malta
Entrance to the grand harbour in Valletta.
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Some of the team are heading to #Malta on Sunday. #recommendations?
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
It gets worse. #happyChristmas
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Some #newarrivals for the #hq #christmastree . Wishing #all our #followers a very #happyChristmas and peaceful new year.
#happyChristmas ##christmastree #decorations
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 31/07/2025
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a group of kittens are standing next to each other with their arms in the air and saying yay and woo .
ALT: a group of kittens are standing next to each other with their arms in the air and saying yay and woo .
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Fishbourne Roman Palace @romanpalace.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
💥🚨THIS WEEK!🚨💥 For one day only (Friday 25th July, since you ask) you can drop in to the Palace and chat to any number of experts and archaeological specialists. 10:30am to 4pm Suitable for all ages Free of charge, (optional entry to the Palace is normal price) Here's what we have planned 🧵👇
A bearded fool showing a small child wearing a red t shirt and blue cap a bone. It's impossible to tell whether the child is delighted or terrified.
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
The view from the office today. Supporting the open day at the Gardens of Easton Lodge.
Italian sunken garden
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
#sorry no #imagine. #we have been #shopping. #amazing #uboat items to follow!
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
It has always been in our development plan to produce at least 1 example of Maginot art. Today, we started to realise this ambition. The initial section of our museum offers a 1.1 Maginot experience to our visitors, so including the artwork was obviously required
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Not the #final version. But a long-standing #task #moved a step #closer to completion #museum
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
#maginot #art in the #making
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
#OpenDay!!
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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
22 June 1940 // HM Yacht Campeador had just sailed from Portsmouth on patrol when she struck a mine and sank with the loss of 20 men from her crew of 22. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
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britney spears is wearing a white dress and earrings and looking at the camera .
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Were they big enough though?
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
View of the inside of the cloche. To learn more about the casemate and operation little bear, see link: dunkirk1940.org/index.php?&p...
Inside of the GFM cloche
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
#German 88mm rounds #embedded in the #GFM #cloche of #Marckolsheim #sud #casemate. More info in alt text. #ww2 #littlebear #maginot #Alsace #France
Impacts on the GFM cloche on the roof of the Maginot casemate Marckolsheim sud. One of two CORF constructed casemates, located to the east of the village, these formed part of the third and principle line of defense along the Rhine valley.  Here we see 3 impacts from 88mm rounds. The lowest remains live, although the fuse has been removed. The action was from operation little bear, with the casemate having the dubious 'honor' of being the only work of the Maginot ever visited by Hitler.  

The casemate nord, no longer stands, having been demolished in the immediate post war era, whereas casemate sud is now fully restored and operated as a memorial museum. Fuse detail on the base of 88mm round embedded in the GFM cloche.
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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
19 June 1940 // Submarine HMS Orpheus was last heard from on this date while on patrol in the Mediterranean. She sent a signal from a position off Benghazi and disappeared, cause of loss unconfirmed. All 55 officers and men were lost. (Imperial War Museum Q 67709) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
An interwar photograph of British submarine HMS Orpheus, lost in the Mediterranean in June 1940. Image: Imperial War Museum: Q 67709.
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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
19 June 1940 // HM Trawler Murmansk was taking part in the evacuation of British forces from Brest but ran aground in the harbour in the early hours of the morning and was abandoned as a wreck. The Germans later salvaged her and put her into service as a patrol boat. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Thank you. Cooked on the bbq, we will be adding a pizza oven to the mix in the next few weeks
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
One of the joys of #traveling is the food. This is our first attempt at a #homemade Tarte Flambée. #Alsace
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
The #memorial of the #armistice #museum. #compiegne #France. See alt text for more information
End of the railway carriage at the armistice memorial museum.  Not the original,  as that was destroyed towards the end of ww2. All that remains of the original are some of the brass and some access rails (see to immediate left of the flags). The carriage presented today is one of the original batch produced for the railway from which the first carriage came from.
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Photos, or the roof never happened :P
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Look at it this way, we have seen your roof (in all its boxes) so not much to actually burn.
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 15/06/2025
#final #museum of our #tour
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Choice of taxidermy crocodile, or creepy doll head statue...
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
@romanpalace.bsky.social & @merchantshallyork.org , saw these today and thought of you!
Yes, this is a taxidermy crocodile A statue only the mother would have loved.
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
#memorial General Koenig. #stcroixauxmines #birhakeim
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
#resistance #memorial #colmar #alsace #France
#mémorial of the #resistance #colmar #alsace #France
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
You make your own fortune on Facebook.
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
A visit to a silver mine
Section of the silver mine 'Tellure'. One of the modern galleries, enlarged at the start of the 20th century.  The workings began in the 1500's.
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
#another interesting #museum. The #collection of one person, displayed beautifully and again with #passion.
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
An interesting encounter earlier today. We love junk shops for potential exhibits when in France. In this one we found a selection of WW1 relic grenades on offer. Stunning Mdle16 stick grende being one. Still very viable!
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
We are having a holiday. But history is never far from the surface
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
The bar has been raised impossibly high by this museum.
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Some more images. From today
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
Museum was in a town called Fismes, near Reims. We are at our destination now in Colmar
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
#first #museum of our #tour. 100 out of 10 for the content and displays!!
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
#Nextweek, we will be in #France. #Lookingforward to #meeting some of our #onlinefriends
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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
29 May 1940 // Destroyer HMS Grafton, carrying troops away from Dunkirk, was torpedoed by U.62 off Nieuwpoort after stopping to rescue survivors from HMS Wakeful. She was later scuttled by HMS Ivanhoe. 16 crew and 35 soldiers were killed. (Imperial War Museum FL 22287) #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
Royal Navy destroyer HMS Grafton, sunk during Operation Dynamo, 29 May 1940. Imperial War Museum image: FL 22287. Black and white photograph of a destroyer, taken from off the port bow, under way in coastal waters with a hilly shore visible behind her.
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RN ship losses @rnshiplosses.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
29 May 1940 // HM Trawler Calvi was sunk by a direct hit from a bomb at her berth in Dunkirk harbour during a German air raid. She settled on the bottom with masts and funnel above the water. One member of her crew died later of injuries received. #RoyalNavy #WW2 #NavalHistory
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Happy #internationalmuseumday to all our friends !!
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
If you were to drop it (not recommended)
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
It is indeed an actual clock.
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
In case anyone is wondering what the image is of: dunkirk1940.org/index.php?&p...
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Dornier 17-P Shot Down Near Traveron » Dunkirk 1940 - The Before, The Reality, The Aftermath
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Dunkirk 1940 Museum @dunkirk1940museum.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
We shall. Designed and added this to our online shop in an afternoon (see below). Next time we have a meeting with our suppliers, we shall develop our first tea-towel offering!
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