Curator Andrew Whitmarsh discusses the current transformation of the D-Day Museum in Portsmouth.
The D-Day Museum in Portsmouth opened in 1984, and is currently undergoing a complete redisplay as part of a major Heritage Lottery Fund-supported project. This talk will look at the approach that the museum is taking to telling the story of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy through the objects in its collection.
D-Day enabled the Allies to establish a foothold on the beaches of Normandy. But they still faced the task of breaking out, pushing the Germans back and liberating France.
The Second World War (1939-45) was the bloodiest conflict in human history. It split the world's nations into two opposing military alliances - the Allies and the Axis Powers.