Date visited 4 April 2024
The focus of this museum is on Cold War Air Defence - they are located on the site of a cold war missile battery in the SE corner of Denmark and have a solid collection of radar and missile hardware. In addition, the missile battery was built on the location of a WW2 German bunker complex. There is 1.7km of tunnels that you can go through (with a guide - they don't let you go down there by yourself), and (the reason I went there) - two twin 5.9" turrets that were originally fitted to the battleship Gneisenau before her disarming in 1943.Only one of these turrets is in the accessible area of the museum - the other one is about 100m beyond the perimeter fence - but I believe if you take the tunnel tour (I didn't - it takes 1.5 hrs and I didn't have that much time to spare), you get to the underground elements of the turrets.There is also a German 5" C/28 mounting there which was apparently used for illumination firings in support of the 5.9" battery.This museum is out of the way, so if you are going to go that far, it would be worth making the time to do the tunnel tour. There is a nearby UNESCO world heritage site (Stevnsfort Klint) which is worth going to - nothing to do with warships, but where else can you physically see the deposited layers from the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs!
