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The museum is located in Castletown, Isle of Man right next to Ronaldsway Airport to the south of the island on the main Douglas - Castletown road. It is open at the weekends throughout the year and every day from late May to the end of September. Visits at other times and guided tours can be arranged by appointment. Entry to the museum is free.
The Manx Museum (Thie Tashtee Vannin) in Douglas, Isle of Man is the national museum of the Isle of Man. It is run by Manx National Heritage. The museum covers 10,000 years the history of the Isle of Man from the Stone Age to the modern era. [1] The museum serves as headquarters of Manx National Heritage. [2]
The war memorial in Douglas, Isle of Man is dedicated to those who died during World War I and World War II. The rolls of names are segregated by service and year of death. The inscriptions on the memorial read: Douglas commemorates the loyalty, courage, and self sacrifice of those who fell in the Great Wars 1914 - 1918, 1939 - 1945
This is a list of museums in Isle of Man. Manx National Heritage runs the following museums: Castle Rushen, Castletown; Cregneash Folk Village, Cregneash; Grove Museum, Ramsey; House of Manannan, Peel; The Great Laxey Wheel & Mines Trail, Laxey Wheel, Laxey; Manx Aviation and Military Museum, Castletown; Manx Museum, Douglas; The Nautical ...
The Manx Regiment – the 15th (Isle of Man) Light Anti Aircraft Regiment, Royal Artillery – was raised in 1938 as a Territorial Army (TA) unit of the British Army.It recruited on the Isle of Man and formed part of Anti-Aircraft Command at the outbreak of the Second World War.
(pre-RAF) RNAS airship station, then RAF Isle of Grain RAF Joyce Green: England Kent: 1914 1919 Coincidentally Vickers testing aerodrome 1910–1919 RAF Jurby: Isle of Man 1939 1972 RAF Jurby Head: Isle of Man 1939 1993 Former inshore air weapons range. Ordnance periodically continues to be washed ashore onto adjacent beaches or brought up in ...
The organisation manages a significant proportion of the Island’s physical heritage assets including over 3,000 acres of coastline and landscape. It holds property, archives, artwork, library and museum collections in trust for the Manx nation. It is the Isle of Man's statutory heritage agency and an Isle of Man registered charity (№ 603).
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