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The National War Museum is a museum in Fort Saint Elmo in the city of Valletta, Malta. It is one of the most popular museums in Malta. From 1975 to 2014, its collection mainly focused on World War I and World War II. [1] It was refurbished in 2015, and its collections now include exhibits ranging from the Bronze Age to 2004. [2]
The Malta at War Museum is a museum in Birgu, Malta, which is dedicated to Malta's role in World War II. The museum is housed within a barrack block and a rock-hewn air-raid shelter within Couvre Porte Counterguard.
Interior of Fort Saint Elmo after restoration and inauguration as a museum. From 1975, part of the fort housed the National War Museum, which contained military equipment and other things related to World War I and II. A replica of the George Cross that was awarded to Malta by King George VI in April 1942, was also on display in this museum. [18]
Gozo Museum of Archaeology; Gran Castello Historic House; Ħaġar Qim; Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum; Lascaris War Rooms; Malta at War Museum; Malta Classic Car Museum; Malta Aviation Museum; Malta Maritime Museum; Malta Postal Museum; Mdina Cathedral Museum; Mnajdra Temples; MUŻA; National Museum of Archaeology; National Museum of Ethnography ...
Once at the museum, Edward and Sophie spent a few moments on a balcony overlooking the harbour before entering a reception attended by armed forces personnel and members of the Maltese-UK Veterans ...
The Lascaris War Rooms are an underground complex of tunnels and chambers in Valletta, Malta that housed the War Headquarters from where the defence of the island was conducted during the Second World War. The rooms were later used by NATO and are now open to the public as a museum.
The George Cross (National War Museum, Malta) The George Cross was awarded to the island of Malta by King George VI during the Siege of Malta undertaken by Italy and Germany in the early part of World War II. The island was a British colony from 1813 to 1964.
The siege of Malta in World War II was a military campaign in the Mediterranean theatre.From June 1940 to November 1942, the fight for the control of the strategically important island of the British Crown Colony of Malta pitted the air and naval forces of Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany against the Royal Air Force (RAF) and the Royal Navy.