Troms » Tromsø War Museum

Tromsø War Museum was founded in 1993 to take care of the city's war history from early times - around 1250 - until today.

The Museum has three main parts:
A restored ex-German naval battery, equipped with two 10,5 cm cannons, searchlight, mine thrower, a subterranean command bunker has been restored and furnished with communication and optical equipment from World War II.

The “Tirpitz” exhibition - a permanent exhibit of objects, text and images showing the western world´s largest and most powerful battleship (52 600 tonnes). The vessel was a major threat to Allied convoys that carried war material to the Russians through the Atlantic and Barents seas, along with other heavy surface vessels, submarines and aircraft.

A separate room where the German retreat from the Leningrad frontier through Finland to Troms in 1944-45 is portrayed. 120 000 men spent half a year on the journey.

The rest of the museum deals with Tromsø's defence and war history, complemented with acccounts from the frontiers where young Tromsø refugees made a contribution during the war.