A huge hangar from the Second World War contains the story on the Danish Total Defence

The Defence- and Garrison Museum in Aalborg

Aalborg

-Transport:On the north side of the Limfjord is Nørresundby, which is connected to Aalborg by a road bridge Limfjordsbroen, an iron railway bridge Jernbanebroen over Limfjorden, as well as a motorway tunnel running under the Limfjord Limfjordstunnelen....

, Denmark, covers all components of the Danish Total Defence organization. All the exhibitions tell the story on development within the Army, the Air Force, the Home Guard, the Police, and the Rescue Services with emphasis on the period since the Second World War.

Furthermore you will find comprehensive exhibitions on the occupation period in Denmark 1940 - 1945 and on Aalborg as an important garrison city since 1779.

The museum is located in a historically interesting building in the western part of Aalborg - a huge hangar with side buildings, erected by the German occupation forces at the seaplane base - Seefliegerhorst Aalborg

Seaplane base - Seefliegerhorst Aalborg

Seefliegerhorst Aalborg was a German seaplane base at Aalborg during the occupation of Denmark 1940 to 1945At the 12th of April 1940, that means three days after the German occupation of Denmark, the first German seaplanes landed on the Limfjord on the western outskirts of Aalborg...

- they established at Aalborg in 1940.