Manx Aviation and Military Museum, Military and aviation museum in Castletown, Isle of Man.
The Manx Aviation and Military Museum is a building housing thousands of objects related to aviation and military operations. The collection includes aircraft parts, uniforms, photographs, and equipment from different military installations.
The museum opened on Remembrance Day, 11 November 2000, run by volunteers. Since 2005 it has housed the Manx Regiment's exhibits after the Old Comrades Association closed its separate museum at Tromode. It holds about 9,000 exhibits on aviation and military history on the Isle of Man.
The collection presents personal items from residents who served in local air force and home guard units. These exhibits connect the history of those military stations to the people who worked there.
The museum operates daily from May through September and on weekends during other months. Entry is free and you should allow a few hours to view most of the displays.
The Morris-Commercial C9/B self-propelled Bofors 40 mm gun on show is one of only a handful of fully restored examples. The vehicle carries its gun on a lorry chassis, a wartime conversion for mobile anti-aircraft defence. Volunteers at the museum, which opened on Remembrance Day 2000, maintain it among c. 9,000 exhibits.
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