Malta at War Museum
Wartime barracks museum above a vast rock-cut air raid shelter with a birth room and surgery.
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This guide to the Malta at War Museum in Birgu, across the harbour from Valletta, goes beneath an old guardhouse into a rock-cut air raid shelter the police began digging in nineteen forty. It moves between the Knights' Great Siege of fifteen sixty-five and the Axis bombing of the dockyard creek, and the families who lived underground through it. You'll also hear about a wartime film King George the Sixth set in motion, narrated by Laurence Olivier.
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