Museum Rotterdam
Second World War city museum with a long gallery of weapons, uniforms and everyday wartime objects.
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This guide to Museum Rotterdam at the Coolhaven turns on a February night in nineteen forty-three, when a British bomber came down near the city carrying a machine German engineers had never seen. It follows the scientists in Berlin who set out to understand it, and the invention that gave Rotterdam's name a second life as a codeword. Best heard just inside the long collection gallery, among the weapons and uniforms.
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