Hel Railway Museum

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The Hel Railway Museum (Polish: Muzeum Kolei Helskich na Helu) is a new museum opened in 2013. It is a branch of the Hel Museum Complex, subordinate to the Museum of Coastal Defence. The museum is located in one of the two ammunition chambers that once belonged to the German 406 mm battery complex "Schleswig Holstein". The museum has exhibitions commemorating the history and development of Hel railways, including the broad-gauge line built during 9 months in 1921, as well as the extensive network of narrow-gauge military railways built throughout the entire interwar period, and then expanded during the German occupation. Around the bunker where the museum is located, there is an open-air exhibition showing the elements of the rolling stock saved from scrapping - both narrow-gauge and broad-gauge. The main goals of the Hel Railway Museum is to show the forgotten and underestimated part of the history of coastal defense, which was the involvement of railroaders in supporting the logistics of defense activities and bringing the history of railways on the Hel Peninsula to visitors. The museum is open every day from the end of March to the second half of October. The museum can be reached by the narrow-gauge railway running on the second narrow-gauge railway line of the Coastal Defense Museum.