Tirpitz Museum

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Exhibition in the Tirpitz Museum in Kåfjord

The Tirpitz Museum is a privately operated Militaria - Museum in the village of Kåfjord west of the city Alta in Norway . It contains a collection of items and pictures from the German battleship Tirpitz, as well as other militaria. The museum is not affiliated with the Alta Museum in Alta.

The wooden museum building dates from the 1880s and was originally in Lillehammer . It was dismantled there in 1946 and shipped to Alta to help rebuild the war-ravaged region, where it served as the first nursing home in Finnmark Province until 1961 .

Coordinates: 69 ° 55 '53.5 "  N , 23 ° 0' 53.9"  E

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