Well I finally got to the museum on Base Borden today and I have to say WOW. They have put alot of time and money into the bldg and displays. Not everything is set up yet or even have all their explanation cards but you can sence that this will be a great place to take your family for a visit. It is also very open for modellers and historians alike.
The vehicles are easily accessable to photograph and ogle, and all the enclosed displays are well lit and easy to view.
A new feature will be the archives. The museum is planning on allowing access to it's manuals, books, training pamphlets, news papers, photographs etc. Right now they have a libraries worth of material out on the shelves but nothing is in order. Appearently this is only about 1/10th of what they have. I spent two hours going over CMP, Grizzly, trailer, Autocar, Universal Carriers, Wasp, weapons, artillery, manuals etc. They even had a few original German manuals out on the shelves. I saw a 250 Halftrack and a armoured car manual but couldn't tell you much else..I was overwhelmed at the time. There is also unit histories, unit diaries, field reports, after action reports, etc. As I said everything is mixed up so i had to do some digging. Hell I even found a German WW2 Identity paper.
Down the road there are plans to have a copier availble to the public.
The Museum is open everyday at 10:30 and closes at 3:00 except on Mondays when it's closed.
Sean
