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Museum · Velsen · Updated on 1 November 2026.

Bunker Museum IJmuiden in Velsen

Bunker Museum IJmuiden is a museum in Velsen, North Holland. This place has a story in the app. Within 890 m you'll find a bench and a public toilet.

Bunker Museum IJmuiden in Velsen
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Story · Bunker Museum IJmuiden

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You're standing at the Bunker Museum in IJmuiden aan Zee, on the Badweg. Look around the dunes. Concrete bunkers from the Second World War are scattered all over. They belonged to the Heerenduin coastal battery, a German defence complex built along this coast.

Read the whole story in the Outdoor Pitstop app: check in at this place and it is yours (with Pro; new users are Pro for the first 4 weeks).

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5 photos from Wikimedia Commons. In the app you add your own photo when you are there.

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Yes: a public toilet at 890 m.

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